Travel is something everyone loves to do. People like to explore new places, try out new cuisines, connect with people from the different geographic backgrounds. It helps them to understand how people live and also experience new things.
We have prepared a list of common English words one would encounter while travelling from one place to another.
Travel Vocabulary Words for ESL Beginners
| Airport | a complex of runways and buildings for the take-off, landing, and maintenance of civil aircraft, with facilities for passengers. |
| Check-in | the action of registering one’s presence, typically as a passenger at an airport. |
| Fly | travel through the air; be airborne |
| Land | To land somewhere |
| Landing | an instance of coming or bringing something to land, either from the air or from water. |
| Plane | a flat surface on which a straight line joining any two points on it would wholly lie. |
| Take-off | an instance of becoming airborne. |
| Camp | a place with temporary accommodation of huts, tents, or other structures, typically used by soldiers, refugees, or traveling people. |
| Destination | the place designated as the end, as of a race or journey |
| Go Camping | go and perform the activity known as camping |
| Go Sightseeing | Sightseeing is the activity of traveling around a city or region to see the interesting places that tourists usually visit |
| Hostel | an establishment which provides inexpensive food and lodging for a specific group of people, such as students, workers, or travelers. |
| Excursion | a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity. |
| Hotel | an establishment providing accommodation, meals, and other services for travelers and tourists. |
| Luggage | suitcases or other bags in which to pack personal belongings for traveling. |
| Motel | a roadside hotel designed primarily for motorists |
| Packaging | materials used to wrap or protect goods. |
| Passenger | a traveler on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew. |
| Route | a way or course is taken in getting from a starting point to a destination. |
| Suitcase | a case with a handle and a hinged lid, used for carrying clothes and other personal possessions. |
| Tour | a route all the way around a particular place or area |
| Travel | Change Location |
| Roam | move about aimlessly or without any destination |
| Move | change location |
| Step | the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down |
| Journey | the act of traveling from one place to another |
| Voyage | a journey to some distant place |
| Trek | any long and difficult trip |
| Map | a diagrammatic representation of the earth’s surface |
| Guide | someone employed to conduct others |
| Globetrotter | someone who travels widely and often |
Englishbix has put together an entire list of words that contains relatable key terms and it’s significance in the tourism industry. Let’s have a look at tourism words and their meaning. To make it easy for you we have sorted the list from A to Z.
Tourism Vocabulary Words List
| Words | Meaning |
| Attractions | Somewhere or something you can visit that is interesting or enjoyable |
| Beauty Spot | A beautiful place in the countryside that attracts tourists |
| Ecotourism | Generally, a business of creating and selling holidays that provide people that best chance to know about nature |
| Guide | A person whose job is to look after a group of people who are visiting a place |
| Guidebook | A book that is specifically written for the tourists to provide information about the place. |
| Heritage Centre | a building where tourists and other visitors get information about a place and its people, |
| Holiday Resort | A place where a lot of people go on holiday and usually to the hotels, bars, restaurants. |
| Holiday Season | It is the time of the year when most of the people take their holidays |
| Holiday Village | These are small houses built for people to stay while they are on holiday. |
| Phrase Book | It is a book that contains really useful words and phrases of the foreign language that is used by tourists. |
| Resort | A place where many people go to relax on holidays |
| Showplace | An impressive place that tourists often visits |
| Sights | Some interesting places that people go to see |
| Space Tourism | A kind of space travel that is generally done for enjoyment |
| Sunset Point | A place where the sun sets between the mountains |
| Tour Guide | someone whose job it is to show tourists around a place and explain its history, architecture etc |
| Tourism | the business of providing services for people who are traveling for their holiday |
| Tourist | someone who is visiting a place on holiday |
| Tourist Attraction | a place to visit that is very popular with tourists |
| Tourist Board | an official organization in a country or area that encourages tourists to visit that country or area |
| Tourist Trap | a place that is visited by many tourists and is therefore crowded and expensive |
| Travel Agency | a company that organizes holiday tours |
| Travel Agent | someone whose job is to help people plan holidays and make travel arrangements. |
| Well-traveled | a well-traveled place is visited or used by many people |
| Whale watching | the activity of watching whales |
We hope that this guide will help you to get acquainted with words which are commonly used whenever you travel.
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