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A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [ 1] It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying detail and historical and cultural information are often included.
A tour guide in the United Kingdom. A tour guide (U.S.) or a tourist guide (European) is a person who provides assistance, and information on cultural, historical and contemporary heritage to people on organized sightseeing and individual clients at educational establishments, religious and historical sites such as; museums, and at various venues of tourist attraction resorts. [1]
Tour operator. A tour operator is a business that typically combines and organizes accommodations, meals, sightseeing and transportation components, [ 1] in order to create a package tour. They advertise and produce brochures to promote their products, holidays and itineraries. Tour operators can sell directly to the public or sell through ...
UN Tourism ( UNWTO until 2023) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which promotes responsible, sustainable and universally-accessible tourism. Its headquarters are in Madrid, Spain. Other offices include: a Regional Support Office for Asia and the Pacific in Nara, Japan [ 2] and a Regional Office for the Middle East in Riyadh, Saudi ...
700+ (Q1, 2023) [ 1] URL. www .getyourguide .com. GetYourGuide is a Berlin-based startup [ 2] online marketplace for travel activities. [ 3] GetYourGuide sells tours and excursions, activities including cooking classes, and tickets to tourist attractions. [ 4] It offers more than 100,000 products worldwide from more than 20,000 supply partners.
Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people. [ 1] The stated purpose may be to educate the traveler, to provide funds for ecological conservation, to directly benefit the ...
Cultural tourism is a type of tourism in which the visitor's essential motivation is to learn, discover, experience and consume the cultural attractions and products offered by a tourist destination. These attractions and products relate to the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional features of a society that encompasses arts and architecture ...