ISSUE150 电视电脑取代旅游【求拍，有拍必回】

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TOPIC: ISSUE150 - "Because of television and worldwide computer connections, people can now become familiar with a great many places that they have never visited. As a result, tourism will soon become obsolete."
WORDS: 474
TIME: 00:40:00
DATE: 2010-3-21 20:00:37

With the wide-spread prevalence of television and computer connections, we are able to know many resorts without spending time and money being there. However, television and internet cannot contain all the fun we expect in a tour that tourism will never be obsolete as the speaker asserts.

I do admit that television and computer connections provide great convenience for us in the much busier world. We don't need to spend our precious week to rush into Greece to visit the Great Cathedral. Simply visiting Youtube.com, we can see the beautiful sunset on Athens Sea from various perspectives. We don't need to search for famous resort and spend time and money ordering air tickets and hotels. Just turn on a tourism channel on television, the program guide will introduce the hottest holiday resorts to you freely! Thanks to television and internet, we are no longer limited to the time and budget whenever we want to visit other places.

However, in my observation, the tourism industry has not been obsolete because of tourism programs or online videos. On the contrary, these programs even bring more tourists to the holiday resorts for they arouse people's desire to travel. Although TV programs and online videos provide scenarios and sounds, many other attractive factors, such as the taste and interactive conversation with local people, are inevitably lost. Through TV and computer connection, we cannot know how delicious the seafood on Hawaii beach; we cannot chat with the boss of a small bar in France; we cannot feel greatness of Pyramids surrounded by hot wind in Egypt; and we cannot try fishing in an ice hole in Greenland. No matter how vivid the TV programs or online videos are, these experience and feelings cannot be perceived by the audience who wish to obtain.

Moreover, tourism in fact provides modern people with an effective way to satisfy their psychological desires, relaxing themselves, making new friends, feeling the different cultural atmosphere, all of which are unable to be obtained from TV and internet. Just imagine the happy scenario that we are immersed in the sunshine on a beach with a bottle of cold beer, what a relaxation it is! Or when we take a walk in the square of Rome and recall the romantic plot in Roman Holiday, what a psychological content we get! And when we are having conversation with new friends who tend to visit the same places as we do, what a happy time we'll have! All of the psychological satisfaction can only be acquired when we are really on a tour.

In sum, although TV and worldwide computer connections have their own merits in meeting our needs to know the outside world, they essentially lack some crucial meaning of tourism. The satisfaction from our body and heart can only be obtained when we are in a true tour.