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HOW TO SUCCEED IN THE ENGLISH B1 LEVEL EXAM

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As the wishes and tastes of tourists and visitors change, tourist attractions
have to change as well. In the last twenty or thirty years, there have been
some significant developments. Natural attractions e.g. sandy beaches and
mountains- cannot change very much, but nevertheless there have been
developments, in particular there is now a growing concern to preserve the
environment and to make new buildings fit into the natural context.
Moreover, people who choose this kind of tourism are looking for a different
experience in which nature and activities in the open air are basic elements.
Therefore, development in this area must always meet the requirement of
being environmentally friendly.
Perhaps the greatest changes have been made in man-made attractions
such as museums and historic sites, which have become more interesting
and entertaining places to visit, while still maintaining their role of teaching
visitors about the past. In many of them, the aim is not just to display the
past, but to take visitors into the past in an interactive way. Traditional
festivals by definition do not change very much, but there has been a trend
to increase the number of special events and festivals as cities realize that
holding a music festival or an arts event is a good way of attracting tourists.
While in some instances existing traditional local cultural or religious events
have been revived or repackaged as tourism events, in other cases new
festivals have been invented and promoted for the singular purpose of
attracting new visitors to a city or region. The most obvious reasons for the
popularity of the local festival as a tourism promotion tool are that festivals
increase the demand for local tourism; successful festivals can help recreate
the image of a place and they can also make it visible as a tourist
destination.
Finally, the strategic placement of a festival in the local tourism calendar
can help extend the tourism season. Entertainment and leisure facilities are
always in need of change. In the developed world, the simple rectangular
swimming pool, for example, is no longer enough it has to be a water park,
with flumes, chutes, splash zones, and wave machines. Development in this
area has to be designed in order to provide fun for the tourist, who may also
be interested in visiting the main sights of the city in which the water park is
located. Consequently, when designing expansion in this tourism area it is
advisable to have a global plan.