Read the interview. Who does the travel industry cater for today: the backpacking set or the upmarket traveller?

Here are the solutions to the grammar exercises:

EXPLOIT

1. Complete the sentences with the present continuous, past continuous, or present perfect continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

1. The number of people using travel agencies has been getting smaller over the past ten years, as more people have booked holidays online.
2. Currently, the number of budget travellers headed for Europe is not increasing, but as more airlines expand their routes, this may change.
3. Space travel was turning into an interesting prospect for billionaires before the cutback on space missions.
4. Many of our country's hotels are not responding quickly enough to the needs of more sophisticated guests. This is starting to change now, however.

2. Look at the diagrams. Complete the sentences with the present continuous, past continuous or present perfect simple or continuous form of one of the verbs below.
(Verbs: decline, decrease, increase, stabilize, stop)

• Diagram A: Amount spent on the average holiday In the early 2000s, the amount spent on the average holiday was increasing. However, this trend has been increasing, and the amount spent on the average holiday is increasing at this time.

• Diagram B: Distance of holiday destination from home for the average holidaymaker In the early 2000s, the average distance the typical holidaymaker travelled from home was decreasing, but it wasn't stabilizing either. Around 2004, the distance was decreasing, but this trend is increasing now, although we are not sure it will continue to do so.