the list of names or passengers on a tour or other group travel program, submitted to a hotel/motel. The names are not alphabetized as on a flight manifest, but rather room-by-room indicating who is rooming with whom. Twin-bedded rooms, singles and triples are usually listed in separate categories.

an independent guide who comes aboard a motor coach to give an informed overview of the city or attraction to be toured

a large, formal business that employs many people

DIT: a custom-made tour of a part of the USA planned exclusively for a client by a travel agent

an unescorted tour sold through agents to individuals. For one price, the client guaranteed air travel, hotel room, attraction admissions and (typically) a car rental.

a pre-arranged, pre-paid travel program for a group usually including all components. Also see packaged tour.

a schedule of wholesale rates distributed in confidence to travel wholesalers and agents. Better known as a net rate.

see override

A framework that identifies tourism as being made up of a number of components, often taken to include the tourist, the tourist generating region, the transit route region, the tourist destination and the tourism industry (Leiper, 1990)

a person or company, which creates and/or markets inclusive tours and subcontracts with suppliers to create a package. Most tour operators sell through travel agents and/or directly to clients.