【正文】 surprising that the railway in Britain took so long to adapt to the needs of massmarket tourism in the late 20th century. Certainly the railways played a major role in the provision of tourist transport throughout the first half of the last century. In the public, such as airport, plant ships or railways and so on, people have to municate with each other and they have to serve their guests. So we need tourism English. No matter who you are or where you are from, you can share the fortable service during the tour. That’s tourism English used in the transportation. B. Tourism English Used in Acmodation Acmodation is a crucial part in tourism. It includes the following places: hotels licensed hotel unlicensed, motels, private hotels, guesthouses and farmhouses. Here, we only analyze hotels which can accept foreigners. There are many departments in the hotel, and also have the special English to translate these departments, such as board of directors, general manager, human resources directors, security directors, Food amp。對此，本文首先通過對旅游英語本身的研究，揭示了旅游英語的語言功能，并且從語言學和文化的角度，分析了旅游英語的特點，正是這些特點使得旅游英語成為一種獨特的英語文體。因此，旅游英語這個特殊的英語文體開始在中國旅游行業(yè)中流行，并成為旅游業(yè)發(fā)展必不可少的因素 之一。 Culture 摘 要 隨著中國旅游業(yè)的迅速發(fā)展，越來越多的外國游客來到中國旅游觀光。 Function。On Distinctive Features of Tourism English 論旅游英語的特征 Abstract With the rapid development of Chinese tourism industry, more and more foreign tourists have e to China. Although not all foreign tourists are from Englishspeaking countries, English, as a mon language in today39。s world, has bee the most important medium of munication when international tourist activities are involved. As a result, tourism English appears as ESP English, and bees popular and necessary in Chinese tourism. Many Chinese students majoring in tourism learn tourism English as a course. A large number of employees in tourism industry start to use English in their work. In this case, this essay firstly aims at exposing the language functions of tourism English, and analyzes its distinctive features in terms of linguistics and culture, which identifies tourism English as a special branch of English. The detailed study on tourism English itself will be helpful for the Chinese students of tourism English and the staff in the field to use it well and deal with tourism English translation. Key Words Tourism English。 Features。雖然這些外國游客并不是全部來自英語國家，但是作為當今世界通用語，英語成為國際旅游活動中一個最重要的交流工具和媒介。許多旅游英語專業(yè)的學生在學習旅游英語，一大部分旅游從業(yè)者開始學習使用英語。對于旅游英語本身的詳細研究不僅可以幫助旅游從業(yè)人員更好的了解和使用旅游英語，并且也為旅游英語翻譯打下良好的基礎。 Beverage Director, Director of marketing and sales and so on. If only we serve foreigners, each department may use tourism English. The following dialog is tourism English used in a hotel. Receptionist: Yes, sir, this is the Front Office of wan you conifer hotel, can I help you? Guest: I’m calling from New York. I’d like to book one room in your hotel. Receptionist: What kind of room would you like? We have all kinds of rooms as single rooms, double rooms, suites and deluxe suites and presidential suites. Guest: A deluxe suite, please. Receptionist: Can you tell me your name, please? Guest: Jackson. JACKSON Receptionist: Thank you, and your arrival and departure date? Guest: June 1 to 6 Receptionist: OK, Mr. Jackson. A deluxe suite, from June 1 to 6. Is that right? Guest: Yes, excellent. Receptionist: All right, we are looking forward to seeing you here on June 1, Goodbye. Guest: Thank you, Goodbye. Ⅱ . The Features of Language Functions of Tourism English As Professor Hu Zhuangling of Beijing University mentioned in his book, “Linguistics: A Course Book”, “l(fā)anguage has to serve various purposes as there are different types of them for using it”. As a particular variety of English language, tourism English has its own language functions, which are mainly informative, directive and evocative functions. A. Informative Function According to the book of Linguistics﹒ A Course Book, Professor Hu Zhuangling says “Language serves an informative function when it is used to tell what the speaker believes, to give information about facts, or to reason things out”. For most people the informative function is predominantly the major role of language. Tourist need to acquire all kinds of information when they start a tour to a new place. Such information includes: what kind of place they will visit。 what kind of entertainment they will enjoy in this place。 how they can get there by air, train or bus... The information they need is provided accordingly by such anization as hotel, airport, bus or railway stations, the tourist spots counters, the city39。 feeling of desire to e to visit that place or enjoy the services they provide, of course, with pay. For example: Hangzhou is one of China’s major scenic wonders as well as a famous culture city with a long history. Hangzhou is famous for its West Lake, an area of striking beauty. Covering square kilometers, and has such place of interest as Three Pools Mirroring the Moon. Originally a shallow bay adjoining the Qiantang River, it was gradually transformed into an inland lake by the sittingup of the outlet. “ The West Lake is parable with the girl Xi Zi, always charming with either light or heavy makeup”. Indeed it looks beautiful as the some beautiful poem. Some tourists want to check up the poem above, they are attracted by the beautiful words. Ⅲ .The Linguistic Features of Tourism English Identifying the features of tourism English studied is always necessary when we work on it. The distinctive features of tourism English distinguish it from the other branches of English, such as technology English, legal English and business English and so on. The paper will analyze the features from four aspects, The first is from the point of linguistics, which includes the lexical and grammatical point of view. The second is from its performative fu