4 Reading Read the text about one aspect of tourism today. Some parts are missing. Choose the correct part (A–M) for each gap (1–10). There are two extra parts that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 1 Multiple matching (sentence parts) When does tourism become unethical? As humans, we move. We travel; we always have. (0) ; we migrated from Africa thousands of years ago, walking out of the savannah to the rest of the world. (1) of the Western world’s fastest-growing industries. We leave home to climb mountains and trek through rainforests, to dance in Cuba, swim the Hellespont, barter in a souk or lie on a beach. In his book The Art of Travel, the philosopher Alain de Botton contemplates the underlying reasons for travel. (2) , he says, for he believes that “there are inner transitions we can’t properly cement without a change of locations.” Change is also a key motivator in the mind of the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin. “Change of fashion, food, love and landscape,” he wrote. “We need them as the air we breathe.” (3) , for pleasure, for enlightenment; to ease the tedium of daily routine and satisfy the imaginings of curious minds. We travel to shake up our souls and to placate an atavistic restlessness within us. Ernesto Che Guevara thought that we simply “travel just to travel.” (4) ; travellers now have the opportunity to roam further, higher and wilder than before. This means that they risk coming into contact with remote indigenous communities, for the world’s remote corners – the green depths of the Amazon basin or the highlands of West Papua – are often the lands and homes of tribal peoples. Their homelands sustain them physically and spiritually, and they understand them intimately. The Yanomami people who live deep in the Brazilian Amazon know the streams and rapids of the rainforest in the same way the Inuit understand the sea-ice of the Canadian Arctic. And this is where the problems with this kind of travel start because it can simply be dangerous for both tourists and little-contacted tribal peoples to meet. (5) and tourists can transmit infectious diseases to which little-contacted peoples have no immunity. Curiosity in other cultures is natural. (6) by travelling with ethically-run eco-tourism companies. But the line between ethical and non-ethical is extremely fine. So where does it lie? Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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