Task 8. Decide if the following statements are true or false

1. Travel agents must find out venues in advance.

2. There are certain key points a travel agent will need to know before he actually can make the booking.

3. The most important point for an agent is the number of rela­tives accompanying delegates.

4. A small board meeting usually is held for twenty people.

5. At a sales lunch an agent may get all sales people together and show them a new product.

6. A travel agent doesn't have to decide how long a particular conference is to last.

7. The type of activities and functions can be dependent on the weather.

8. A travel agent must decide himself where the conference is go­ing to take place.

9. The delegates usually pay for themselves and the company pays only for their drinks and telephone calls.

10. By the time the participants of the conference get to lunch time they are going to be very hungry, so there is no need to make a break in the middle of the sitting for a cup of coffee.

11. All delegates usually want to be served in the conference room.

12. Not all participants want a gala dinner on the last evening of the conference.

13. The menu arrangements aren't very much determined by the time delegates have got for lunch.

14. At lunch time delegates often have only forty-five minutes to an hour, and so they'll want a fast buffet service where they can have as much or as little as they want.

15. If some of participants are very important people they need to be placed into suites.

Task 9. Summarize the text in some 15 – 20 sentences and get ready to present your

Summary orally.

Task 10. A travel agent is talking to a client about business travel. Fill in the blanks using a

Word from column A and a word from column B. The first one has been done for

You.

‘I would certainly recommend East American Airlines if you’re going to be doing a lot of travelling in the States – they like to make things easy. For a start, they offer a free chauffeur-driven (1) limousine service to take you to the airport and to pick you up the other end, and they have an (2) ___ ___ solely for the use of passengers in Business Class, so you only have to get there ten minutes before the flight. What’s more, you also have the chance of an (3) ___ ___ to First Class if there are any free seats. The planes are very comfortable – the seats have lots of (4) ___ ___ so you don’t feel cramped, and they offer a good range of meals on the menu. On top of that there is an air miles (5) ___ ___, so that if you fly with them regularly, you can quickly earn enough points for a free flight.

In Georgia, they have an arrangement with the Eastern Traveller’s Inn, which has been specially built to meet the needs of the business traveller. It’s in a good area of town, and the rooms are very nice. They all have a (6) ___ ___ with snacks as well as drinks, and they come with a (7) ___ ___ so that you can get your e-mail from a portable PC, and they also have a (8) ___ ___ so that you can send and receive other documents. If you want to give a small presentation, you can hire one of the (9) ___ ___ which can hold up to twenty people, but if you’re planning something big, like a product launch for example, you can hire the (10) ___ ___, which can seat over 1,000. It’s very good value, but for regular guests they also offer a (11) ___ ___ of about thirty per cent.’