問題詳情
The Tour de France has cycling on many people’s minds, and for luxury travelers, there has never been abetter time to tour the world on two wheels. When the 2016 edition of the popular Travel + Leisure MagazineWorld’s Best Awards came out recently, tour operators were stunned. A little known company that had neverappeared in the rankings before took the coveted Number One spot as the World’s Best Tour Operator. Gray &Co. is a high end, 100% custom road and mountain bike (and hike) tour operator out of Canada, created in 2009by a longtime industry veteran specifically to address the demands of deep-pocketed, experienced travelers whohad “been there and done that.” Owner Cari Gray’s forte is finding awesome places to ride, with great scenery,hotels, food, and most of all, fantastic pavement with little traffic. She raves about places that are off of manytraveling cyclists’ radar, such as northern Argentina, parts of Australia and the Canary Islands, or Chile’sAtacama desert for mountain biking enthusiasts, all handpicked because of the quality of the cycling. Beforerunning a tour to a new area, she gathers her team of guides, support drivers and mechanics, and does the trip, inadvance of paying clients, to make sure everything from road conditions to the hotels is perfect.While it is hard to beat this level of white glove service, Gray & Co. is not alone—the private and bespokebike vacation business is booming at all sorts of price points. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the entireguided cycling industry, which was pioneered by Butterfield & Robinson, whose slogan is “Slow Down to Seethe World,” and started taking customers on luxury journeys in 1966. For decades, B&R, as its ultra-loyal fansknow it, has been the widely acclaimed, award-winning world leader in luxury scheduled cycling trips, and overthe years added hiking, kayaking, sailing and “multi-sport” departures. But they have also vastly grown theirbespoke business—so much that it now accounts for at least half their volume. In other words, while B&R is anawesome company, the only thing better than their regular trips is their private trips. They are ranked NumberTwo in the new Travel + Leisure list (which despite the number of cycling specialists, included tour operatorsfrom many other fields).
【題組】71 What is the best title for the passage?
(A) Gary & Co. conquered Butterfield and Robinson
(B) luxury travel’s hot trend: biking and hiking vacations
(C) package tour and private tour
(D) slow down to see the world
參考答案
答案：B
難度：非常簡單1
統計：A(0),B(2),C(0),D(0),E(0)