Collocations for Travel Experiences, Guest Service and Responsible Tourism
DISCOVER • WELCOME • RESPECT • TRAVEL RESPONSIBLY
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A memorable trip depends on more than attractive sights: reliable information, thoughtful hospitality and respect for local communities can make tourism beneficial for visitors and destinations alike.
Responsible travel brings curiosity together with care: learn local customs, support local businesses and leave the places you visit in good condition.
Explore the readingLexiLink · Tourism, Hospitality and Travel B2–C1 80 minutes
Complete the tasks and investigate travel collocations in SkELL. Then recommend realistic choices that improve visitors’ experiences without harming local communities.
Teacher-facing timing plan. The sequence moves from lexical noticing and IELTS-style reading to contextual practice, SkELL verification and productive use.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to use B2+–C1 collocations for tourism, hospitality and travel, distinguish close meanings, test language hypotheses with SkELL, and use expressions accurately in context.
Study each expression, its meaning and the synonyms that may fit a similar context. Compare the alternatives carefully: words may be close in meaning without being interchangeable in every sentence.
Read the text carefully or listen to it. Target collocations are shown in bold. The case study and its figures are fictional and created for learning purposes.
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A. On 5 February 2024, the fictional coastal town of Bellhaven introduced a visitor-management plan after its annual visitor numbers reached 640,000. Tourism officer Sofia Alvarez said the goal was not to discourage travel, but to manage busy periods and protect the town’s heritage site and waterfront. The council asked local businesses to provide clearer information before the summer peak season.
B. Hotel manager Karim Patel reported that many guests appreciated receiving a booking confirmation with transport information and check-in times. A survey of 350 visitors in May found that 81% rated staff customer service positively, while 24% had experienced a travel disruption. The survey did not include every accommodation provider, so the council warned that the results should not be treated as a complete picture of the hospitality sector.
C. The town’s new visitor guide offered a two-day travel itinerary with a guided excursion to a cultural landmark, a market serving local cuisine and a scenic route through the nearby hills. Residents asked that tours avoid narrow streets during school arrival times. Guide organiser Noor Hassan said small groups could improve guest satisfaction while giving visitors more time to learn about local history.
D. To reduce pressure on the waterfront, Bellhaven promoted off-season travel and added an electric shuttle as an example of eco-friendly transport. The council’s 18 October 2024 report said bus use rose by 16% between September and October. It also noted that tourist expenditure varied widely by travel style, and that more data were needed to assess how spending reached family-run businesses.
E. The town’s travel advice now recommends checking room availability, considering travel insurance and following local guidance when visiting protected areas. On 12 March 2025, the council agreed to review responsible tourism measures after another full season. It said visitor numbers alone would not show whether tourism was successful; resident feedback, environmental quality and the survival of local businesses also mattered.
Decide whether each statement agrees with the passage. Choose TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN.
Match each statement to paragraph A–E. Use each paragraph once.
Choose the best answer according to the passage.
Complete each expression using its meaning and the context; choose the word that makes a natural collocation.
Choose the missing word in each collocation. Read the whole expression, not just the blank.
Use sentence meaning and grammar to select a collocation that fits the context.
Choose the collocation that best fits the situation about tourism, hospitality and travel, cultural identity or cooperation. Use the contextual meaning to decide; do not classify parts of speech.
Choose the expression that fits the situation and the meaning of the sentence.
Open SkELL. Search travel itinerary, guest satisfaction, responsible tourism and local cuisine in Word Sketch. Compare authentic examples and meanings. Record two collocations, write an original sentence for each, add related expressions and explain how corpus evidence confirmed or changed your first hypothesis.
Three options in each question express similar meanings. Choose the one collocation that does NOT belong to the synonym group. All options are natural expressions; the odd one out is different in meaning.
Choose the collocation that matches the meaning described. All options are natural English expressions; use meaning rather than parts of speech.
These tests become progressively harder: recognise collocations, choose expressions in context, compare close meanings, and evaluate realistic situations involving tourism, hospitality and travel. The practice score is reported separately from the 115-point lesson total.
Write at least 100 words advising a visitor how to plan a rewarding and responsible trip. Use at least eight target collocations and explain your recommendations. The 100-word target is recommended for full writing credit, but unfinished work can still be submitted.
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Your name and group from the student profile above, your SkELL collocations and original sentences, related words, corpus notes, writing paragraph and available exercise scores will be collected in the teacher's spreadsheet.
Auto-scored sections: reading MCQ, True/False, paragraph matching, Matching, Sentence Completion, Odd One Out, Find the Collocate, Multiple Choice, Lexical Cloze and Collocation Repair (100 points total). SkELL cluster (10) and productive writing (5) are teacher-scored. Maximum lesson total: 115 points. The 24-point Progressive Lexical Test is submitted as a separate practice result and is not added to the lesson total.
Vocabulary bank informed by the Lesson 25 topic, “Tourism, Hospitality and Travel,” in the supplied LexiLink lesson collection. Definitions, reading and interactive exercises were adapted or written for LexiLink.
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