wax museum

On the eve of selling his London wax museum to American Amos Burns, Claude Dupree is murdered by his Jack the Ripper figure, which apparently comes to life.

2020, James McKay, Ray Milland: The Films, 1929–1984, McFarland, page 261

A museum featuring lifelike statues made of wax.


allocentric

en-adj

allocentric (comparative more allocentric, superlative most allocentric)

more allocentric (comparative)
most allocentric (superlative)

The adjective is derived from allo- (prefix meaning ‘different; other’) + -centric (suffix meaning ‘having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention’). Sense 3 (‘of a tourist: tending to be adventurous’) was coined by the American travel researcher Stanley C. Plog in a paper presented to the Southern California Chapter of the Travel Research Association on 10 October 1972, which was later published in February 1974.
The noun is probably derived from the adjective.

coinage

[Stanley C.] Plog (1974, 1990, 1991b) delineated personality types along a continuum ranging from allocentrism to psychocentrism. The psychocentric personality type tends toward territory boundedness, insecurity, and powerlessness. Psychocentric individuals also tend to have non-active lifestyles and are non-adventurous. In contrast, allocentric individuals tend to be self-confident, intellectually curious, and feel in control of their lives.

1995, Robert Madrigal, “Personal Values, Traveler Personality Type, and Leisure Travel Style”, in Journal of Leisure Research, volume 27, number 2, Arlington, Va.: National Recreation and Park Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-14, page 128

[P]sychocentrics could conceivably vacation in essentially allocentric destinations (with the exception of people with extremely low incomes). For instance, a psychocentric may travel to a remote area under the security of a completely planned, fully escorted tour.

1999, K. K. Sharma, “Tourism Psychology and Motivation”, in Tourism and Culture, New Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, published 2004, page 189

Remember that whether a tourist is more psychocentric or more allocentric depends on the different motivations and the different destinations chosen by the tourist. The tourist may also oscillate between both psychocentric and allocentric choices. For example, a tourist may choose an allocentric holiday in December to a remote game reserve, but have a psychocentric short break in July to Singapore, where he or she may prefer a package tour and will stick to the touristy areas of town.

2003, “Tourism Motivation and Behaviour”, in Berendien Lubbe, editor, Tourism Management in Southern Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape: Pearson Education South Africa, published 2005, part 2 (The Demand for Tourism), page 38, column 2

[Stanley C.] Plog recognised that personalities change over time, and given time, the psychocentrics may become allocentric in their choice of holiday destination and activity as they gain experience of travel.

2020, J. Christopher Holloway, Claire Humphreys, “The Demand for Tourism”, in The Business of Tourism, 11th edition, London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, part 1 (Defining and Analysing Tourism and Its Impacts), page 75

At the one extreme, psychocentrics are those travellers that are not adventurous, and seek amenities and culture similar to their home environment. At the other end of the continuum, an allocentric tourist is very adventurous, seeks and embraces different cultures, local food, and requires only basic tourism infrastructure.

2020, Peter Robinson, Michael Lück, Stephen L. J. Smith, “Responsible Tourism Management”, in Tourism, 2nd edition, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Boston, Mass.: CABI, part 5 (Tourism Development), page 366, column 1

(also tourism) Of a tourist: tending to be adventurous and preferring novel and unfamiliar experiences.


allocentric

According to [Stanley C.] Plog (1991b), psychocentrics tend to prefer a high degree of familiarity in their travel and, as a result, enjoy group or "packaged" tours. In contrast, allocentrics enjoy vacations to exotic and unique destinations, and prefer to travel independently (i.e., not as part of group tours).

Simply put, psychocentrics are at ease only when within their comfort zone, while allocentrics are driven to leave their comfort zone on a regular basis.
Applied in an employment context.]

[2001, Doris S. Davidoff, Philip G. Davidoff, Donald M. Davidoff, Douglas G. Davidoff, “The Classic Motivation Mistake”, in Parenting the Office, Gretna, New Orleans, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, page 209

Another typology of tourists was introduced by [Stanley C.] Plog (1991), who used psychographic analysis to create a continuum of tourist types. While Plog's model is a continuum with indefinite points, he was able to divide tourists into five main groups: psychocentrics, near psychocentrics, midcentrics, near allocentrics, and allocentrics.

(psychology, tourism) A tourist who tends to be adventurous and to prefer novel and unfamiliar experiences.


musæum

From the Latin mūsaeum, variant form of mūsēum, whence the English museum.

1721: William Lilly, Mr. Lilly’s History of His Life and Times: Written by Himself. Published from the Original Manuscript, Reposited in the Ashmolean Musæum at Oxford. To which is Subjoined, The True History of King James I. and King Charles I., book title (E. Curll, J. Pemberton, and W. Taylor)

1774: The Divine Predictions of Daniel and St. John Demonstrated: In a Symbolical Theological Dissertation on Cox’s Musæum. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory…, book title (J. Wheble)

1789: Leman Thomas Rede, Alexander Dalrymple, John Debrett, and Arthur Homer, Bibliotheca Americana; Or, A Chronological Catalogue of the Most Curious and Interesting Books, Pamphlets, State Papers, &c. Upon the Subject of North and South America: From the Earliest Period to the Present, in Print and Manuscript; for which Research Has Been Made in the British Musæum, and…, book title (self-published)

1868: Museo nazionale di Napoli and Raffaele Gargiulo, Collection of the most remarkable monuments of the National Musæum, book title (R. Gargiulo)


superluminality

The quality or condition of being superluminal.


superluminally

In a superluminal manner; faster than the speed of light.


PCC

(travel) Initialism of pseudo-city code (a short alpha-numeric code used to represent the location that a GDS is operated from.)


chronokinesis

(science fiction) The ability to manipulate the flow of time.


timelord

From time + lord. From "Time Lord", the term for a member of a specific race of time travellers from the long-running BBC television series Doctor Who.

A renegade timelord from the future who liked to meddle with history? If this were so, perhaps he really had talked with Christ and the kings of bygone days.

1999, Thomas Slemen, Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People

...a kind of timelord who rewrites himself as he passes across timezones and geographical locations, often within the same sentence.

...a mind that could fly to all points in the cosmos seemingly at will, able to slip between time, across the ages like some omnipotent, hip hop timelord.

2004, Neil Kulkarni, Hip Hop: Bring the Noise

Not doing a timelord, ping ponging back and forth through time.

2007, Carmel McConnell, The Happiness Plan


Alcubierre metric

en-noun

Alcubierre metric (plural Alcubierre metrics)

Named after Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre.

(relativity) A type of spacetime metric. See warp bubble.


stargate

From star + gate. A science-fiction film of this title, Stargate, was released in 1994.

Find examples of stargates and wormholes in the ancient world […]

2000, David Hatcher Childress, Technology of the Gods

Perhaps the first clear depiction of a stargate is to be found in Robert Heinlein's classic novel Tunnel in the Sky […]

2001, William R Alschuler, Howard Zimmerman, The Science of UFOs

A stargate takes you to that star or constellation. […] The opening of a stargate requires the participation of the Archangel Michael […]

2002, Richard Leviton, The Galaxy on Earth: A Traveler's Guide to the Planet's Visionary Geography

At some point it might be possible to devise a "stargate" such as depicted in the movies 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stargate […]

2003, Albert A Harrison, After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life

With a stargate, travel is instantaneous. It is quite possible that the secret government either has a stargate or is trying to get one.

2004, Stephanie Relfe, The Mars Force Book 2

(neologism, science fiction) A hypothetical device consisting of a traversable portal (typically a wormhole) that can send one to another location light years away nearly instantaneously.


museumgoer

“It’s not the audience and the forum that they crave in the way that somebody in an earlier generation might have,” said Carlo McCormick[…] of museumgoers and museums.

2009 January 25, Randy Kennedy, “Outlaws at the Art Museum (and Not for a Heist)”, in New York Times


OAL

(travel, aviation) Initialism of other airline.


cybermuseum

A museum that exists only in cyberspace or on the Internet.


suicide tourism

‘In Venice they have suicide tourism,’ my father had once said. ‘People who want to commit suicide make a special trip to Venice and then at five o'clock in the morning they put a bullet through their heads on the Piazza San Marco.’

2005, Margot Bettauer Dembo, transl., Nothing But Ghosts, Fourth Estate, translation of Nichts als Gespenster by Judith Hermann

The Swiss researchers write that “the six right-to-die organizations assist in approximately 600 cases of suicide per year; some 150 to 200 of which are suicide tourists,” or people coming to Switzerland seeking aid-in-dying. The study looks at the data on suicide tourism in the greater Zurich area between 2008 and 2012.

2014 August 27, Julie Beck, “'Going to Switzerland' Is a Euphemism for Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic

Travel for the purpose of committing suicide, as for example to a country where assisted suicide is legal.

zelfmoordtoerisme

travel for the purpose of committing suicide


timeslip

In any case, neither Morris nor Adeler used a timeslip like Twain.

1996, Rebecca A Umland, The use of Arthurian legend in Hollywood film

And, although not in a timeslip tale, the horse protagonist of Richard Adams's Traveler (1988) is a creature inherently bound to General Lee...

1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

For an instant, she felt as though she were caught in a timeslip — her crew suffering from scurvy, the transporter a significant advantage...

He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper (1948) uses a timeslip to explain a mysterious actual event summarized in the story's prologue...

2003, Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, The Cambridge companion to science fiction

In an apparently fantastic moment, Stephen experiences a timeslip that enables him to secure his own existence.

(science fiction) A phenomenon that causes unexpected time travel.


Hagia Sophia

/ˈhɑːɡiə soʊˈfiə/

From Byzantine Greek and Ancient Greek Ἁγία Σοφία (Hagía Sophía, “Holy Wisdom”).

bor

A mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, (historical) the former patriarchal church of Greek Orthodoxy, operated as a museum 1935–2020.

Ajasofja

a former basilica, now a mosque in Turkey


chrononaut

From chrono- + -naut, modelled on astronaut and/or cosmonaut.

The honour of the final great mistake will go to David Powers, Scientist Chrononaut.

1972, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, volume 46, page 119

The conventional view of time travel, however, has the ‘chrononauts’ travelling backwards and forwards in time. But in a more restricted sense we are all chrononauts, on a one-way fixed-speed journey into the future.

1999, John Guy Porter, Patrick Moore, Yearbook of Astronomy, page 146

This tiny accident, because of the multiplicative effect of unforeseeable circumstances, results in an important alteration in the present time when the chrononauts return — the language is spoken differently and a different President of the United States has been elected.

2002, José Luis Sanz, Starring T. Rex!: Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, page 62

(science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.


open-air museum

en-noun

open-air museum (plural open-air museums)

Engineers from the Tyne & Wear Metro stepped back in time in December, to conduct a safety-critical inspection of the tramway at the open-air Beamish Museum in County Durham.

2022 January 12, “Network News: Nexus inspects Beamish lines”, in RAIL, number 948, page 14

A museum where the exhibitions are located outdoors.


superlumic

faster-than-light; having a speed greater than light.


museumgoing

the museumgoing public

Visiting a museum or museums, especially habitually or regularly.


museumgoing

During the eighties, a number of major museums, including the Modern, had expanded, hoping to cash in on a boom in museumgoing.

1994 May, New York Magazine, volume 27, number 19


timescape

From time + -scape, probably by analogy with landscape.

Back to the Future
DeLorean DMC-12
San Diego Comic-Con

timescape n. time conceived of, or perceived as, possessing multiple dimensions.]

[2007, “timescape”, in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, page 241

My awareness extended beyond human memory and I drifted, lost in the crevices of the now visible Timescape. Then a point of light beckoned me and I strove for it. The light became the memory of my personality and I dove into it. I swirled in an ever-tightening spiral. I was all eight of my great-grand parents, I was both of my grandfathers and both of my grandmothers, I was my mother and my father and, finally, I was Jonathan Crowe again and I could now reflect upon what had been done to me.

2008 April 17, Jefferson R. Weekley, “The Pool of Blood”, in Red Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 214

[Mark] Zuckerberg is pursued throughout the timescape by the litigious Winklevoss twins, who operate a time machine bought for them by their daddy. Zuckerberg must constantly leap to and fro throughout the centuries in order to duck summonses.

2011, Travis Harmon, Jonathan Shockley, “Introduction”, in Let There Be Facebook: Status Updates from God, Gaga, and Everyone in between, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone Books, page vii, footnote 2

(science fiction) A multi-dimensional view of time, especially one in which time travel occurs.


love hotel

→ Thai: เลิฟโฮเต็ล (lə́əf-hoo-dtel)

Calque of Japanese ラブホテル (rabu hoteru), from English love + hotel, probably after the rotating sign of the Hotel Love, an early love hotel in Osaka, Japan.

A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.


retrocausality

retrocausality (usually uncountable, plural retrocausalities)

(physics) Any of several hypothetical phenomena that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause.


kangaroo route

From kangaroo (“marsupial associated with Australia and with Qantas”) + route; a registered trademark of Qantas.

The old first class in the nose of the aircraft has become a sleeperette area for sixteen premium class passengers who pay ten per cent above the first class price on the Kangaroo route.

1980, International Aeronautic Federation, Interavia, volume 35, page 935

1982, Royal Aeronautical Society. Australian Division, Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia, Aircraft, Volumes 62-63, page 26,
Rolls-Royce hate to have Qantas Kangaroo Route passengers saying they never fly in the RB211-powered 747s, because these are used almost exclusively on the Pacific routes.

As the 1950s ended Qantas and BOAC saw their comfortable hold on the Kangaroo route changed forever with the emergence of Air India and India′s demand for participation in their pooling arrangement.

2010, John Gunn, Crowded Skies: Qantas 1971-1989, page 109

(travel) An air route between the United Kingdom and Australia via Asia, especially that route flown by Qantas.


flotel

living quarters built on a floating platform, such as near an offshore oil rig.


tourist office

An office which provides information, brochures, maps, etc. for tourists to an area or locality.

旅遊信息問訊處

office which provides information for tourists


superlight

en-adj

superlight (comparative more superlight, superlative most superlight)

more superlight (comparative)
most superlight (superlative)

He was now presenting his doctoral thesis, which concerned the physics of superlight travel. Nowadays, it was fast enough to cover the galaxy in days, but it would take years to cross the intergalactic void to the nearest major galaxy.

2008, David Hartline, Galactic Liberty, page 118

(not comparable) faster-than-light, FTL; Faster than light speed (“c”).


boatel

(nautical) A ship, normally moored alongside a quay, used as a hotel


GSA

(aviation, travel) Initialism of general sales agreement. A contact between an airline and a travel company to provide customer service in a region where the airline does not have an office.


single ticket

(travel) A ticket entitling the holder to travel in one direction to a destination.


chronoclasm

From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), and κλάστης (klástēs, “a person who breaks something”); from κλάω (kláō, “break”).

(science fiction) An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.


hyperjump

(science fiction) A jump that transports some physical object immediately from one place to another, as by a hyperdrive or jump drive.


jump drive

(USB flash drive): A trademark name of flash drives owned by Lexar.

(science fiction) A means of travelling faster than light by jumping from one point to another in space.


paper ticket

(travel, aviation) A conventional airline ticket, consisting of a coupon for each flight together with other administration coupons.


ferd

table
Either from Middle English ferde (“went, fared”), past participle of faren, or from Middle English ferde (“army”), from Old English fierd; see fyrd.

It was our great desire to have at once been at handy-strokes, well understanding that the ferd of our hot spirits could not long abide in edge.

A dainty husband, an' the best o' men, Fresh in his eild as the gree simmer glen. An' still he maks a ferd his bread to earn— His aim to hae a canty but-an'-ben, Wi' something aye to spare to ilka bairn, That they the gude auld hospitality might learn.

1832, John Nevay, “The Cotter's Birth-Day”, in Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy, editors, The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance, page 381

(Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.


ferd

en-noun

ferd (usually uncountable, plural ferds)

From Middle English feren (“to fear”). More at fear.


ferd

en-adj

ferd (comparative more ferd, superlative most ferd)

more ferd (comparative)
most ferd (superlative)

Out of Deuelin toun, The folk wel fast ran, In a water to droun, So ferd were thai than;


ferd

George the ferd Erle of Hunlie and second of that name his sone, three. And Jane Gordoun his dochtir, the ferd.

1565, Proces of Divorce twixt Erle Bothwell and his Wife

Gevin vunder our signet, at Edinburgh, the xxiij day of Marche, and of our regnne the ferd yer.

The first & secund regents sall haif quarterlie ilkane threttein schilling four penneis. The thrid fyfteen sehillings and the ferd and principall twenty shillings.

1614, Register of Town Council of Edinburgh, vol x


visa run

[…] there are even travel agents who specialise in arranging visa runs […]

2004, Joe Bindloss, Wendy Taylor, Thailand's islands and beaches, page 407

A brief trip across a visited country's border in order to "restart the clock" on one's visa upon returning, where it would otherwise have expired.


antitelephone

(physics) A hypothetical device, used in thought experiments on causality, that could be used to send signals into one's own past.


mancation

(US, informal) A vacation taken by a group of men and catering specifically to male interests.


Pixie

(informal, aviation, travel) Air Niugini


Novikov self-consistency principle

Developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid-1980s.

(physics) A conjecture asserting that it is impossible to create paradoxes by time travel because the past cannot be changed.


OTA

en-noun

OTA (countable and uncountable, plural OTAs)

(travel, aviation) Initialism of online travel agency/agent.


low cost carrier

low cost carrier (plural low cost carriers)

(aviation, travel) An airline that sells very inexpensive tickets but which does not provide (or charges for) typical services like meals or the carriage of baggage.

格安航空会社

かくやすこうくうがいしゃ


science center

Founded in 1967 as a private, nonprofit science center, Talcott attracts thousands of students from the region to its daylong and weekend sessions to supplement their regular science curriculum

1991 December, G. Keizer with D. M. Kennedy, “Class acts”, in Omni, volume 14, number 3, page 42

Intel's hands-on science centers were so successful with students that the New Mexico State Department of Education adopted them as a model for schools.

2000 July/August, Edward E Gordon, “Help wanted: Creating tomorrow's work force”, in Futurist, volume 34, number 4, page 48

Gatorade Sports Science institute(R) Committed to providing information in exercise science and sports nutrition. Visit the sports science center at www.gssiweb.com for practical training information

2001 September 30, “Skills: Which wheel should you draft?”, in Bicycling, volume 42, number 9, page 24

Take Washington D.C.'s much-heralded makeover of Union Station, for example. Or in the Midwest, where adaptive reuse has driven lavish restorations of big stations in St. Louis, now primarily a marketplace, and in Kansas City, where a science center is the main tenant.

2001 April 18, Ross Atkin, “Back on track”, in Christian Science Monitor

An organization, location, or virtual location where science is done or exhibited, either professionally or educationally.


insectarium

insectarium (plural insectaria or insectariums)

insectaria (plural)
insectariums (plural)

A type of live insect zoo, or a museum or exhibit of live insects and similar arthropods.


space tourism

All of the space tourism has suffered because of a lack of interest in the space program.

1994 July 18, Debbi Land, quotee, “On the Space Nostalgia Frontier in Florida”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

(dated) Sightseeing and travel to sites related to the space program.

宇宙観光旅行

うちゅうかんこうりょこう


closed time loop

closed time loop (plural closed time loops)

(science fiction) A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it already happened, thus implying impossibility to change the past.


closed timelike curve

closed timelike curve (plural closed timelike curves)

(physics) A worldline that returns to its starting point.


Roman ring

closed timelike curve
closed timelike curve

A configuration of wormholes where for each individual wormhole the time difference across its mouths is such that it may not allow a closed timelike curve.


bootstrap paradox

bootstrap paradox (plural bootstrap paradoxes)

Compare bootstrap, pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, etc.

A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal loop in which each event is caused by the other.


chronovisor

A hypothetical machine that is able to see past and future events.

kronovizor

machine able to see past and future events


Tipler cylinder

Tipler cylinder (plural Tipler cylinders)

Named after American physicist Frank J. Tipler, who recognized the possibility of such a device in 1974.

A hypothetical massive, infinitely long cylinder spinning along its longitudinal axis, enabling time travel.


grandfather paradox

grandfather paradox (plural grandfather paradoxes)

From the paradox proposed by the French author René Barjavel in 1944 in his book Le Voyageur Imprudent, translated into English as "Future Times Three"; in its original form the paradox of one person going back to the past and killing their biological grandfather before the latter fathered the traveler's father, thus preventing the time traveler from ever being conceived in the first place.

The paradox of time travel in which inconsistencies emerge through changing the past.

Future Times Three
René Barjavel
grandfather paradox


autoinfanticide

For consider the most lurid implication of Gödel's idea – autoinfanticide.

2015, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, The Arrow of Time

The inventor of a time machine about to commit autoinfanticide in the past

2016, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machine Tales, page 212

(science fiction) The act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.


antimuseum

en-adj

antimuseum (comparative more antimuseum, superlative most antimuseum)

more antimuseum (comparative)
most antimuseum (superlative)

He had a clearly articulated antimuseum stance. His antagonism toward the museum as an institution did not take the form of trying to change the museum or subvert it from within. Instead, for a long time, he bypassed it altogether.

2001, Julie H. Reiss, From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art, page 29


minimuseum

Nassau County Museum of Art “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” an indoor and outdoor fantasy land at the minimuseum.

2009 May 31, “Events on Long Island”, in New York Times


VLOC

(aviation, travel) Abbreviation of vendor locator.


multimuseum

Of or pertaining to more than one museum.


Grand Tour

(cycling) One of the three most prominent cycling races: either the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.


thanatourism

Tourism involving travel to sites associated with death and suffering.


museum piece

Referring to the preservation of historic artifacts in museums.

These excursions proved popular, and it is, perhaps, not too much to hope that British Railways will revive the idea, and use museum pieces to stage exhibitions of trains of bygone days.

1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 660

An item worthy of being kept by a museum.


higher intermediate point

en-noun

higher intermediate point (plural higher intermediate points)

(travel, aviation, fare construction) A place on an itinerary to which there is a higher fare than the destination or next fare break point.


double open jaw

double open jaw (plural double open jaws)

(travel, aviation) A fare construction on a single return ticket where the origin and destination of the first flight are both different from the origin and destination on the return flight.


open jaw

(travel, aviation) A fare construction where the destination is not the same as the origin point for the return, or where the origin differs from the return destination.


American plan

(travel) a hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner


modified American plan

(travel) a hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but not lunch.


MAP

MAP (countable and uncountable, plural MAPs)

modified American plan
modified American plan#English

(travel) Initialism of modified American plan, a hotel rate that included accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but not lunch.


transtemporal

At the same time that their protagonists "step off the edge" of known experience by participating in interplanetary, interdimensional, or transtemporal travel, such writers as Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and (to a lesser degree) Ursula K. Le Guin propose through their narratives' complexity that the reader abandon the safety of a "readerly" text's conventional discourse.

1984, Natalie Myra Rosinsky, Feminist futures--contemporary women's speculative fiction, page 29

However, the Internet has also reversed the way we communicate in terms of the transspatial and transtemporal perspective.

2009, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Hassan Charaf, Mobile peer to peer (P2P): a tutorial guide, page 24

The fact is that many relations we are familiar with are transtemporal, that is, they obtain between entities located a different times.

2012, Fabrice Correia, Andrea Iacona, Around the Tree, page 38

“So, what, time travel?” “You accepted translocation, but transtemporal is too far?”

Transcending time; relating to time travel or to the influence or communication between one time and another.


architourism

Its luxury loft rooms attract international visitors seeking the "architourism" experience of staying in the only hotel housed in a Wright structure.

2004, "The Wright stuff: a reborn Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece attracts visitors to an Oklahoma oil town", Journal of Property Management, May/June 2004

Tourism involving seeing buildings and other architectural works.


architourist

There is so much to see in Chicago that it can be more than a little confusing for the would-be architourist.

1991 June 9, “Chicago's Good Place to Indulge Edifice Complex”, in St. Paul Pioneer Press

A tourist whose primary activity involves seeing buildings and other architectural works.


teleportal

(science fiction) A teleporter; a device for instantaneous travel.


Uffizi

From Italian Uffizi (literally “Offices”).

A major museum and art gallery in Florence, Italy.


NUC

neutral unit of construction
w:neutral unit of construction

(aviation, travel) Initialism of neutral unit of construction.


poorism

While some may view poorism tourist options as exploitation (and indeed they are), such exploration helps uncover the stark reality of human resilience[…]

2012, P. H. Liotta, James F. Miskel, The Real Population Bomb, page 136

(neologism) slum tourism; recreational visits to impoverished areas


daycation

You'll want a back-pocket, getaway idea to pull out when you have a free afternoon and the itch to take off for a while. Our "daycations" are just the ticket to satisfy mini wanderlust.

1986 June, Linda Pender, “Daycations”, in Cincinnati Magazine

(Canada, US) A single-day excursion or retreat.


workcation

(Canada, US, informal) A vacation that one spends getting work done.

trabacaciones

a vacation that one spends getting work done


haycation

In a world where small farmers need to diversify to keep their fields afloat and city dwellers are more desperate than ever to learn where their food comes from, a "haycation" for about the price of a nice hotel room in Manhattan didn’t seem like such a far-fetched idea.

2009 August 25, Kim Severson, “$300 a Night? Yes, but Haying’s Free”, in The New York Times

A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.


famil

(travel) A free or low cost trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a travel wholesaler or airline as a means of promoting their service.


tour guide

A person who provides assistance and information to people on organised tours.

проводни́к

esp. on a complicated or dangerous route


benefit tourism

Travel for the purpose of claiming benefits or social welfare.


run of house

(travel) A hotel rate where the hotel agrees to accommodate the guest but does not specify the standard of room until the guest arrives.


pseudo-city code

pseudo-city code (plural pseudo-city codes)

global distribution system
global distribution system

(travel) a short alpha-numeric code used by global distribution systems to differentiate between different travel agency offices.


accommodation on arrival

(travel, UK, Ireland) Hotel accommodation provided as part of the price of a package holiday, with the passenger not being advised of the hotel's name or location until arrival at the resort.


seat only

(travel, UK, Ireland, dated) A package holiday rate without confirmed accommodation reservations, or using a dummy reservation, enabling the tour operator to sell charter airline seats in competition with the airlines.


back to back ticket

back to back ticket (plural back to back tickets)

(travel, UK, Ireland) Any of a series of airline tickets, issued with overlapping travel dates, used to circumvent airfare minimum stay requirements.


cross-border ticket

cross-border ticket (plural cross-border tickets)

(travel, dated) A multi-sector airline ticket, issued for travel from a place that the passenger does not intend to fly from, in order to get a lower fare.


retention line

(travel) A future-dated line of text put in to an airline reservation system or GDS to delay the booking being moved to archives.


ticket designator

ticket designator (plural ticket designators)

(travel) a code on airline tickets to indicate what type of discount is applied, such as for a child or infant, or airline employee.


guaranteed arrival

guaranteed arrival (plural guaranteed arrivals)

(travel, hotel) A hotel reservation that is either pre-paid or confirmed to a credit card, and will be honoured regardless of how late the guest checks in.


go-show

(travel) The situation where a passenger checks in at an airport in the hope of getting an earlier flight than was reserved.


fare basis

(travel, aviation) An alphanumeric or alphabetic code used to indicate the type of fare used on an airline ticket, even if the fare is not shown.


VUSA

Thus, both domestic and international competition among U. S. carriers will tend to spread the benefits of attractive VUSAs to all international carriers […]

(travel) Abbreviation of visit USA.: a type of discounted airfare for travel within the United States that can only be sold outside the USA in conjunction with an international return fare starting outside the USA.


baggage check

(travel, aviation) the part of a boarding pass, or a separate stub, that identifies the passenger's baggage and permits it to be collected at the destination.


ticket vending machine

ticket vending machine (plural ticket vending machines)

In a very welcome move, ticket vending machines (TVMs) on the route have now added a phrase that explains it well. It lists all the London Terminals to which the ticket may be used, then adds the sentence: "The last rail leg of the journey must be on National Rail services."

2022 November 2, Barry Doe, “Better information on ticket machines”, in RAIL, number 969, page 61


ticket stamping machine

ticket stamping machine (plural ticket stamping machines)

(travel) An automatic machine that makes the ticket valid by stamping it with the location information and the timestamp.


ticket machine

Passengers may find themselves in a catch-22 situation, unable to buy a ticket for any number of reasons, ranging from an out-of-order ticket vending machine to a lengthy queue to use one, and yet then fall foul of the penalty fare regime.

2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42

(travel) A machine that prints tickets automatically after the customer determines the destination and pays for it.


adcol

(travel, aviation) Abbreviation of additional collection: the additional cost of airfare, taxes, and airline fees, on a reissued airline ticket


ACM

agency credit memo
agency credit memo#English

(travel) Initialism of agency credit memo.


ADM

agency debit memo
agency debit memo#English

(travel) Initialism of agency debit memo.


LCC

LCC (countable and uncountable, plural LCCs)

low cost carrier
low cost carrier#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of low cost carrier.


TTL

TTL (countable and uncountable, plural TTLs)

ticket time limit
ticket time limit#English

(aviation and travel) Initialism of ticket time limit.


UNMR

(travel, aviation) Abbreviation of unaccompanied minor.


clue card

(travel, aviation) A printed card with basic entries listed for a global distribution system.


global distribution system

global distribution system (plural global distribution systems)

(travel, aviation) a multi-access reservation system used by the travel industry and airlines. Abbreviated as GDS.


GDS

You see, middlemen are dying. Sabre, the former AA subsidiary that is now an independent global distribution system (GDS) supplying travel agencies and online travel agencies with ticket and pricing information, recently announced it was raising the rates it charges on AA tickets. This move was an escalation of a battle that has been brewing between airlines and GDSs.

2012, Kaihan Krippendorff, “Today's Business Revolution”, in Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore, John Wiley & Sons, page 21

Global Distribution System
global distribution system#English

(travel, aviation) Initialism of Global Distribution System.


ticket time limit

ticket time limit (plural ticket time limits)

(aviation, travel, fare construction) The date and time by which a ticket must be issued for a reservation to avoid cancellation of the booking and/or expiration of the fare quote.


DAPO

(aviation, travel) Acronym of do all possible (followed by requested task).


traffic conference area

traffic conference area (plural traffic conference areas)

(aviation, travel) any of the three IATA world-wide subdivisions used by the airline industry.


MSC

(aviation, travel) Initialism of Most Significant Carrier, a method used by some airlines to determine the baggage allowance of a multi-carrier air ticket.


ticketer

(aviation, travel) a person responsible for ticket issue.


telebooth

One point three parsecs from Earth a heartbeat was being monitored by an Amneshahn telebooth.

2005, J. E. Hoyes, The Empath of Amneshah, Book One: Turba, page 3

We have telebooths that take us considerable distances in an instant.

2007, Charles Edward Harris, Suns of God, page 196

(science fiction) A booth from which one can teleport to another location.


STPC

(travel, aviation) Initialism of stopover paid by carrier. Pre-arranged hotel transit accommodation, paid by an airline to encourage use of a bad connection on their services.


FLIFO

(travel, aviation) Abbreviation of flight information.


end item

(dated, travel, aviation) (In an airline reservation system) a symbol, usually represented by the hash or plus key, used to join several lines of instruction together without the need to enter each separately.


boat train

In 1906 the cross-channel service was inaugurated between Fishguard and Rosslare Harbour. For this the Great Southern & Western Railway built two boat trains of corridor stock, with a restaurant car (57½ ft. in length), to run between Rosslare and Cork.

1943 July and August, “Restaurant-Car Services in Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 210

In January BR were attacked by three of the country's major shipping companies for the poor standards of boat train services run from Tilbury and Southampton Docks.

1964 March, “News and Comment: Stormy passage for BR boat trains”, in Modern Railways, page 153

(UK, Ireland, travel, rail transport) A travel service with a train timed to arrive at a ferry port in time for the onward travel by ferry (or vice versa). Alternatively, a service scheduled to connect with the arrival or departure of an ocean liner.


vendor locator

(aviation, travel) A unique alphanumeric reference given by a computer reservations system to each sector of a travel booking.


agency credit memo

agency credit memo (plural agency credit memos)

(aviation, travel) an official notification that a travel agency has overpaid an airline for a ticket or similar travel arrangements.


agency debit memo

agency debit memo (plural agency debit memos)

(aviation, travel) An official notification that a travel agency has underpaid an airline for a ticket or similar, or is being fined by the airline for failure to adhere to fare rules or airline policy.


SOTI

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold outside, ticketed inside. (relative to the country of origin of travel).


SOTO

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold outside, ticketed outside,(relative to the country of origin of travel).


SITO

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold inside, ticketed outside, (relative to the country of origin of travel).


SITI

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold inside, ticketed inside. (relative to the country of origin of travel).


European plan

(travel, hotels) A hotel rate that includes accommodation, but not meals.


excess baggage

Watch your weight: Excess baggage is damaging to the wallet. Airlines charge typically from $20 to $30 a kilogram.

2003 August 29, Roger Collis, “Frequent Traveler: Send blues packing”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-20

(literally, travel) Luggage which exceeds the allowable size or weight (as for an airline flight or train trip), and for which an extra fee must therefore be paid.


shinrinyoku

Borrowed from Japanese 森林浴 (shinrin'yoku しんりんよく, “forest bathing”), from Middle Chinese 森林 (ʂim-lim, “forest”) + 浴 (jowk, “bathe”).

bor

In Japanese culture, a recreational trip to the forest for relaxation and well-being; forest bathing.


ecomuseum

A museum, often consisting of replica buildings in an outdoor setting, that shows the heritage of a particular locality or community


warp drive

(physics, science fiction) A technological device that warps spacetime to enable movement through space in a non-Newtonian manner.


miscellaneous charge order

en-noun

miscellaneous charge order (plural miscellaneous charge orders)

(travel, aviation, dated) An accountable document similar to an airline ticket, used to pay for travel related services such as hotels and car hire.


ticket point mileage

ticket point mileage (plural ticket point mileages)

(travel, aviation) An officially stated distance between two cities, used in airline fare calculations regardless of the airports used


MPM

MPM (countable and uncountable, plural MPMs)

maximum permitted mileage
maximum permitted mileage#English

(travel, aviation) Initialism of maximum permitted mileage.


maximum permitted mileage

maximum permitted mileage (plural maximum permitted mileages)

ticket point mileage
ticket point mileage

(aviation, travel) In fare construction, the permitted total of ticket point mileages allowed between two fare break points.


fare break point

fare break point (plural fare break points)

(travel, aviation, fare construction) Any of the cities on an itinerary used as the start and finish of a particular fare.


museumobile

Despite the costs involved in establishing and maintaining a program like the Parkmobile, our experience suggests that museumobiles are uniquely suited for use in rural areas where you cannot expect your public to come to the museum […]

A vehicle that operates as a mobile museum.


CKIN

(travel, aviation) Abbreviation of check-in.


birth tourism

In Ireland,a sort of birth tourism emerged in which non-EU nationals sought to give birth there to secure citizenship for their children and exemption from deportation for themselves

2005, Matthew J. Gibney, Randall Hansen, Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present, Volume 1, page 346

Ground zero for U.S. birth tourism appears to be San Gabriel Valley, located in the county of Los Angeles.

2011 April 6, Ray Kwong, “Invasion of the Pregnant Women from China”, in Forbes, retrieved 2014-02-17

The Harper government is considering changes to the citizenship rules to target so-called birth tourism — where a foreign national comes to Canada to give birth so the baby can get Canadian citizenship.

2012 March 5, Prithi Yelaja, “'Birth tourism' may change citizenship rules”, in CBC News, Canada, retrieved 2014-02-16

“Birth tourism” is a xenophobic myth.

2012 April 20, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Carola Suarez-Orozco, “Opinion: Deporting Parents Hurts Kids”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-02-16

(idiomatic) Travel from one country to another for the purpose of giving birth in the second country, thereby endowing the newborn child with citizenship of the second country.


retrocausally

By means of, or in terms of, retrocausality.


no-tell motel

Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme.

There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.

2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, page 120

(slang) A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.


hypertravel

(science fiction) travel through hyperspace


museumification

The process of conversion into a museum.


winter sun

(UK, Ireland, travel) The off-season holiday market, typically to destinations in North Africa and Southern Europe.


married sector

(travel, aviation, fare construction) Any of two or more flight sectors in an itinerary that can not be rebooked or changed separately from the other sectors, due to fare rules or market restrictions.


PIR

property irregularity report
property irregularity report#English

(countable, aviation, travel) Initialism of property irregularity report: a form to be filled in when baggage is lost by an airline.


flight status

(aviation, travel) An updated notice of a flight's departure and arrival times compared to its scheduled times.


Alcubierre drive

Alcubierre drive (plural Alcubierre drives)

Named after theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre.

A hypothetical means of faster-than-light propulsion, based on the controlled contraction and expansion of surrounding space.


poshtel

Was it some sort of marketing ploy to drive the declining tourist revenues? More importantly, did it live up to the hype? I strolled around this poshtel in search of answers.

2009 August 15, Louisa Lim, “The ‘poshtel’”, in The Star, Malaysia

The boutique Safestay hostel, a so-called “poshtel”, is to be floated on AIM by way of a demerger from Safeland, the property company that formed the business three years ago in a joint venture with Moorfield Group.

2014 March 21, Dominic Walsh, “Safestay takes its poshtel to market”, in The Times, UK

Should you make it to one of the most popular places, Britain, you may want to experience a rising trend: the so-called poshtel, a kind of elegant hostel such as Hoax or Safestay.

2015, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Where Will Americans Travel in 2015?”, in The New York Times


girlcation

Mancations and girlcations are all the rage. Getting away with your best buddies isn't new, but it's a hot niche market for the travel industry with lots of packages, hotels and resorts offering up bonding opportunities galore.

2008 September 18, Joanne Richard, “The great escapes”, in The Observer, Sarnia, Ontario

So when Paula asked me during our July “girlcation” if she could take up my search, I was game.

2010 September, Lynette Majer, “The best gift of all”, in Northside, number 72, page 3

When my friends and I were in Manhattan last year on a girlcation, we took public transportation everywhere, and it was both invigorating and slightly stinky.

2012, Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, B & H Publishing Group, page 127

(informal) A vacation taken by a group of women, sometimes catering specifically to female interests.


nearcation

Economic downturns and high gas prices may restrain the urge to travel, but they don't eliminate it. To fill this ever-present urge, people replace vacations to faraway places with “staycations” or “nearcations.”

2010, Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards, & Peter Economy, Home-Based Business for Dummies, Wiley

My 'nearcation' was in Brittany, France's very own Celtic fringe where you're most likely to feel at home if you're from Ireland.

2012 September 22, Edward McCann, “Great Brittany”, in Belfast Telegraph

"But if petrol prices stay high and rail fares continue to rise, staycations may increasingly evolve into 'nearcations'."

2012 October 22, “Britons increasingly opting for 'nearcations'”, in The Telegraph

A vacation to a destination relatively close to one's home.


Tipler time machine

Tipler time machine (plural Tipler time machines)


RBD

reservation booking designator
reservation booking designator#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of reservation booking designator.


travelcard

A pass allowing for discounts when travelling.


roadbook

"For a few days, Michel wasn't happy with the roadbook.

2009 January 16, AFP, “'I didn't see danger spot' - Carlos Sainz”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-01-17

A diagrammatic book describing a rally route.


togethering

(travel) The practice of arranging joint travel or vacations, as a group.


abortion tourism

Travel for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.


fare ladder

(aviation, travel, dated) a breakdown of destinations, airfare, taxes, and surcharges, shown on a paper ticket in a vertical multi-column format.


short tag

en-verb

short tag (third-person singular simple present short tags, present participle short tagging, simple past and past participle short tagged)

short tags (present singular third-person)
short tagging (participle present)
short tagged (participle past)
short tagged (past)

(travel, aviation) to check a bag through to an intermediate point on an itinerary rather than the destination.


excursion fare

Bands of Musicians conveyed in ordinary advertised Excursion Trains are charged the full excursion fare, but when accompanying Guaranteed Excursions, or travelling in Excursion Trains to Brass Band Contests, they are conveyed at half the Excursion Fare.

1869 January, Regulations of the Railway Clearing House, James Truscott & Son (London), p. 109 (Google preview)

As of Jan. 1, Pan American will offer lower round‐trip economy excursion fares in some instances.

1964 December 27, “The Field of Travel”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-10-20

The excursion fare of £64 return, for trips of up to six nights, includes a berth in an "economy" cabin.

2014 February 5, Simon Calder, “of the Week: A Boat”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-10-20

(travel) A fare for travel by land, air, or water which is less expensive than the regular fare, and which usually depends on special conditions, such as round-trip travel, payment in advance, or restrictions in duration of stay.


Back to the Future Day

It's Back to the Future Day - the date Marty and Doc crashed the future in the second of the three time-hopping sci-fi adventure films.

2015 October 20, Leo Kelion, “Back to the Future II: What did it get right and wrong?”, in BBC

For anyone who is still confused, Back to the Future Day marks the fact that today is the date specified for the "future" setting in the 1989 Back to the Future II film.

2015 October 21, Adam Withnall, “Department for Work and Pensions fails to appeal to public with 'Back to the Future Day' tweet”, in The Independent

Back to the Future Day is over. The exact time Marty and Doc Brown travel forward to from 1985 - has been and gone. This time round.

2015 October 21, Barney Henderson, Rupert Hawksley, Helena Horton, “Back to the Future Day live: Is October 21, 2015 turning out like the film predicted?”, in The Atlantic

Following Back to the Future Day on October 21, the countdown to Halloween has well and truly begun.

2016 October 15, “Last Minute 'Back To The Future' Halloween Costumes That You Can Throw Together Tonight”, in Bustle

We're one year on from "Back to the Future Day," which marked the date Marty McFly visited the future in the 1989 classic "Back to the Future: Part II." The film predicted flat screens and drones, and today it seems one more of its many forecasts for the future is on the verge of coming true.

2016 October 25, Eric Mack, “'Back to the Future' predicted this World Series, sort of”, in C/NET

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael J. Fox was the first person to get a pair of the power-lace shoes last year, "coinciding with Back to the Future Day on Oct. 21, 2015, the exact future date in Back to the Future: Part II that Marty travels to from 1985."

2017 February 27, Kaitlin Kimont, “Where To Get Seth Rogen's 'Back To The Future' Nike Sneakers From the 2017 Oscars,”, in Romper

The date October 21, 2015, regarded as commemorative of the movie Back to the Future Part II, in which the main characters use a time machine to travel to this date from the year 1985.


ER=EPR

From ER (Einstein-Rosen bridge) and EPR (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox).

quantum entanglement
quantum entanglement

(quantum mechanics) A conjecture equating the effects of quantum entanglement (EPR) with a wormhole (ER) connection between the entangled particles, relating quantum physics to spacetime physics.


reval

(travel, aviation, informal) A revalidated ticket.


Lufty

(informal) Lufthansa (German national airline)


property irregularity report

en-noun

property irregularity report (plural property irregularity reports)

(aviation, travel) An official form to be filled out if checked baggage is lost or damaged by an airline.


reaccommodate

en-verb

reaccommodate (third-person singular simple present reaccommodates, present participle reaccommodating, simple past and past participle reaccommodated)

reaccommodates (present singular third-person)
reaccommodating (participle present)
reaccommodated (participle past)
reaccommodated (past)

(aviation, travel) to rebook a passenger on a flight when the original flight is cancelled.


future history

en-noun

future history (countable and uncountable, plural future histories)

(countable) A postulated history of the future that is used by authors in the subgenre of science fiction to construct a common background for fiction.


tartanry

kitsch elements of Scottish culture, emphasized by the tourist industry


flight number

(aviation, travel) A callsign assigned to a commercial flight for the purposes of reservation and ticketing, typically consisting of a 2 character airline code and a 1 to 4 digit number to indicate a particular service.


OID

(aviation, travel) Initialism of office ID.


IAS

(aviation, travel) Initialism of insert after segment; GDS code, and used on older types of airline keyboards.


romance tourism

Travel to another region or jurisdiction to seek a romantic relationship.


MEDA

(aviation, travel, initialism) Medical Fitness for Air Travel


lead name

(travel) the first named person on an invoice, typically the person having control over the contract.


six-month club

(US, travel) The official Customs and Border Protection list of countries whose citizens do not require six months' validity on their passport on arrival in the United States.


forward time machine

forward time machine (plural forward time machines)

(science fiction) A time machine that can only allow travel to the future, but cannot also allow travel to the past.


backwards time machine

backwards time machine (plural backwards time machines)

(science fiction) A time machine that can only allow travel to the past, but cannot also allow travel to the future.


piece system

(aviation, travel) Airline baggage allowance that restricts passengers to a specific number of bags, rather than a specific weight.


guest ranch

A type of ranch oriented towards visitors or tourism.


timeship

(science fiction) A vehicle like a spaceship that travels through time.


pizza farm

An educational visitor attraction in the form of a small farm on a circular piece of land partitioned into plots shaped like pizza wedges. Each plot produces one ingredient that can be used in pizza, such as wheat, tomatoes, or pork.


tachyonic antitelephone

tachyonic antitelephone (plural tachyonic antitelephones)


OBC

(travel, cruising) Initialism of onboard credit.


booking class

(aviation, travel) (in a reservation system) The letter used to signify a particular fare level.


reservation booking designator

reservation booking designator (plural reservation booking designators)

reservation booking designators (plural)


SIPP

SIPP (countable and uncountable, plural SIPPs)

(travel, car hire) Acronym of standard interline passenger procedure. A series of four-letter codes used to indicate a type of vehicle.


fast sheet

I drove down South Parkway. Who did I spy coming out of a fast sheet joint at Forty-sixth Street? One Pocket with a young broad from big foot country.

2011, Iceberg Slim, Trick Baby, page 207

When she couldn't repay the loan, he introduced Red to hardcore gorilla tactics and gangstered her into the fast sheets and the street game.

2012, James Robinson, Gospel of the Game, page 185

(slang, chiefly attributive) A hotel or similar establishment catering to prostitutes.


vworp

Imitative of the sound made by the TARDIS in Doctor Who (originally produced by sound technician Brian Hodgson by electronically modifying a recording of a key scraping along a piano string).

With a vworp of displaced air, a Double of Bob appeared. Every detail was perfect save the eyes for some reason unknown. Instead of their clear blue, they were the deep green usually associated with impending violence. Nobody was looking so nobody noticed however.

2005 March 31, Clayton, “Re: [PW!] To the Tourney”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet)

A cyclic wheezing, groaning noise began as Vin approach the back wall. The vworp vworp noise was synchronized with a flashing blue light on top, as the gigantic three-dimensional holographic wall displayed a London 1950 police call box. Vin snatched the door open, stepping inside.

2010 February 18, "danw" ("DAWootan"), {ASSM} OTEC_204_Years, alt.sex.stories.moderated

A voice cackled all evil-like and then lightning struck the tower and with a vworp it disappeared! Gosh!

2014 February 23, Drew Perron, MISC: Spies With Badges: "Junior Spies The First Movie", rec.arts.comics.creative, Usenet

No sooner had the spell been cast than it was broken by a sound from outside the castle; the loud, rough, grinding, metallic grunting sound—vworp-vworp-vworp!—of some machine trying to come to life or die quickly.

2019, Lucy A. Snyder, While the Black Stars Burn

(onomatopoeia) Representing the sound made by teleporting or dematerialising/rematerialising.


HX

en-verb

HX (third-person singular simple present HXs, present participle HXing, simple past and past participle HXed)

HXs (present singular third-person)
HXing (participle present)
HXed (participle past)
HXed (past)

From the GDS code that shows on the booking against the affected segment.

Hurry and issue the ticket or the airline will HX the reservation.

The airline oversold and they have HXed the passenger's booking.

(aviation, travel, informal, abbreviation) (of an airline) to have an airline booking cancelled by the airline.


kilolight

I said slowly: “I must be making a megalight, or more, an hour. At this rate the journey will take about two weeks—” “Yes,” Lipsey said. “We think the Xeelee have a range of hyperdrive capabilities. The standard intragalactic version is limited to a kilolight an hour, ...

2016, Stephen Baxter, Xeelee Sequence, Hachette UK

(science fiction) a unit of distance equal to one thousand light-years; a kilolight-year


bikepacking

Bikepacking, as the name implies, is a harmonization of backpacking and cycling that is typically synonymous with a lightweight setup for touring, often off-road. Both ultralight touring and bikepacking are based on the principle that less is more.

2015, Justin Lichter, Justin Kline, Basic Illustrated Bike Touring and Bikepacking, Rowman & Littlefield, page 32

He [Iohan Gueorguiev] was a star in the world of “bikepacking,” long-distance bike travel conducted off main roads.

2021 October 11, Alex Traub, “Iohan Gueorguiev, ‘Bike Wanderer’ of the Wilderness, Dies at 33”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Recreational multiday travel on a bicycle, often off-road and with minimal camping gear.


PPBM

(aviation, travel) Positive Passenger Bag Match. An airline system used to ensure that baggage is not loaded on an aircraft if the passenger does not board.


overtourism

As evidenced in the overtourism concept, residents may become resentful of the intrusions of visitors and visitors' impacts on their ways of living (Figure 9.2). Thus, it is essential that residents are involved and have a strong say […]

2018, Alastair M. Morrison, Marketing and Managing Tourism Destinations, Routledge, page 94

If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin: selfie-stick deaths, all-you-can-eat ships docking at historic ports, stag nights that end in property crimes, the live-streaming of the ruination of fragile natural habitats, et cetera.

2019 June 4, Annie Lowrey, “Too Many People Want to Travel”, in The Atlantic

After years in the making, Venice will on Thursday begin charging day trippers to enter the city in an effort to protect the Unesco world heritage site from the effects of over-tourism.

2024 April 24, Angela Giuffrida, “Venice access fee: what is it and how much does it cost?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN


happy landings

en-noun

happy landings pl (normally plural, singular happy landing)

We want our airplane pilots to anticipate failed engines as well as happy landings.

2009, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, page 198

Happy landings: every minute of every hour of every day, an average of 38 people touch down at Orlando airport, gateway to the centre of the Sunshine State.

2017 January 20, Simon Calder, “Discover the other side of Florida – Kissimmee”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2018-06-05

(travel, especially aviation) Successful arrivals on land (by air or water), without any untoward incidents.


jumpgate

Einstein-Rosen bridge
Einstein-Rosen bridge

(science fiction) A fictional device able to create an Einstein-Rosen bridge portal (or wormhole), allowing fast travel between two points in space.


right of repentance

right of repentance (plural rights of repentance)

(aviation, travel, consumer law) The right of a passenger, in some jurisdictions, to obtain a full refund on an airline ticket within a specific period of time.


warpfield

(physics) A field associated with the warping of spacetime


chronoportation

chronoportation (usually uncountable, plural chronoportations)

1961: Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Volume 67, Issue 4, "The Judas Bug" by Kelly Freas
Too bad that chronoportation is not yet fully developed. If it were, we could go back and perhaps help the old professor figure out a gimmick for storing his universal solvent.

1988:Robert Crossley, introduction to Kindred by Octavia Butler
Perhaps Butler deliberately sacrificed the neat closure that a scientific--or even pseudo-scientific--explanation of telekinesis and chronoportation would have given her novel.

Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one temporal (and possibly spatial) point to another, generally instantaneously.

A technique to send one's mind to another time.


guided tour

Oliver immediately gets a guided tour, Felix wheeling through libraries and endless colour-coded rooms, up and down staircases and along echoing halls where various "dead relly[s]" stare down from the walls.

2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC

A tour with commentary that provides information about what one is seeing.


wayback machine

wayback machine (plural wayback machines)

From the WABAC machine in the animated cartoon Mister Peabody, from way back (“long ago”). According to Gerard Baldwin, one of the show's directors, the spelling was a reference to the UNIVAC I computer.

I can't set Mr. Peabody's wayback machine to July 1, 1863, and take my entire class of fifth graders on a field trip to show them what the Battle of Gettysburg was like. I don't have a wayback machine.

2008, Terry Thompson, Adventures in Graphica

The star middle linebacker, who will go down in history as one of the Bears' best and most popular players, willingly jumped in the wayback machine and stopped it on a game during his second NFL season.

2008, Lew Freedman, The 50 Greatest Plays in Chicago Bears Football History, page 42

Reduced to its core, originalism promises that judges can ride a constitutional wayback machine, taking orders from the esteemed Founders.

2014, Michael Waldman, The Second Amendment: A Biography, page 111

So let's set the wayback machine to 2009 to show an example of what I was doing back then.

2014, Michael Mowbray, Shoot to Thrill: Speedlight Flash Techniques for Photographers

A time machine or other means of revisiting information about the past.

Wayback Machine (Peabody's Improbable History)


dark tourism

The growing popularity of dark tourism suggests more and more people are resisting vacations that promise escapism, choosing instead to witness firsthand the sites of suffering they have only read about, said Gareth Johnson, a founder of Young Pioneer Tours, which organized trips for Ms. Joyce and Mr. Faarlund.

2022 October 28, Maria Cramer, “Beaches? Cruises? ‘Dark’ Tourists Prefer the Gloomy and Macabre”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Recreational travel to view the sites of former atrocities.


eventscape

By the 1950s, the eventscapes of Vancouver's Chinatown were indeed becoming mainstream attractions.

2014, Stephen Page, Joanne Connell, The Routledge Handbook of Events, page 406

Using outdoor spaces for events generates media coverage of identifiable cityscapes and it dramatises them, creating eventscapes.

2015, Andrew Smith, Events in the City: Using public spaces as event venues, page 50

There are a number of studies of the tourist consumption of cities as eventscapes that illustrate how a European matrix of perfect “citiness” has influenced not only travelers, but city planners, brand-makers, and local politicians, who learned to see their city through the tourist mode of consumption (see Willim 2005; Marling and Zerlang 2007).

2015, Ullrich Kockel, Máiréad Nic Craith, Jonas Frykman, A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe, page 346

(tourism) A location viewed as the venue for a public event.


avitourism

tourism that has opportunities for birdwatching


psychocentric

en-adj

psychocentric (comparative more psychocentric, superlative most psychocentric)

more psychocentric (comparative)
most psychocentric (superlative)

The adjective is derived from psycho- (prefix meaning ‘relating to the mind or soul’) + -centric (suffix meaning ‘having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention’). The noun is probably derived from the adjective.
Adjective sense 2 (“of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks”) and the noun sense (“tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks”) were coined by the American travel researcher Stanley C. Plog in a paper presented to the Southern California Chapter of the Travel Research Association on 10 October 1972, which was later published in February 1974: see the quotation.

coinage

These experts type some aerophobes as psychocentric individuals so self-focused on imaginary problems they have little energy left to enjoy life. Other fearful flyers are stymied by territory-boundedness—an unadventurous spirit.

1972, Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108, column 1

Members of the near-psychocentric and psychocentric segment, the remaining segment (15–20%), prefer a destination that does not exhibit its foreign culture. These tourists spend all of their time inside tourism complexes, stay for shorter periods of time, and are not big spenders. They are bargain hunters, and look for low-cost vacation spots.

1991, Ugur Yucelt, Phyllis W. Isley, “Marketing of Tourism in a Competitive World Environment”, in Erdener Kaynak, editor, International Marketing: Sociopolitical and Behavioral Aspects, Binghamton, N.Y.: International Business Press, The Haworth Press, section V (Special International Marketing Topics), page 369

[Stanley C.] Plog (1974, 1990, 1991b) delineated personality types along a continuum ranging from allocentrism to psychocentrism. The psychocentric personality type tends toward territory boundedness, insecurity, and powerlessness. Psychocentric individuals also tend to have non-active lifestyles and are non-adventurous. In contrast, allocentric individuals tend to be self-confident, intellectually curious, and feel in control of their lives.

1995, Robert Madrigal, “Personal Values, Traveler Personality Type, and Leisure Travel Style”, in Journal of Leisure Research, volume 27, number 2, Arlington, Va.: National Recreation and Park Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-14, page 128

Remember that whether a tourist is more psychocentric or more allocentric depends on the different motivations and the different destinations chosen by the tourist. The tourist may also oscillate between both psychocentric and allocentric choices. For example, a tourist may choose an allocentric holiday in December to a remote game reserve, but have a psychocentric short break in July to Singapore, where he or she may prefer a package tour and will stick to the touristy areas of town.

2003, “Tourism Motivation and Behaviour”, in Berendien Lubbe, editor, Tourism Management in Southern Africa, Cape Town, Western Cape: Pearson Education South Africa, published 2005, part 2 (The Demand for Tourism), page 38, column 2

(psychology, tourism) Of a tourist: tending to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar; self-inhibiting.


psychocentric

[A] non-flyer was likely to experience many of these same problems which often resulted in very severely restricted life styles. Basically, we can see that this is a self inhibited, nervous, and non-adventuresome type of person. We call this individual the Psychocentric, from "psyche" meaning "self," and "centric" meaning the centering of one's thoughts or concerns on the small problem areas of one's life.

1974 February, Stanley C. Plog, “Why Destination Areas Rise and Fall in Popularity”, in Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, volume 14, number 4, Ithaca, N.Y.: School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55, column 2

Currently, given the high level of visibility ski touring is experiencing, peer influence becomes more of a factor as participants are drawn from the marginally interested population and the "psychocentrics" or followers.

1980, Timothy B. Knopp, G. Ballman, L. C. Merriam, “The Dynamics of Recreation Participation: Ski Touring in Minnesota”, in Proceedings: 1980 National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium (USDA Forest Service General Technical Report; NE-57), volume II, Broomall, Pa.: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 77, column 2

According to [Stanley C.] Plog (1991b), psychocentrics tend to prefer a high degree of familiarity in their travel and, as a result, enjoy group or "packaged" tours. In contrast, allocentrics enjoy vacations to exotic and unique destinations, and prefer to travel independently (i.e., not as part of group tours).

[P]sychocentrics could conceivably vacation in essentially allocentric destinations (with the exception of people with extremely low incomes). For instance, a psychocentric may travel to a remote area under the security of a completely planned, fully escorted tour. In other words, the security provided by travelling with a group of similar tourists, and being escorted at all times, may persuade a psychocentric to travel, say, to Asia.

1999, K. K. Sharma, “Tourism Psychology and Motivation”, in Tourism and Culture, New Delhi: Prabhat Kumar Sharma for Sarup & Sons, published 2004, page 189

Psychocentrics do not want to try anything new until they are sure of what it is like. The psychocentric waits for friends to do something and will follow whatever is in fashion. Simply put, psychocentrics are at ease only when within their comfort zone, while allocentrics are driven to leave their comfort zone on a regular basis.
Applied in an employment context.]

[2001, Doris S. Davidoff, Philip G. Davidoff, Donald M. Davidoff, Douglas G. Davidoff, “The Classic Motivation Mistake”, in Parenting the Office, Gretna, New Orleans, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, page 209

[Stanley C.] Plog recognised that personalities change over time, and given time, the psychocentrics may become allocentric in their choice of holiday destination and activity as they gain experience of travel. It has long been accepted that many tourists actually seek novelty from a base of security and familiarity. This enables the psychocentric to enjoy more exotic forms of tourism.

2020, J. Christopher Holloway, Claire Humphreys, “The Demand for Tourism”, in The Business of Tourism, 11th edition, London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, part 1 (Defining and Analysing Tourism and Its Impacts), page 75

Another typology of tourists was introduced by [Stanley C.] Plog (1991), who used psychographic analysis to create a continuum of tourist types. While Plog's model is a continuum with indefinite points, he was able to divide tourists into five main groups: psychocentrics, near psychocentrics, midcentrics, near allocentrics, and allocentrics. […] At the one extreme, psychocentrics are those travellers that are not adventurous, and seek amenities and culture similar to their home environment. At the other end of the continuum, an allocentric tourist is very adventurous, seeks and embraces different cultures, local food, and requires only basic tourism infrastructure.

2020, Peter Robinson, Michael Lück, Stephen L. J. Smith, “Responsible Tourism Management”, in Tourism, 2nd edition, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Boston, Mass.: CABI, part 5 (Tourism Development), page 366, column 1

(psychology, tourism) A tourist who tends to avoid adventures and risks, preferring the familiar.


whale safari

(tourism) A sea excursion organised for the purpose of whale watching.


geotourism

tourism in which the main purpose is to view or study geological or geographical features


class tourism

The matter of whether Hawaii is to be given over to “mass” or “class” tourism will obviously have been settled by then, and in favor of the former, for the early 1970s will see the 500-passenger “Jumbo” jets come winging in.

1968, Richard Austin Smith, chapter 8, in The Frontier States: Alaska, Hawaii,, New York: Time-Life Books, page 151

1971, Mary McCarthy, Birds of America, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, “A Sibylline Interlude,” p. 284,
I feared you might be one of those snobs who distinguish between class tourism and mass tourism.

The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, which opened Washington’s home as a national shrine in 1860, reacted ambivalently toward later proposals for electric streetcar service between Washington and Mount Vernon. They worried that the “wrong sort” of people would flood their property. Indeed, they felt that mass tourism as opposed to class tourism could compromise the diffusion of Washington’s legacy.

2011, Daniel Bluestone, chapter 10, in Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation, New York: W.W. Norton, page 242

Tourism catering to a wealthy elite (contrasted with mass tourism).


comfort stop

A pause in a long road journey so that travellers can go to the toilet


telepad

(science fiction) A platform on which a person or object is placed in order to be teleported elsewhere.


teletransporter

(science fiction) A teleportation device.


teletransport

en-verb

teletransport (third-person singular simple present teletransports, present participle teletransporting, simple past and past participle teletransported)

teletransports (present singular third-person)
teletransporting (participle present)
teletransported (participle past)
teletransported (past)

In the old Star Trek movies man teletransports, rematerializes, in a new cyber-spectacle.

2001, Science Fiction and Organization, page 109; republished United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2003 August 29

Again, the thought experiments need to explain how a person could be teletransported from one place to another.

2010 July 20, Christopher Daly, An Introduction to Philosophical Methods, Broadview Press

The ship hovered behind the moon of Hades just enough to give them a clear line of sight to teletransport to the planet’s surface.

2012 December 13, Logan Keen, House of Gideon: Before the Myth, Abbott Press, page 91

At eighteen hundred hours, Technis time, the two people allowed by the invite will be teletransported to the surface.

2016 February 18, Anna Hackett, Phoenix Adventures Box Set: A SciFi Romance Collection


travel book

A book about travelling to a certain region, such as a memoir or guide book.


time loop

(chiefly science fiction) A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken.


dehost

dehost (third-person singular simple present dehosts, present participle dehosting, simple past and past participle dehosted)

dehosts (present singular third-person)
dehosting (participle present)
dehosted (participle past)
dehosted (past)

(transitive, aviation, travel) To separate (a CRS or GDS) from the internal reservation system of an airline.


timegate

(science fiction) A portal enabling time travel.


self-guided

en-adj

self-guided (comparative more self-guided, superlative most self-guided)

more self-guided (comparative)
most self-guided (superlative)

(not comparable) (of a tour, etc.) done without a guide


metatime

en-noun

metatime (countable and uncountable, plural metatimes)

This second representation is fictitious in the sense that we are allowing agents to be present in a market that opens in meta-time and we are representing the generational structure by restrictions on the trades that agents are able to make.

1999, Roger E. A. Farmer, Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies, page 213f.

How does the concept of sacred metatime fit into the scientific worldview, which proposes both a Big Bang at the beginning of this universe[…]

2008, James R. Adair, Introducing Christianity, page 38

Now consider what happens when the Terminators travel back in time to 1994. They travel back to a 1994 that is located at a different metatime, t₂.

2009 May 13, William Irwin, Richard Brown, Kevin S. Decker, Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am, page 149

My Setacia story was, I admit, simplistic—deliberately, riskily so—but its main purpose was to present a valid point about time and meta-time.

2014 July 24, Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion, page 148

A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.


point of departure

point of departure (plural points of departure)

[…] the point of departure is Hong Kong International Airport.

2021 January 23, 刘强, “Greater Bay Airlines applies to HKSAR for routes”, in China.org.cn, retrieved 2021-02-01


vaccine passport

vaccine passport (plural vaccine passports)

Record your vaccinations and PCR tests in a “vaccine passport” app or paper document—proof likely will be required for international travel.

2018, Rory Moulton, Essential Amsterdam Travel Tips

A document that proves vaccination against (certain) infectious diseases, particularly for the purpose of international travel.


hard class

One main line only can show any mile-a-minute running, and that is the straight and reasonably level 404 miles between Moscow and Leningrad. There are two diesel-hauled expresses in each direction daily—rather oddly carrying "hard class" passengers only—which cover the distance in 6hr 20min [...].

1962 December, “Beyond the channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418

(travel, informal) A class of accommodation, typically on trains, which is less comfortable than other classes, and might have wooden seating.


tourist attraction

tourist attraction (plural tourist attractions)

A place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its cultural value, beauty, or historical significance, offering leisure and amusement.


duck tour

From the DUKW amphibious vehicle, which many of these tours use.

A tour that takes place on an amphibious vehicle, going on land and on water.


budget airline

I'll be interested to see how this service does. It will be basic with fares to match, so will be akin to a budget airline taking on a flag-carrier.

2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52


day return

Special cheap day return facilities have been introduced to popularise the railbuses.

1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Railbuses on the W.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 121

(travel, UK) A reduced-price fare and ticket for a journey on public transport out and back in one day.


black sand

black sand (countable and uncountable, plural black sands)

(tourism) Basaltic sand of volcanic origin, frequently found associated with volcanic islands.


EPR telephone

From EPR + telephone. From being a method of transmission (telephone) in non-linear quantum physics where faster-than-light (FTL) communication (non-local communication) is possible, as described in the EPR paradox proposed by Einstein, Poldolsky, Rosen, violating relativity. Coined by American physicist Joseph Polchinski in 1990.

coin

Schrödinger equation
Schrödinger equation#English

A method of transmission of information non-locally, allowing FTL communication and back-in-time communication, through application of Steven Weinberg's proposed non-linear fields in quantum physics on entangled particles, accessing hidden variables of the Schrödinger equation.


boutique hotel

A small hotel in settings with upscale accommodations and individualized unique selling points.


space tourist

Pundits predict that the first space tourists could be in orbit by 2005.

1997 July 18, Roger Collis, “Space Tourism:Ready for Liftoff?”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN

On April 30, 2001, US millionaire Dennis Tito arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) via a Russian Soyuz rocket, becoming the world’s first space tourist.

2021 July 20, Francesca Street, “First space tourist Dennis Tito: ‘It was the greatest moment of my life’”, in CNN Travel

Every visitor has a full state of experiments to conduct during their stay - which is partly why they don't like being called space tourists.

2022 April 10, “Millionaire space tourists welcomed aboard space station after paying $55m each”, in Sky News


see the world

en-verb

see the world (third-person singular simple present sees the world, present participle seeing the world, simple past saw the world, past participle seen the world)

sees the world (present singular third-person)
seeing the world (participle present)
saw the world (past)
seen the world (participle past)

Join the Navy to see the world [recruitment pitch]

(informal) To travel extensively; to experience many different places.


living museum

A type of museum which recreates historical settings to simulate a past time period, providing visitors with an experiential interpretation of history; a museum which incorporates living history.


abortion tourist

en-noun

abortion tourist (plural abortion tourists)

Someone who travels for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.


Golden Circle

[A] secretive group called the Knights of the Golden Circle, which sought to create an even larger slave empire than Walker had. The “Golden Circle” was centered on Cuba, and its curve took in the Deep South, Mexico, Central America, part of South America, and the entire West Indies.

2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 18, in American nations, New York: Penguin

(US) A proposed slave state encircling the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.


abortion tour

"ABORTION TOURS" TO JAPAN are increasing. Despite more liberal attitudes and legislation in some parts of the United States, discretion still compels thousands of women annually to fly to Japan for the operations.

Abortion tours have already begun, most often to the former Soviet republics. The social and political atmosphere created by Catholic and neoliberal fundamentalists is encouraging discrimination, posing serious threats to freedom of ...

2018, Tanya Renne, Ana's Land: Sisterhood In Eastern Europe, Routledge, page 32

(rare) An instance of abortion tourism; a trip made for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.


lost in time

Possibly a shortening of the phrase lost in the mists of time.

(science fiction) Lost during time travel.


bikepack

en-verb

bikepack (third-person singular simple present bikepacks, present participle bikepacking, simple past and past participle bikepacked)

bikepacks (present singular third-person)
bikepacking (participle present)
bikepacked (participle past)
bikepacked (past)

Brian and Craig were going to bikepack a high-elevation route in South America, from Lake Titicaca, Peru, to Quito, Ecuador.

Christopher Bennett, The Cordillera (volume 5, page 218)

On the other hand, if you don't plan to bikepack in mountainous areas, then a gravel bike with clearances for 40mm tires will likely save weight over a bikepacking machine.

(transitive, intransitive) To take part in bikepacking.


return fare

To coincide with the launch, LNER has introduced fixed-price all-in-one return fares for two adults and up to four children, priced at £129 between London, Thornaby and London.

2021 December 29, “Network News: LNER launches King's Cross-Middlesbrough direct service”, in RAIL, number 947, page 12

(travel) A fare charged for a two-way journey, to one's destination and back to the starting point.


ROW

(travel, video games, digital rights management) Initialism of rest of world.


recreotourism

To support the development of the Mosaïcultures internationales de Montréal as called for in the agreement, an additional $800.0 appropriation has been budgeted. Other additional funding includes $550.0 for the upkeep, planting and watering of areas along the Lachine Canal to enhance this new recreotourism attraction.

2003, Budget, Ville de Montréal, Service des finances, →OCLC, page 52

This could be considered to be anecdotal evidence, but it highlights the real issue of the impacts of cyanobacterial blooms on the well-being of recreationists, residents living near waterbodies, and on the recreotourism industry.

2019, Chloe L'Ecuyer-Sauvageau et al., “Understanding the preferences of water users in a context of cyanobacterial blooms in Quebec”, in Journal of Environmental Management, volume 248, Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN

(non-native speakers’ English, chiefly Quebec) Recreational tourism.


resort town

(tourism, urban studies) An urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy.


agritouristic

(tourism) Of or relating to the agritourism.


touristic guide

en-noun

touristic guide (plural touristic guides)

Independently borrowed from French guide touristique, Italian guida turistica, and Spanish guía turístico.

We give any touristic service in Madrid. Information, hotel reservations, privete touristic guide, holiday planning etc etc.

2001 April 8, ALFONSO MUÑOZ, “accomodation in Madrid? (Spain)”, in alt.hotel666 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-24

(non-native speakers’ English) A tour guide.


flux capacitor

First seen in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension in 1984 and in the 1985 American science fiction film Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis, in which a DMC DeLorean vehicle is retrofitted with a flux capacitor to create a time travel device.

Tucked into the corner of the Rinky Dink Flea Market in Marietta is a time machine that transports its visitors to an era before digital music. It doesn’t need a flux capacitor to work, just a plug to power the vintage stereos and turntables that produce the sounds of the thousands of vinyl records sold there.

2019 January 12, Chad Plauche-Adkins, “Playing the classics: Flea market music collection includes thousands of records”, in The Marietta Times

Is this a glitch? Is the system experiencing an outage? It is a temptation that is best resisted, the urge to talk about this Chelsea team as a piece of fine-point engineering, to style Thomas Tuchel as a pure systems man, poring over his data charts, banging his dials, reconfiguring the flux capacitor with a bent hairpin.

2021 December 4, Barney Ronay, “Thomas Tuchel must gear up for a new phase to reboot glitching Chelsea”, in The Guardian

(science fiction) A fictional instrument required to operate a time machine, consisting of a rectangular-shaped compartment with three flashing Geissler-style tubes arranged in a "Y" configuration.


Turkish Riviera

Turkish+riviera. From being a coastline in Turkiye similar to the Riviera, like the French Riviera.

(tourism, marketing) A region of Turkey; the southern in the Aegean Sea, coast to the western Mediterranean Sea, of the southwest coastline of Anatolia, Western Asia


time cop

(science fiction) A member of the time police.


time patrol

Synonym of time police (“an organization which regulates time travel”).


time police

(science fiction) An organization which regulates time travel, especially with the purpose of preventing the past from being changed.


time barrier

(science fiction) A barrier or obstacle preventing time travel, especially one resulting from technological limitations.


time crime

time crime (countable and uncountable, plural time crimes)

(science fiction) The violation of time travel law (especially referring to an attempt to change the past).


ultrawave

There were short intervals between the reports, for ultrawaves, though traveling at the speed of light, still needed some time to span the tremendous distance.

1969, K[arl] H[erbert] Scheer, Walter Ernsting, translated by Wendayne Ackerman, Enterprise Stardust, London: Severn House, published 1977, page 28

A type of radiation, often described as allowing for faster-than-light communication.


spindizzy

From spin + dizzy. The science fiction sense was coined by American author James Blish in 1950 for the Cities in Flight series of books (published 1950–1962).

coinage

So the twin scientific themes of the first book are the development of antigravity technology called spindizzies that enable whole cities to lift into space, and the production of "anti-agathic" drugs that can extend life indefinitely, necessary for the immense journey times in interstellar space.]

[2014, Brian Clegg, Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, page 26

(science fiction) An anti-gravity propulsion system capable of faster-than-light travel, powered by the hypothetical Blackett effect.


jumpship

Ben stared at the hologram. "The megacorps don't have quite the monopoly on fast transit that they think they have," he said. "But it would certainly help if we had a few more jumpships. That would solve a lot of transit problems."

2015, Jacey Bedford, Crossways, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., page 59

(science fiction) A spaceship able to instantaneously move large distances through space by traveling through hyperspace or jumpspace.


jumpspace

The Fergus entered jumpspace, but never emerged. The Scandyans were kind enough to let us check their records, and they show a clean drop.

2003, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt Jr., The Ethos Effect, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, page 176


light barrier

On the grounds that special relativity predicts that no object can travel faster than light. Compare sound barrier.

The speed of light, seen as a barrier to faster-than-light travel.


hotel room

A room at a hotel where a customer can spend the night.


flightmare

Blend of flight + nightmare. Compare also frightmare.

She glanced, for the first time since this flightmare started, to the man sitting in the aisle seat beside her.

I was so grateful to see my children that day, and even Jake was a sight for sore eyes after the “flightmare” from hell.

2015, Mary Helen Hensley, Promised by Heaven

The flightmare continues as I elbow my way through chuckleheads in pleated khakis or gamey business suits with phones clipped to their belts, parents who are wrangling several unruly kids hopped up on M&Ms, and reunited couples engaged in serious tonsil hockey.

2015, Jennifer Worick, Things I Want to Punch in the Face, page 15

(travel, aviation) An unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.


disaster tourism

Near-synonym: dark tourism

As a vehicle towards reconstruction, disaster tourism allows rapid recovery and further financially-aid programs for affected communities. Hence post-disaster marketing offers a fertile ground to the exploration of new horizons of research, which made pain its main commodity.

2023, Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Hugues Séraphin, Vanessa G. B. Gowreesunkar, editors, Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism, 2nd edition, CRC Press

The practice of visiting locations at which an environmental disaster, either natural or human-made, has occurred.


wine route

Stellenbosch's other attraction—it is a major one—is its Wine Route, and here we are back to Phyl's adventure and fun. It is one of the gayest, most exciting things to explore in all South Africa and since its start seven years ago it has become one of the country's major attractions.

1978, Eve Palmer, Geoffrey Jenkins, The Companion Guide to South Africa, HarperCollins, page 367

(tourism) A marked and advertised road with special signs in a wine-producing region, used to promote local vineyards and other places of touristic interest.


check-in time

(travel) The time during which a registered guest is expected to arrive at a lodging.

(travel) The time prior to departure of a scheduled flight when a passenger must present one's ticket and baggage for travel.


gate time

(travel, aviation) The moment in time at which an aircraft pulls back from the gate, or passes a certain point on the track.

(travel, aviation) A prescheduled time at which a flight will enter a new area of controlled airspace.


elapsed flying time

en-noun

elapsed flying time (countable and uncountable, plural elapsed flying times)

(travel, aviation) The amount of time that an aircraft spends in the air.


actual flying time

actual flying time (countable and uncountable, plural actual flying times)

(business, travel, aviation) The total amount of time that an aircraft is in the air, excluding its time on the ground.


long sell

en-verb

long sell (third-person singular simple present long sells, present participle long selling, simple past and past participle long sold)

long sells (present singular third-person)
long selling (participle present)
long sold (participle past)
long sold (past)

(transitive, ditransitive, intransitive, aviation, travel, dated) (in a GDS) To reserve a flight by typing the required computer commands with the itinerary details together and entering the command once, rather than selecting from displayed availability.


clearance time

en-noun

clearance time (countable and uncountable, plural clearance times)

There should be a maximum clearance time of 45 minutes for any passenger on any international arriving flight on any day of the year at any time of the day.

1988, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations, Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1989, page 132

The amount of time it takes from the initiation of a process until it is completed.

(travel, aviation) The amount of time it takes to get through customs.


undertourism

A new index created by Australian travel company Intrepid has revealed the countries suffering from the most "overtourism", along with the nations with "undertourism".

2018 May 24, Kylie McLaughlin, “Countries with the most tourists per head of population: Destinations suffering 'overtourism'”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, archived from the original on 2024-05-01

Undertourism can also mean paying more attention to your surroundings while you’re there—Vienna’s latest marketing campaign urges visitors to ditch their phones and be fully present in the Austrian capital.

2019 September 26, Julia Buckley, “Undertourism: These destinations want your attention”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 2024-05-01

‘Undertourism’ is the biggest long term issue in North Wales according to a sector expert who believes tackling it can help deal with ‘overtourism’. The issue of ‘overtourism’ has come to the fore over the last two years with the lifting of Covid lockdowns leading to huge surges in visitor numbers to the region.

2022 September 15, Owen Hughes, “'Undertourism' is the biggest issue in North Wales, says tourism expert”, in North Wales Live, archived from the original on 2024-05-01


revenge travel

revenge travel (usually uncountable, plural revenge travels)

“After being confined for a year, ‘revenge travel’ is essentially a slingshot back into the world. It’s a visceral response to pent-up travel demand,” said Mike Kennedy, co-founder of the travel marketplace KOALA.

2021 May 19, Caroline Bologna, “'Revenge Travel' Will Be All The Rage Over The Next Few Years”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2024-05-02

Ultimately, “revenge travel” is about payback and taking that trip that was lost due to the global pandemic.

2023 October 11, Geoff Whitmore, “What Is Revenge Travel And Is It Still Happening?”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 2023-11-19

(informal) The action and surge in traveling after people are denied the opportunity for extended periods of time, especially after a lockdown.


show time

show time (countable and uncountable, plural show times)

(aviation, travel) The time prior to the departure of a scheduled aircraft in which the passenger service representatives at an airport terminal may begin the roll call for assigning seats.


faster than light

en-adj

faster than light (comparative form only)

Alternative form of faster-than-light (see usage note on said article).


Lufthansa

Borrowed from German Lufthansa, from a compound of Luft (“air”) + Hansa (“guild; Hanseatic League”).