ISSUE150 [Victors小组]第十一次作业 by jennetrj

jennetrjUID: 2275453

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: 616          TIME: 00:55:00          DATE: 2007-6-25 14:04:46

For the tremendous development of techniques, like the invention of television in mid of 20th century and late 1990's thriving of Internet, people could easily get approach to any places they long for. Photographs, documentations and videos about every corner of the world are provided by media, websites and stores just around the block. Even though an individual is handicapped and has to stay at home, it is possible for him or her to surfing the Internet and gets views of the scenes he has ever dreamed of. Therefore, the speaker's claim represents the advantages we could get from the development of technology. However, in my point of view, the allegation that tourism will soon be obsolete seems to be a partial perspective which overlooks the positive influence on tourism brought by the new technology.

Everybody with access to going online or capable of receiving signals from media experiences field trips with the help of multi-media apparatus or led by the program hosts. Television programs and Internet seem to be the unlimited resources for wanderlusts. We have World Trip program continuously broadcasted on the Discovery Channel every week, or even at any time we can switch on our laptop to start the new journey to the places we never thought to visit. No one would argue that we have the smaller world in the new age of communication and high-tech. Such technology enables us to fly out of space, dive into the ocean canyon and the third polar of the planet even without a guide.

However, the technique not only broadens our spectrum, but also triggers our deeply innate tendency to make exploration. It's not unusual to meet guys holding sacks and tour-books downloaded from the Internet at the famous scene, or never would aboriginals be surprised to accommodate strangers coming from another side of the world. Television programs, websites and any brochures of the spot attract people to take on luggage to enjoy visiting such marvelous places.  Let alone those well-known sight, like Paris, Great Wall and the Pyramids, it is not difficult to find hikers in some unexploited areas, or pilgrims at the spot which is thought to be the shrine of a saint. According to the United Nations statistics, about 32% of the tourism revenues worldwide attributes to the broad advertisements performing on television and tour websites on the Internet in last decade. Therefore, the allegation that tourism would be obsolete under the influence of easy sight-seeing on television and worldwide computer connections is self controversial.

Although tourism would get more benefits from such wide broadcasting, especially attract more wanderlusts, the negative information concerning about the services, security issues would also be transmitted much faster than ever. Take the tsunami that happened in India Ocean on the day next to the Christmas, 2004 for example, horrible scenes recorded by the bystander of the catastrophe were soon transmitted by the news broadcasting and the Internet. For that matter, the tourism in countries along Indian Ocean dropped about one third in the following year, according to the statistics from the World Tourism Organization. Wide broadcast of the information of any aspects of tourism by television and Internet could bring both effects on it, so those new developed technologies serve as the two-side sword for tourism, which could not be overlooked.

In my final analysis, tourism gets more advantages from the broad cast carried on television and Internet, although some negative information might impair a little. Nevertheless, being capable to any place we'd like to visit is never the prelude for tourism ongoing. If we do our best to modify the services, ensure the security, tourism will inevitably get another revive with the help of technology.

solartorchUID: 2244205

For the tremendous development of techniques, like the invention of television in mid of 20th century and late 1990's thriving of Internet, people could easily get approach to any places they long for. Photographs, documentations and videos about every corner of the world are provided by media, websites and stores just around the block. Even though an individual is handicapped and has to stay at home, it is possible for him or her to surfing the Internet and gets views of the scenes he has ever dreamed of. Therefore, the speaker's claim represents the advantages we could get from the development of technology. However, in my point of view, the allegation that tourism will soon be obsolete seems to be a partial perspective which overlooks the positive influence on tourism brought by the new technology.

Everybody with access to going online or capable of receiving signals from media experiences field trips with the help of multi-media apparatus or led by the program hosts. Television programs and Internet seem to be the unlimited resources for wanderlusts. We have World Trip program continuously broadcasted on the Discovery Channel every week, or even at any time we can switch on our laptop to start the new journey to the places we never thought to visit. No one would argue that we have the smaller world in the new age of communication and high-tech. Such technology enables us to fly out of space, dive into the ocean canyon and the third polar of the planet even without a guide.

However, the technique not only broadens our spectrum, but also triggers our deeply innate tendency to make exploration. It's not unusual to meet guys holding sacks and tour-books downloaded from the Internet at the famous scene, or never would aboriginals be surprised to accommodate strangers coming from another side of the world. Television programs, websites and any brochures of the spot attract people to take on luggage to enjoy visiting such marvelous places.  Let alone those well-known sight, like Paris, Great Wall and the Pyramids, it is not difficult to find hikers in some unexploited areas, or pilgrims at the spot which is thought to be the shrine of a saint. According to the United Nations statistics, about 32% of the tourism revenues worldwide attributes to the broad advertisements performing on television and tour websites on the Internet in last decade. Therefore, the allegation that tourism would be obsolete under the influence of easy sight-seeing on television and worldwide computer connections is self controversial.

Although tourism would get more benefits from such wide broadcasting, especially attract more wanderlusts, the negative information concerning about the services, security issues would also be transmitted much faster than ever. Take the tsunami that happened in India Ocean on the day next to the Christmas, 2004 for example, horrible scenes recorded by the bystander of the catastrophe were soon transmitted by the news broadcasting and the Internet. For that matter, the tourism in countries along Indian Ocean dropped about one third in the following year, according to the statistics from the World Tourism Organization. Wide broadcast of the information of any aspects of tourism by television and Internet could bring both effects on it, so those new developed technologies serve as the two-side sword for tourism, which could not be overlooked. 觉得这段稍稍有点不够有说服力，比如negative information concerning about services其实并不是对旅游的一个负面影响，反而能促进。

In my final analysis, tourism gets more advantages from the broad cast carried on television and Internet, although some negative information might impair a little. Nevertheless, being capable to any place we'd like to visit is never the prelude for tourism ongoing. If we do our best to modify the services, ensure the security, tourism will inevitably get another revive with the help of technology.

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