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FIT

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

/ˌef aɪ ˈtiː/abbreviationAdvanced term

In tourism & hospitality, FIT means: Short for free independent traveller: a guest who travels alone or in a small party, not as part of a group, and arranges their own trip.

In Turkish: bireysel misafir, bireysel gezgin, FIT

How it is used

Used in hotel and agency reports to separate individual business from groups and tour series: FIT rates, FIT bookings. Some people expand it as foreign independent traveller. Each letter is said separately: F-I-T.

Example sentences

  1. Most of our guests in spring are FIT, not groups.

  2. The agency sends us both FIT bookings and group series.

Common collocations

  • FIT guests
  • FIT bookings
  • FIT rates
  • FIT and groups
  • group bookingA single reservation for many rooms or people travelling together, such as a tour group, a wedding party or a company event.
  • travel agencyA business that sells holidays, tours, tickets and hotel stays to travellers, often earning a commission from suppliers.
  • tour operatorA company that puts together holiday packages from flights, hotels, transfers and tours and sells them directly or through travel agencies.
  • DMCShort for destination management company: a local company that organises transfers, tours, events and hotels for groups coming from abroad.

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