Issue150 【victor】第十一次作业 by gyyx

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I150"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."

2007-06-27

The author’s statement that tourism will soon become obsolete due to people’s more familiar with a lot of places with the help of television and computer, could not get in accordance with my opinion, that is, in this era of television and worldwide computer connections making us familiar with so many places, tourism will become if not more popular, as popular as before, not obsolete.

Obviously, the invention of television has brought us too much convenience all over our life, and the programs television transmits involve in all respects of our life. Tourism programs, one of the most popular programs, have gain a quantity audience, not only for its informativeness and interestedness, but also for it could satisfy persons’ dream to tour a place he or she could not have time and chance to visit. We could look no further than Discovery, as a prefect example. Discovery Channel, a cable and satellite TV channel distributed by Discovery Communications, provides non-fiction variety programming focused primarily on the themes of popular science, history, and knowledge about the world. As a channel who offers 29 network brands in 33 languages, with its popular programming including Shark Week and Deadliest Catch,   Discovery Channel bring a lot of amazing journey to its audience and the places it involves have sired the audience’s interests to visit some day. In the meanwhile, different from television programs, computer connects us with the places out of our reach in a more interactive way, in which we could get a tour online to the place decided all by ourselves. However, either of these two tools, does help us to get a view of the places we interested, and we could become more familiar with a lot of places.

But, in fact, these tours online or through television programs did bring little influence to tourism. On the contrary, the television programs and the online tour make people in a real tour to the places, and the convenience the technology introduce has make worldwide tour more available and popular. The view we see on TV and the photo we see online give us more information than the introduce report, and let us decide more intellect to choose a place we really interested in. As a result, many a place has advertised on TV and plan their own tour program, even a lot of them has build a website tour to introduce their place better. You may surf the internet and see more TV programs if you don’t agree with me. Moreover, with the development of standard of life, people could spent more time and money on tour, which brings more vigor to tourism.
As a conclusion, TV and computer connections could propagandize the places, rather than make these places losing their appeal, therefore create a boom in tourism, rather than a obsolete time.