package tour
2
2.7
- noun
- /ˈpækɪdʒ tʊr/
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viaje organizado
- Last summer, we enjoyed a memorable package tour that included flights, hotels, and meals all for one price.
- offer package tours
Examples
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It was one of those student package tours, and four of us had casually teamed up: the two girls, another guy, and I—we had all taken adjoining rooms when we finally got to Paris.
Fiction book (1990) -
In spring 2003, the satirical magazine Private Eye charged Hari with falsehoods in three New Statesman stories, including one in which he claimed to have spent a month reporting from Iraq when in fact he had gone on a two-week package tour of the country's ancient sites.
Academic text (2011) -
Okay, everyone, so, part of our tour package included these first-class tickets.
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Before then, many rock shows were presented as package tours and variety shows with short 15-minute sets.
Blog text (1) -
Few territorial communities can provide the range of services and activities that tourists expect and that tour operators require before organizing package tours.
Academic text (1991) -
I visited Botswana as part of a one-week package tour.
Blog text (3) -
Some 200 package tours were also offered that year, including wilderness adventures, cruises, and nature trips.
Academic text (1991) -
Even the most basic package tours of Los Angeles offered by Japanese tourist companies include stops at Santa Monica Beach (Moore 1985).
Academic text (2005) -
We contacted a company that operated its package tours in the region and proposed to offer, free of charge, a lunch at the farm, then inquire about their impressions.
Blog text (18) -
The Dempster Highway is helping to open the Western Arctic region to general touring and camping markets, while the package-tour segment is promising for Keewatin and Baffin.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A journey to a place and back for work or fun
819
1.0
A trip visiting several places and returning to the start, usually for work or pleasure
1
2.7
A group of travel services sold together for one price
A holiday sold by a travel company with flights and hotel included
Antonyms
How Inclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'package' (a bundled set of items or services) + 'tour' (a trip), yielding a bundled trip or holiday that includes transport, accommodation, etc. This compositional logic is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'paquete turístico', French 'voyage organisé'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun package tour comes from the idea of putting all parts of a trip into one package, like a single box holding transport, hotel and other services, with tour meaning the planned trip. So it means a 'holiday' with transport, hotels and sometimes meals all included.