IELTS Writing Task 2 Travel and tourism Essay Topics

Position

Disagree that a higher fare is a fair way to cut flights. It cuts the trip to see family before it cuts the third holiday of a richer passenger, unless the tax is aimed at frequent flyers rather than at every seat.

Body paragraph 1

Point

A flat rise in fares rations by income, and the trips people drop first are not the most frivolous.

Explanation

A worker who flies once a year to a parent will leave the route before a passenger who flies monthly for a short break and barely notices the tax. If the aim is fewer flights, the flat fare hits the wrong boarding pass. The climate case is real. This instrument does not match it.

Example

A care worker who stopped an annual visit home after a flat departure tax, while a monthly city-break ticket on the same plane stayed affordable for a higher salary.

Body paragraph 2

Point

A levy that rises with the number of flights a person takes in a year targets the repeat journey and leaves the rare one intact.

Explanation

That is the extent of agreement: price can be a tool if it is aimed. Frequent-flyer taxes, and an end to tax breaks that make the tenth flight cheaper than the first, change behaviour where the emissions actually pile up. A sermon about staying home does not.

Example

A tax band that left a single annual return untouched and rose sharply on the fifth return bought by the same passenger in that year.

Conclusion

Cut frequent flying with a rising levy. Do not use a flat fare rise and call it an environmental policy.

Position

Visitors should adapt to rules about dress, noise and sacred places. Towns should adapt only in the practical layer — language on a sign, a card machine — and should not rebuild the custom to match a brochure.

Body paragraph 1

Point

A guest who refuses a dress code or a quiet hour is treating a place of residence as a hired backdrop.

Explanation

The adapt-yourself view is about costs the resident cannot leave. Shoulders in a shrine, a stag group in a small square at midnight, drones over a funeral: these are not cultural exchange. They are a refusal to be a guest. The rule was there before the flight.

Example

A shrine that required covered shoulders, where staff spent the day handing out scarves to visitors who had read the rule and decided it was optional.

Body paragraph 2

Point

Hosts who change the menu, the calendar and the closing time until the town matches the advert have adapted themselves out of a place.

Explanation

Some practical adaptation is sense. A clear sign in two languages and a way to pay are not a betrayal. Moving the festival to suit a coach timetable, or banning a local food because a review site disliked it, is the other view gone too far. The resident is then the extra in someone else’s holiday.

Example

A harbour town that moved a mourning procession off the main street in August because coaches could not turn.

Conclusion

Guests follow the rules that protect the place. Hosts translate and take payment. Neither side should rewrite the custom to suit a weekend.

Position

Tourism can pay wages in a place with no other employer. Dependence makes the winter, and a bad year, into an unemployment the town cannot insure.

Body paragraph 1

Point

Visitors buy meals, beds and guiding from people who would otherwise leave to find a wage.

Explanation

The advantage is a reason to stay. A coastal town with a closed cannery may have scenery and no payroll. Hotels and boat trips turn the scenery into rent and a Saturday job for a student. Without that, the young go and the services thin further.

Example

A boat-trip cooperative that employed twelve people from May to September, in a town whose fish plant had shut.

Body paragraph 2

Point

Those twelve are unemployed in November, and a flood year or a travel scare removes the May jobs as well.

Explanation

A single industry with a short season cannot fund a stable rent. Landlords price the August week and the local nurse cannot bid. The disadvantage is not the existence of guests. It is a labour market with one customer and a housing market priced for that customer’s holiday.

Example

A winter where the hotels were dark, the boat staff were on a benefit, and a nurse could not rent because August lets had set the year’s price.

Conclusion

Tourism as an employer is an advantage. Tourism as the only employer is a seasonal trap with a pretty view.

Position

The cause is an unlimited day-visit market landing on streets that were not sized for it, encouraged by short lets that replace residents. Cap the day-trip numbers and return some housing to local contracts.

Body paragraph 1

Point

An old town’s lanes hold a certain number of bodies, and a cheap day ticket exceeds that number by lunchtime.

Explanation

Cruise calls, coach deals and a short-let boom all sell the same photograph. None of them pays the resident who cannot reach the chemist at noon. The cause is the sale of a capacity the seller does not have to queue in.

Example

A lane of two metres that carried residents’ errands for most of the year and stopped moving between 11 and 4 once three coaches shared a drop-off.

Body paragraph 2

Point

Book a capped number of day entries and require a share of homes to be let on local contracts, not by the night.

Explanation

The cap gives the lane back for part of the day. The housing rule gives the winter back. A tourist tax spent on bins does neither. Solutions that only clean up after the crowd accept the crowd as the fixed fact.

Example

A town that sold a fixed number of coach slots and required new flats to be on annual local lets, after a year in which nurses were commuting in from the next bay.

Conclusion

Crowding is a sold capacity plus a housing market aimed at nights. Cap the first and re-let the second.

Position

They prefer it because the screen shows the price and the picture at midnight, without an office hour. They still need the rule that is not in the photograph: a visa, a dress code, a strike, a neighbourhood the pin calls central.

Body paragraph 1

Point

A direct booking lets the traveller compare a fare at the hour the child is asleep, and skip a commission.

Explanation

Agents sold time and access. The sites now sell the same inventory with a review attached. People who can read a cancellation rule prefer the control. People who cannot still prefer the feeling of control, which is part of the shift.

Example

A couple who booked a room at 11 p.m. after reading three cancellation policies, something a high-street agent would have done on a Thursday.

Body paragraph 2

Point

The booking does not contain the local rule or the current disruption, so the traveller still needs a check beyond the photos.

Explanation

A shrine’s dress code, a visa clock, a strike on the airport bus, a "central" pin that is an industrial estate: these used to be the agent’s embarrassing questions. They remain necessary. The preference for self-booking does not delete them. It moves them onto the traveller, who may not know to ask.

Example

A guest who arrived on a festival day when the street was closed, because the listing’s map did not mention the procession and no agent had warned them.

Conclusion

People book direct for price and control. The knowledge they still need is the part a photograph cannot show.

Position

Negative for a small port. The spend per person is small, the hours are concentrated, and the ship’s own meals compete with the cafés that were supposed to benefit.

Body paragraph 1

Point

A few independent shops do take money from a day call, and a port fee is a real cheque.

Explanation

The positive fragment should be admitted. A craft stall and a port authority can gain from a gangway. In a large city the crowd may be absorbable. The development is not negative everywhere by definition. It is negative where the street is small and the ship is not.

Example

A harbour kiosk that sold out of water and postcards on call days and had an ordinary trade on the other days.

Body paragraph 2

Point

Thousands of people for six hours overwhelm a small centre, spend less than an overnight guest, and eat on board.

Explanation

The ship has already sold the lunch. The town provides the photograph and the congestion. Residents lose the morning. The fee rarely buys a second bus or a second nurse. Compared with guests who sleep in the town, the day call is a poor trade.

Example

An old port whose chemist queue was unusable until 3 p.m. on call days, while the ship’s restaurants had covered lunch for most of the passengers.

Conclusion

A day call from a large ship is a negative development for a small port. The postcard stall does not reverse the morning the town lost.