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Never mind the tsunami devastation in Asia last December, the recent earthquake in Kashmir or the suicide bombings this year in
Never mind the tsunami devastation in Asia last December, the recent earthquake in Kashmir or the suicide bombings this year in
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2015-02-12
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问题
Never mind the tsunami devastation in Asia last December, the recent earthquake in Kashmir or the suicide bombings this year in London and Bali, among other places on or off the tourist trail. The number of leisure travelers visiting tourist destinations hit by trouble has in some cases bounced back to a level higher than before disaster struck.
"This new fast recovery of tourism we are observing is kind of strange," said John Koldowski, director for the Strategic Intelligence Center of the Bangkok-based Pacific Asia Travel Association. "It makes you think about the adage that any publicity is good publicity."
It is still too soon to compile year-on-year statistics for the disasters of the past 12 months, but travel industry experts say that the broad trends are already clear. Leisure travel is expected to increase by nearly 5 percent this year, according to the World Tourism and Travel Council.
"Tourism and travel now seem to bounce back faster and higher each time there is an event of this sort," said Ufi Ibrahim, vice president of the London-based World Tourism and Travel Council. For London, where suicide bombers killed 56 and wounded 700 on July 8, she said, "It was almost as if people who stayed away after the bomb attack then decided to come back twice."
Early indicators show that the same holds true for other disaster-struck destinations. Statistics compiled by the Pacific Asia Travel Association, for example, show that monthly visitor arrivals in Sri Lanka, where the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami left more than 30,000 people dead or missing, were higher than one year earlier for every month from March through August of this year.
A case commonly cited by travel professionals as an early example of the trend is Bali, where 202 people were killed in bombings targeting Western tourists in October 2002. Visitor arrivals plunged to 993,000 for the year after the bombing, but bounced back to 1.46 million in 2004, a level higher than the two years before the bomb, according to the Pacific Asia Travel Association.
Even among Australians, who suffered the worst casualties in the Bali bombings, the number of Bali-bound visitors bounced back within two years to the highest level since 1998, according the Pacific Asia Travel Association.
Although the tsunami killed more than 500 Swedes on the Thai resort island of Phuket, the largest number of any foreign nationality to die, Swedes are returning to the island in larger numbers than last year, according to My Travel Sweden, a Stockholm-based group that sends 600,000 tourists overseas annually and claims a 28 percent market share for Sweden.
Which of the following is true in Bali bombing’s case?
选项
A、Visitors to Bali bounced back immediately after the bombings.
B、The Swedes who died in the bombings outnumber any other nationalities.
C、Just in 2 years, the number of Australian visitors to Bali has reached its peak.
D、Not all the victims in the bombings are westerners.
答案
D
解析
属事实细节题。根据题干的关键词“Bali”迅速定位到文章第七段。根据选项A中的表述迅速定位到第七段第二句,该句谈到在发生爆炸事件之后,前往巴厘岛旅游的人数降到了99.3万人,而此后又慢慢攀升的,故选项A错误。根据选项B中的关键词“Swedes”迅速定位到第九段,瑞典人是在泰国海啸中出现的,故选项B错误。根据选项C中的关键词“Australian”迅速定位到第七段,选项C忽略了原文的关键词“since 1998”,故选项C错误。文章在第七段第一句中提到巴厘岛爆炸事件针对的是西方人,但在这次事件中伤亡的人并不一定都是西方人,故选项D符合题意,为正确答案。
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