English · Chapter 44
Study notes aligned to the official NEB syllabus.
Travel and Tourism is a Language Development unit of the Grade 11 Compulsory English textbook. Its theme is movement away from home: why people go, what they look for, and what their arrival does to the place that receives them. The unit trains comprehension on a reading text about travel, builds the vocabulary of the tourist industry, teaches the prepositions of place, time and movement with the articles used before place names, and puts both to work in descriptive and persuasive tasks. The theme is close to home, since Nepal is known abroad as a Himalayan destination and tourism is one of its major earners of foreign currency. NEB questions reward accurate vocabulary, a balanced account of the benefits and the costs of tourism, and a position argued with reasons and examples.
Confirm the exact title and author of this unit's reading text against your own copy of the textbook, because these notes develop the substance the unit's reading treats rather than a particular title.
Travel is as old as need: people have always moved to trade, to find work, to make a pilgrimage, or to escape a famine or a war. Tourism is narrower and much newer. It is travel undertaken for pleasure, curiosity or rest, organised as an industry, with transport, accommodation, guides, permits and insurance arranged around the traveller. A tourist buys an arranged experience; a traveller may simply be going somewhere.
What draws a visitor is usually something that cannot be had at home: high mountains, wildlife, an old city or a place of pilgrimage. Nepal holds an unusual amount of it in a small area. Trekkers walk the trails of the Annapurna and Everest regions, expeditions come for the high peaks, and the national parks of the lowland Terai draw visitors for their wildlife. Lumbini, venerated as the birthplace of the Buddha, receives pilgrims from across Asia, and the durbar squares of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur hold palaces, courtyards and carved wooden temples within walking distance of one another.