TOUR VOCABULARY

Tourist Guided Tour – a visit to a place such as a museum with a guide who explains facts about the place.

Sentence – Underground Works: Take an audio guided tour of these fascinating tunnels and works that date back to 1216.

Trip – a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again.

Sentence – She managed to fiddle a free trip to America.

Souvenir – something you buy or keep to help you remember a holiday or special event.

Sentence – It follows the opening to the public of Buckingham Palace and massive sales at a new souvenir shop.

Ticket Office – an office or kiosk where tickets are sold.

Sentence – She picked up her two large suitcases and walked through the small cool ticket office on to the station forecourt.

Guest – a person who is staying with you, or a person you have invited to a social occasion, such as a party or a meal.

Sentence – Saunders said his guest was astonished to find pleasant public parks, nice streets and well-kept houses.

Reservation – an arrangement in which something such as a seat on an aircraft or a table at a restaurant is kept for you.

Sentence – Computerized reservation systems help airline profits in several ways.

Culture – the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time.

Sentence – The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

Picnic – an occasion when you have an informal meal of sandwiches, etc. outside, or the food itself.

Sentence – Too often, picnic preparation consists of throwing together some sandwiches and grabbing an apple.

View – what you can see from a particular place, or the ability to see from a particular place.

Sentence – She takes a basically conservative view of society.

Tourist Attraction – a place that people visit for pleasure and interest, usually while they are on holiday.

Sentence – Starting from the Scenic Tunnel, long a tourist attraction, the pair headed for the opening that had previously been blasted.