ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION FOR TOURISM

This book presents an in-depth exploration of tourism through a structured reading approach designed to strengthen learners’ comprehension skills and mastery of technical vocabulary. It provides clear learning objectives, essential reading theories, and guided strategies such as skimming, scanning, predicting content, and summarizing information. The material covers major themes in tourism, including types of tourism, travel agencies, tourist destinations, accommodation, transportation, marketing, and tourist behavior. Through descriptive, expository, persuasive, and functional texts, readers are trained to follow the flow of information, analyze text structures, identify main ideas, and interpret data commonly found in the tourism field.

In addition to theoretical explanations, this book provides various sample texts, vocabulary-building sections, and practical exercises that help learners apply their understanding in real tourism contexts. The inclusion of sustainable and responsible tourism encourages readers to develop critical awareness of environmental and ethical issues that shape the global tourism industry. The integrated set of texts throughout the material reinforces the use of reading strategies across diverse content. As a complete learning resource, this book supports readers in strengthening their reading proficiency, expanding tourism-related vocabulary, and gaining deeper insight into the dynamics of the tourism sector.