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Unit 3 Travel. Language associated with business travel Business travel industry Travel expense claims Communication skills in business travel. Business Travel & Tourism. Business travel is a growing element of the overall travel and tourism industry.
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Unit 3 Travel Language associated with business travel Business travel industry Travel expense claims Communication skills in business travel
Business Travel & Tourism • Business travel is a growing element of the overall travel and tourism industry. • It accounts for 12% of the total revenues of the global travel and tourism industry. • The profit margin of the sector is 20%-30%. • Global business travel expenditures are US$650 billion per year. • It is worth US$11.7 billion annually in China.
Business Travel & Tourism: characteristics • High quality, high yield (earns more revenue) part of travel and tourism. • Business travel lengthens the high season for leisure tourism. (Year-round sector means more ‘shock-proofed’ against downturns or disasters.) • In recent years, spending by business visitors exceeded that of leisure visitors. • Business travel and tourism includes a wide range of events and services. (lodging, catering, transportation, sightseeing, entertainment, communication, etc. )
美国运通 AMARICAN EXPRESS • A leading global payments and travel company, providing charge and credit payment card products, and travel-related services worldwide. • One of the world's largest travel agencies. Its travel agency operations have more than 2,200 locations worldwide and its Travelers Cheque Group is the world's largest issuer of traveler's checks.
The Components of Business Travel 1. Conferences and meetings This part of the sector includes: • sales conferences • management meetings • annual general meetings • training courses • business presentations and product launches
The Components of Business Travel 2. Exhibitions and trade fairs • Trade exhibitions are for buyers and sellers in specific trade sectors. • Public exhibitions attract paying members of the public. • Trade/public exhibitions aim to attract both types of visitor. China Import and Export Fair Guangzhou Fair
The Components of Business Travel 3. Incentive travel is used by organisations to motivate their staff. 4. Corporate events include staff and client entertainment. (sporting occasions) 5. Corporate travel • may involve travel by air, rail, coach, car and sea. • can lead to individual and family travel beyond the business segment.
Travel expense claims • Work in pairs: An employee who went to Beijing on business for three days is talking with the accountant about how to claim the travel expenses: What kinds of expenses can be claimed?
Travel expense claims • BUSINESS TRAVEL EXPENSES are the costs of the trip: • 1. Transport costs 2. Lodging3. Other travel-necessitated expenses4. Incidentals5. Your own meals6. Meals & Entertainment for business associates
1. TRANSPORTATION Includes the costs of transporting you and your stuff, by any means, to, from and while at, your destination. • Air fare/train fare/bus fare (fares) • Auto/car rentals • Parking fee, road tolls • Taxis, busses, subway/metro/underground/tube, ferries • Excess baggage charges • Costs for separately sending your things -- like your mock-ups, samples, or displays
2. LODGING/ACOMMONDATION • Hotel • Motel • Inn • Hostel • Camp site fee
3. OTHER TRAVEL-NECESSITATED EXPENSES • Telephone & other electronic communication • Fees paid for security or storage of travel gear
4. INCIDENTAL EXPENSES 额外开支,杂费 • Laundry & cleaning & pressing of clothes • Tips • Fees for services such as secretarial assistance
5. MEALS FOR YOURSELF WHILE YOU’RE AWAY • When you are traveling for business you may deduct the costs for all of your own meals -- breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks.
6. MEALS & ENTERTAINMENT FOR BUSINESS ASSOCIATES: BUSINESS EXPENSE • Expenses for meals and entertainment for business associates are deducted on the standard basis. The same rules for MEALS & ENTERTAINMENT apply whether you and your business associate are dining in another city or next door to your home office.
Vocabulary • claim v./n. • claimant • reimburse vt. • reimbursement [C/U] • reimbursable • receipt (Expenses must be supported by receipts.) • allowance [C] • advance [C]
Vocabulary subsistence / per diem / M & IE(Meals & Incidental Expenses): A fixed amount of daily reimbursement given for meals and incidental expenses when traveling away from home on business.
Communication skills: Business travel • Work in pairs: Task 1: 预订机票 (信息要包含航班日期时间、舱位、机票类型、票价等)
Communication skills: Business travel • Work in pairs: Task 2:办理登机手续 (信息要包含座位、行李托运、登机牌、登机口等)
Travel by air • I'd like to make a plane reservation to Shanghai. • book a flight (to …) • China Southern Airlines has a flight on October 28th at 7∶30 in the evening. • morning/night flight; night coach • e-ticket • (fly/go/travel) first class/business class/economy class or coach • first class ticket/economy ticket • one-way (OW) trip: 单程(票) • round/returntrip (RT): 来回(票) • P22, P27
Communication skills: Business travel • Work in pairs: Task 3: 预订宾馆房间 (信息要包含房间类型、房费、付款方式等)
At a hotel • budget hotel (economy hotel) Budget hotels in Beijing are becoming increasingly popular, according to reports. Economy hotels have blossomed around Beijing's downtown area. Big chains such as the American Super 8, Shanghai-based Jinjiang Inn and Home Inn have all opened branches. (速8,锦江之星,如家,7天(7 Days Inn)) • youth hostel
Skills: Making arrangements on the telephone • p.25 • Sentence patterns
Homework • Reading 1 pp.22-23 • Reading 2 pp.26-27 • Listening p.27