Tourism-related words
Tourism
First of all, this glossary is for my English class, so I have to make it. Second of all, it can also help some other students or workers in that field. Definition of tourism: the commercial organization and operation of holidays and visits to places of interest.
- airline
- noun
- An organization providing a regular public service of air transportation on one or more routes.
- Example: SABRE is an AIRLINE reservation system, developed by American AIRLINEs in the 1960s but now generally available.
- fr: compagnie aérienne
- camping site
- noun
- A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent.
- Example: The students turned to and cleaned up their CAMPING SITE.
- fr: terrain de camping
- country
- noun
- A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.
- Example: No COUNTRY, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.
- fr: pays
- culture
- noun
- The way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time.
- Example: Whether, for instance, concepts such as "ethnicity", "class", "politics" are "CULTURE - free", that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross - cultural use, is a question of judgment and, ultimately, of ontology.
- fr: culture
- economy
- noun
- The wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.
- Example: An organizing term can be introduced here - post - modernism - to describe a new set of relations among ECONOMY, state and civil society in crisis.
- fr: économie
- flight attendant
- noun
- A person who attends passengers on an airplane.
- Example: The FLIGHT ATTENDANT welcomed us aboard.
- fr: agent de bord
- hajj
- noun
- the greater Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, which takes place in the last month of the year and which all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime if they can afford to do so. It is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
- Example: The quarantine office keeps a record of arrivals by sea at Jidda (66,000 for 1904); but to these must be added those travelling by land from Cairo, Damascus. The sacrifice is not indispensable except for those who can afford it and are combining the HAJJ with the omra.
- fr: hajj
- hotel
- noun
- An establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis.
- Example: There he sat in his writer's HOTEL room, venturing out into a series of tight corners, filing his copy, then leaving for Warsaw to compose his short books - objects physically slight but charged with these confusions.
- fr: hôtel
- travel
- verb
- Go from one place to another, typically over a distance of some length.
- Example: In A Tourist in Africa (1960), for example, a TRAVEL book composed long before hostility to apartheid was widely fashionable, Waugh bluntly called it "racial insanity", on the grounds that it "fantastically choose[s] pigmentation as a determining factor".
- fr: voyager
- vacation
- noun
- A time when someone does not go to work or school but is free to do what they want, such as travel or relax.
- Example: He writes of them as they stay for waftage: Some crates were as big as VACATION cottages, because a hierarchy of crate status had suddenly come into being.
- fr: vacances
