20 questions
What is the difference between Airline Security and Airline Safety?
Security is to prevent accidents, Safety is to prevent malicious acts against airlines.
Security is not important but safety is.
Safety is not important but Security is
Security is to prevent malicious acts against the airlines. Safety is to prevent accidents.
What does FAA stand for in the airline industry?
Future Astronauts Academy
Frequent Airline Administration
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Army Airforce
What is one of the responsibilities of the FAA?
Investigate airline crashes.
Inform the public of flight paths.
Make sure all the airlines have food onboard
Food safety on the airlines
The Transportation Industry is vital to the Travel and Tourism industry because: (choose all that apply)
It gets people from Point A to Point B
Without transportation, Travel and Tourism would be very limited.
Makes people want to stay home.
Gives many forms of transportation to those wishing to travel.
What does the term "Open Skies" refer to in the airline industry?
Skies open up when it starts raining.
Refers to policies that allow national airlines to fly to, and above, other countries.
No one can fly in that area.
Thunderstorms with lots of rain.
Many airlines operate on a "hub and spoke" model. This system gives the predominant airline in a given airport a strong competitive position as it feeds passengers to and from the hub, maximizing the number of passengers on each flight.
True
False
What ran the passenger railroad industry out of business?
Airline travel
Interstate Highways
Cars
All of the above
What does FRA stand for?
Fraternal Railroad Associations
Federal Railway Association
Federal Ranking Administration
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Amtrak was organized and founded in the 1970's and is owned and operated by the U. S. Government.
True
False
•Over 55% of the world’s cruise passengers are from North America, and the leading destination (based on ship deployments), according to CLIA, is:
The Caribbean
Alaska
Europe
South America
What are the key differences between river cruises and ocean cruises?
One is on the water, one is one land.
There are no differences.
River cruise ships are smaller and hold fewer passengers.
Ocean cruise ships are smaller and hold fewer passengers.
What are some of the major concerns on cruise lines?
Disease outbreak (especially the norovirus)
Accidents
Severe weather
All of the above
A charter bus is a large coach that is hired by an organization to transport a group of people to a destination determined by the group's coordinator.
True
False
What percentage of the rental car sales occur at airports?
15%
100%
75%
35%
A ride on a city-wide bus is generally very inexpensive.
True
False
What type of bus service is a service that takes visitors sightseeing, with routes around tourist attractions.
Charter bus
School Bus
Tour Bus
City Bus
Which of the following are water-based transportation services? Check all that apply.
Tour Bus
River Cruise
Cruise Ship
River Ferry
In Pre-Industrial Age travel, who was the first to travel for the purposes of peace and tourism?
Marco Polo
Queen Hatshepsut
Chaka Khan
The Phoenicians
The 776 B.C. Olympian Games was the first event that motivated tourists to travel for...
Sports
Religious reasons
Tourism
Trade
The development of railroads was motivated by the need to move goods & ______________ from one region of the country to another.
Cattle
Supplies
People
Cars