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人事部三级笔译（

CATTI

）

2006.11

英译汉真题

For

all

the

natural

and

man- made

disasters

of

the

past

year,

travelers

seem

more

determined than ever to leave home.

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

destination

s hit by trouble has in some cases bounced back to a level higher than

before disaster struck.

John

Koldowski,

director

for

the

Strategic

Intelligence

Center

of

the

Bangkok-based

Pacific Asia Travel Association.

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.

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,

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.

Bali

was

hit

again

this

year by suicide bombers who killed 19 people in explosions at three restaurants.

Visitors are also on the upswing to post-tsunami Thailand, where the giant waves

killed 5,400 and left more than 5,000 missing.

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

claim

s a

28 percent market share for Sweden.

were

confident

that

Thailand

would

eventually

bounce

back

as

a

destination,

but

we

didn

think

that

this

year

it

would

come

back

even

stronger

than

last

year,

said

Joakim

Eriksson,

director

of

communication

for

My

Travel

Sweden.

were

very

surprised

because

we

really

expected

a

significant

decline.

Eriksson

said

My

Travel

now expects a 5 percent increase in visitors to both Thailand and Sri Lanka this

season

compared

with

the

same

season

last

year.

This

behavior

is

a

sharp

change

from

the

patterns

of

the

1990s,

Eriksson

said.

the

first

Gulf

war

we

saw

a

sharp

drop in travel as a whole, and the same after Sept. 11,

main impact of terrorism or disasters is a change in

destination

.

从去年所有自然和人为的灾害看，

旅 游者似乎是离家外出旅游的决心更坚定。

且不说去年

12

月亚洲毁灭性的海啸，

当就最近发生在克什 米尔地区的地震和

伦敦及巴厘岛的自杀性炸弹袭击，

以及其他的 旅游地点这样那样的事件。

众多休

闲旅游者在参观旅游目的地遇 到的麻烦在某种程度上有所回升甚至超过以前的

灾害袭击。

我们观察到旅游业的快速复苏有点儿奇怪”

，亚太旅游行业协会曼谷战 略情

报中心主任约翰·科尔多斯基说，

“

它使您想到一句格言：任何的宣传都是好宣

传

”

。

编写过去

个月的灾害统计与上年同期相比还显得过早，但是旅游行业专

家说增加的趋向已经是清楚的。

根据世界旅游及旅行协会委员会传来的消 息，

休

闲旅游人数预计今年增加约

5%

。

伦敦世界 旅游业及旅行协会委员会副总裁尤非·依布拉希姆说：

“旅游业及

旅行现在似乎在快速回升而这种回升总是伴随着类似事件的更加，

< br>比如

7

月

8

日发生在伦敦的自杀性炸弹袭击致使

56

人丧生并