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Tourism
Unit 6: Tourism
Term | Definition |
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accommodation | somewhere to live or stay, often also providing food or other services |
care home | a place where people live and are cared for when they cannot live at home or look after themselves |
cryptocurrency, virtual currency | any system of electronic money, used for buying and selling online |
destination | a place to which somebody is going, especially on a holiday |
digital divide | the fact that the level of information and communication technologies varies greatly across the world |
information and communication technologies | ICTs |
expenditure | an amount of money spent |
fintech | financial technology, the integration of technology into financial services to improve their use and delivery to consumers |
heritage | the history, traditions, buildings and objects that a country has had for many years and that are considered an important part of its character |
information society | a society where people are connected even if they are thousands of kilometres apart, and are constantly sharing a huge amount of information |
savings | the money that you keep, especially in a bank, and do not spend |
knowledge-intensive services | types of services provided by specialists in those areas |
leisure | free time |
loan | the money that a bank lends to somebody |
outsourcing | the business practice of hiring a party outside a company to perform tasks or provide services for the company |
revenue | income of a business, or the money that a government receives from taxes |
shelter | a building that provides a place to stay for people without a home, or protection for people or animals who have been badly treated |
social services | government services provided for the benefit of the community, such as education, medical care, and housing |
welfare, well-being | the general health, happiness and safety of a person or a group |