Exercise 2. Listen to a small talk about “ Tourism” and decide if the following sentences are True or False.

 

Question 1. Tourism kept unchanged a lot over the past few decades.

Question 2. Tourism probably didn’t exist fifteen years ago.

Question 3. Tourism started in the late 60s and early 70s when airplane travel became cheap.

Question 4. Tourism today is a multi-billion-dollar industry.

Question 5. The number of tourists is decreasing sharply.

While many sights in Viet Nam are hardly (1)

, some farmers in the Mekong Delta have attracted hundreds of foreign vistors to their ecological gardens. Ba Duc, O Hau and Tien Giang province are one example. Before 2000, no visitors spent more than 15 minutes at his house, and very few tourists returned for a second visit. Then Ba Duc had an idea. He thought if tourists had

to do while visiting his house, they would stay longer. He then turned his 2.5-hectare farm into an (3)

, with a fish pond where tourists can go fishing. His wife started cooking (4)

for the visitors and even teaching them how to cook local specialities. At present, Ba Duc welcomes around (5)

a day.

Similarly, Tu Binh of Vinh Long Province turned his 2.1-hectare fish pond into an (6)

in 2005. Tourists can now catch fish in the pond, but then they have to release the small ones (7)

the pond. He also kept several (8)

and raised some African ostriches. Bird watching and ostrich riding became very (9)

for tourists to enjoy on his farm. Tu Binh now runs a very successful (10)

with around 300 visitors every day.