Learn English Vocabulary for Tourism: resort, cruise, charter, all-inclusive…

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Hi, welcome to www.engvid.com . I'm Adam.
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In today's video, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about tourism and a little bit
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of the tourism words you need to plan your next vacation.
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Now, we're going to focus mostly on group tours, not so much solo travelling.
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I'll make a different video for that, but we want to look at the different types of
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tours you can take and how you're going to get there, okay?
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So, we're going to start with the types of tourist destinations and tourist vacation
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styles you can enjoy.
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The most common vacation style, for example, people in Canada, especially in the winter,
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they like to go down south to Cuba, Florida, Mexico, all these hot areas.
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And they like to stay on a resort.
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Now, a resort is usually a gated place or a closed off community where there're hotels
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and there's restaurants and there's a beach.
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And people don't really have to worry about anything.
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They don't have to go anywhere.
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Everything they need is right there at the hotel.
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All the amenities are available.
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Now, amenities are like spa and restaurant and gym and a masseuse if they need a message.
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All these things are there.
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They don't have to travel too far.
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They go, relax, stay a week, go home back to their every day lives.
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Now, very similar to a resort vacation is a cruise vacation.
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This is on a big ship, but these days, these cruise ships.
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They're just - cruse ship, just add the "ship" to it - cruise ships are called floating cities,
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because they are so huge and basically everything that you need, everything that you have at
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home is available on the ship, including all the amenities plus some.
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They have many restaurants, they have casinos, they have movie theaters, they have play areas
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for the kids, if you're taking your kids.
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They have all kinds of things to keep you busy, because you're basically in the middle
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of the ocean.
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There's really nowhere to go sightseeing.
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You just stay on the boat, relax.
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They do make stops at different points along the way.
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So, you can go out for the day, do a little bit of shopping, get a little bit of culture,
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get back to the boat, back to the sea or ocean, and keep going.
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Again, very easy type of vacation and very relaxing for most people.
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Now, again, you can go a packaged tour or you can just buy a flight somewhere and do
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your own thing.
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But a lot of people prefer a packaged tour.
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A packaged tour basically packages a few things together.
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Flight, hotel, car are the most common components of a package.
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Flight and hotel really being the most common, okay?
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Now, resorts and cruise ships usually have two options.
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They are all inclusive or a la carte.
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I'm not sure which way the accent goes, I think it's this way.
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So, all inclusive means you make one payment, you pay for the package, and you don't have
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to spend any more money the whole vacation, unless you want to, of course.
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Right?
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All inclusive includes all your meals, all your drinks, all the facilities and amenities
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in the hotel or the resort or the cruise ship, right?
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Now, if you go outside of the resort and you want to go visit the local areas, then you
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pay for the taxi, you pay for any souvenirs you buy.
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If you eat in the town, you pay for your meal.
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But on the resort, you don't have to pay for anything.
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You leave your wallet in your room, go around, do anything you want and enjoy it.
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A la carte means you pay - usually you pay for the flight and hotel and then all meals,
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you pay for separately.
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All drinks, you pay for separately.
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All excursions, all activities you pay for separately, right?
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As you want them.
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Now, if you want to know more about a la carte, you can see my lesson about French vocabulary
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in every day use in English.
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Now, most people like to go on group tours.
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They like to buy packages with groups because A - it's a little bit cheaper than doing it
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by yourself and B - they get to meet new people.
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A lot of people feel safer, okay, safety in numbers.
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If that works for you, great.
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If not, that's fine.
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Some people don't like group tours because they're forced to follow the schedule of the
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tour.
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If you like it, that's fine.
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If you don't like it, that's fine.
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And these are usually guided tours.
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So, group tours are usually guided.
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There's a tour guide that goes with the group, takes them to all the different sightseeing
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spots.
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Maybe gives a little bit of a history or a little bit of education about the place and
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then they go to the next one.
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A lot of people, and this is becoming more and more popular these days, they like to
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go on themed tours.
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There's a particular theme to it.
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Ecotours or Green Tours.
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Basically, you're going someplace where they take care of the environment, okay?
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So, you're going to like, a beach, but there's no - they didn't bring in extra equipment.
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They didn't bring in extra materials to build hotels.
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They build it from wood or they build it from the local materials that are available without
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disturbing the ecosystem, okay?
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So, if you're the type of person who wants to protect the environment, but you also want
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to go on vacation, you can do both on these ecotours, okay?
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Some people like to go on adventure tours.
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Maybe you want to go skydiving.
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Maybe you want to go bungee jumping or skiing down a mountain.
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Whatever is your idea of an adventure, there are tours that are geared for that.
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Okay?
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"Geared toward that" is more common.
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It means everything about this tour is to basically engage in that adventure activity.
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Skiing, skydiving, whatever you like.
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Some people go on medical tours.
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Now, what does this mean?
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Do they go visit hospitals?
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No - well, yes and no.
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Okay?
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Basically, some people need a medical treatment and some of these treatments are very, very
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expensive.
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So, they go to another country where it's much cheaper and while they're there, they
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also have a little vacation.
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So, for example, when I lived in Japan, it was much cheaper to go to a dentist in Thailand
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than in Japan.
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So, what I did, I would fly to Thailand, I would go to the dentist, then I'd spend a
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few days on a beach somewhere and relax.
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I got my medical tour and my - my medical needs taken care of and my vacation at the
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same time.
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And culinary tours.
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Some people want to try different foods from different parts of the world.
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So, they go on tours where they're taken to all the different regions of a place to taste
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the different foods.
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Or a wine tour is also very common.
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For example, in the States, a lot of people go to Napa Valley and then they go to all
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the different wineries and try the wine and eat their local dishes and they basically
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get a tour of the whole area.
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Now, most of these tours, and generally speaking about tourism, you're going to have an itinerary
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which is basically a plan.
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You're going to arrive here, you're going to do this, you're going to get on the bus,
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you're going to go here, you're going to look around, you're going to have lunch.
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Next stop, etc., etc.
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And itineraries are full of excursions.
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Excursions, sorry a difficult word, basically means activities.
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It means outings is another expression you might hear.
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Outings.
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Basically, you're going out to do something.
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You're going sightseeing someplace.
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Sightseeing tours are, again, very common with group tours, guided tours, all these
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types of tours.
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So, excursions - activities.
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And a lot of these tours are going to involve going to see different attractions.
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It could be a sightseeing spot or a famous place or a museum or an art gallery or historical
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spot, etc.
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These are all attractions because they attract visitors - curious people.
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Now, we're also going to talk about flights.
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How you're going to all these tourist destinations.
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Now, you can buy discount or bargain flights.
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These are usually much cheaper.
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Sometimes they're just like, leftover seats.
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An airline has sold maybe 80% or 90% of the seats, they have 10% left.
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They offer them at a very discounted price so they can fill the plane.
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They're also called bargain tickets.
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You have to be very careful about these, because these are generally nonrefundable.
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It means once you buy the ticket, that's it.
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If you cancel, too bad.
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You don't get your money back unless you bought cancellation insurance.
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Now, because these are discount tickets, the insurance usually costs a bit more.
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That's how they make their money again.
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But if you don't buy the cancellation insurance and you cancel the flight, you don't get your
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money back.
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That's why they're so cheap, okay?
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And another type of flight is last-minute.
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Again, same idea.
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It's a week before you want to go.
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The airlines still have empty seats.
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They just want to have a full plane, so they give this seat very, very cheap because it's
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the last minute.
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They're hoping somebody can go next week and they get rid of those.
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Charter flights.
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This is when a company basically hires or rents a full plane and then sells the tickets.
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So, because they buy all the tickets on the plane, they get a group rate for the flight.
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The tickets are cheaper and then they sell them to people.
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Again, it's a little bit discounted, but for the company that does it, it's a very good
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profit.
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Now, when you're buying tickets, keep in mind there are peak season, low season, and off-season.
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Low season and off-season essentially mean the same thing.
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Peak season means the busiest time of the year for people to go to this particular place.
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So, if you're buying tickets at peak season, you're paying anywhere from 50 to 80 to even
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100 percent more than you would at off-season.
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Now, again, the reason it's called off-season is because maybe the weather conditions aren't
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good, so people don't like to go.
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But if you don't mind, you can travel very cheaply around the world, if you go on off-seasons.
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And again, group rate.
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When you buy - many people together buy tickets or anything, excursions, it's always cheaper.
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Now, some people like to fly on points.
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Most people have a point card.
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When you go fly, you can collect points for every ticket you buy.
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When you have enough points, you can change or turn those points into flight tickets.
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So, a lot of people fly on points.
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Now, these days, again in Canada, you can go to the supermarket and use your AirMiles
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card.
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This is actually a registered trademark, but AirMiles or AeroPlan or all kinds of different
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point cards.
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Every time you shop, you get points.
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When you have enough points, you can use them to get a free flight ticket.
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Now, if you're going to fly on points, keep in mind there is something called blackout
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dates.
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These are particular dates that the airline will not let you use the points to fly with.
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Again, this is usually during peak season.
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They're not going to give away free tickets because they can make a lot of money on selling
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tickets.
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So, look out for blackout dates.
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Basically, they take the calendar and they black it out.
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Not available, okay?
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Now, again, all of this is based on people going to a relaxing vacation.
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Usually they're staying at like a star hotel or a starred hotel.
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One star, two star, three star or a bed and breakfast.
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If you want to know more about hotels, I have a lesson about hotels that you can check out.
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The link is in the description box.
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But again, these are tourists.
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This is tourism.
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If you want to go travelling, this is a little bit of a different idea.
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Solo travelers need to know different words, need to know different ideas.
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But again, I'll make a separate video about that.
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And don't forget to subscribe to my channel.
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You can come back and watch that video when it comes on.
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But for now, if you have any questions about this lesson, please go to www.engvid.com and
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ask me there in the comment section.
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There's also a quiz to make sure you understand all this new vocabulary.
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And again, if you like the video - and even if you want to just come back and watch the
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travel video, subscribe to my channel and you will find out about that when it does
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come up, okay?
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Until then, enjoy your English learning and I'll see you again soon.
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Bye.
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