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Tourism & Hospitality vocabulary · Tours & Guiding

Guided tour

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

/ˌɡaɪdɪd ˈtʊr/nounCore term

In tourism & hospitality, guided tour means: A visit to a place such as a museum, city or historic site, led by a guide who explains what the group sees.

In Turkish: rehberli tur, rehber eşliğinde gezi

How it is used

Offered in different languages and lengths: a two-hour guided tour, a guided walking tour, a private guided tour. You join, book or take a guided tour; the opposite is a self-guided tour, often with an audio guide.

Example sentences

  1. There is a guided tour of the old town in English every morning at ten.

  2. We booked a private guided tour of Topkapı Palace for the family.

Common collocations

  • take a guided tour
  • join a guided tour
  • private guided tour
  • guided walking tour
  • tour guideA person whose job is to show tourists around places of interest and explain their history and culture.
  • excursionA short trip, usually lasting a day or less, that tourists take from their hotel to visit a place or do an activity.
  • entrance feeThe amount of money a visitor pays to enter a museum, historic site, park or other attraction.
  • meeting pointAn agreed place where a tour group or travellers gather at a set time, before or during a tour.

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