pseudo

From Middle English, derived from prefix pseudo-, itself derived from Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).

der

(travel industry, informal) pseudo-city code


close

From Middle English closen (“to close, enclose”), partly continuing (in altered form) earlier Middle English clusen (“to close”) (from Old English clȳsan (“to close, shut”); compare beclose, foreclose, etc.), and partly derived from Middle English clos (“close, shut up, confined, secret”, adjective), from Old French clos (“close, confined”, adjective), from Latin clausus (“shut up”, past participle), from claudere (“to bar, block, close, enclose, bring an end to, confine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klāw- (“key, hook, nail”), related to Latin clāvis (“key, deadbolt, bar”), clāvus (“nail, peg”), claustrum (“bar, bolt, barrier”), claustra (“dam, wall, barricade, stronghold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “bar, bolt, key”), German schließen (“to close, conclude, lock”), Dutch sluiten (“to close, conclude, lock”). Partially replaced Old English lūcan (“to close, lock, enclose”), (whence English lock). Doublet of clause.

cog

(aviation, travel) The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.


thumb

en-verb

thumb (third-person singular simple present thumbs, present participle thumbing, simple past and past participle thumbed)

thumbs (present singular third-person)
thumbing (participle present)
thumbed (participle past)
thumbed (past)

From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
See also West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Duum, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme; also
Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century.

EtymOnLine

Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “thumb”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

So I started thumbin' back east, toward my hometown.

Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained.

1969, Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster, Me and Bobby McGee:

Thumbed a diesel down, outside a cafe.

1980, Kye Fleming, Dennis Morgan, Smoky Mountain Rain:


RR

(aviation, travel, dated) (from the status code used in the GDS) reconfirm / reconfirmed.


UTC

(travel, GDS) Initialism of unable to contact.


business

en-noun

business (countable and uncountable, plural businesses)

Tok Pisin: bisnis

→ Albanian: biznes

→ Belarusian: бі́знэс (bíznes)

→ Bulgarian: би́знес (bíznes)

→ Czech: business, byznys

→ Dutch: business

→ Indonesian: bisnis, bisnes

→ Faroese: besnissaður

→ Finnish: bisnes, business

→ French: business

→ Haitian Creole: biznis

→ Italian: business

→ Japanese: ビジネス (bijinesu)

→ Jersey Dutch: bääznäs

→ Marshallese: peejnej

→ Moroccan Arabic: بزناس (biznās)

desc

→ Newar: बनय्ज्या (banêjyā), बनेज्या (banejyā)

→ Pennsylvania German: Bisniss

→ Polish: biznes

→ Romanian: bișniță

desctree

→ Russian: би́знес (bíznes), би́знесъ (bíznɛs) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: բիզնես (biznes)
→ Yakut: биисинэс (biisines)

→ Slovak: biznis

→ Spanish: bisnes

→ Tatar: business

→ Ukrainian: бі́знес (bíznes)

→ Welsh: busnes

From Middle English busines, busynes, businesse, bisynes, from Old English bisiġnes (“business, busyness”), equivalent to busy + -ness. Doublet of busyness.

business

action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing

business in the front, party in the back

Gates, who always flew business or coach, didn't particularly like the high air fares Nishi was charging to Microsoft,[…]

1992, James Wallace, Jim Erickson, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, page 154:

(travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.


CSS

en-noun

CSS (countable and uncountable, plural CSSs or CSSes)

(aviation, travel) Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.


plate

→ Maori: pereti

→ Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)

From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.

der

(aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.

(aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.

lipunkirjoitusoikeus

aviation: ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline


plate

en-verb

plate (third-person singular simple present plates, present participle plating, simple past and past participle plated)

plates (present singular third-person)
plating (participle present)
plated (participle past)
plated (past)

From Middle English platen, from Old English platian and Old French plater, both ultimately from Latin plata (see above).

Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.

(aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.


metal

en-noun

metal (countable and uncountable, plural metals)

nonmetal

antonym(s) of “any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms”

From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).

аметалл

atomic element or material made of such atoms

We have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airways metal.

(informal, travel, aviation) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.


locator

(travel industry) The unique alphanumeric reference given to each travel booking.


churn

en-verb

churn (third-person singular simple present churns, present participle churning, simple past and past participle churned)

churns (present singular third-person)
churning (participle present)
churned (participle past)
churned (past)

Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.

der

(informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.

(US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.


DOJ

(travel, aviation) Initialism of double open jaw.


HBO

/ˌeɪtʃ ˌbiː ˈoʊ/

(aviation, travel) Initialism of hand baggage only. (fare type)


mile

en-noun

mile (plural miles or (UK colloquial) mile)

miles (plural)
mile (UK colloquial plural)

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

give someone an inch and someone will take a mile

give them an inch and they'll take a mile

(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.


land

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lęda (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

cog

Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.


direct

en-adj

direct (comparative more direct, superlative most direct)

more direct (comparative)
most direct (superlative)

/daɪ̯əˈɹɛkt/

Borrowed from Latin dīrectus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + regō (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress. Doublet of derecho.
For the meaning development compare with Russian напра́вить (naprávitʹ, “to direct, to turn, to aim, to level, to point”), отпра́вить (otprávitʹ, “to send, to dispatch, to forward”) connected with пра́вить (právitʹ, “to govern, to rule, to drive, to steer”).

m+

(aviation, travel) Having a single flight number.


TCP

(travel, aviation) Initialism of to complete party (followed by total number in group. Code used in OSI to advise an airline that other passengers are travelling with a person but are booked separately)


ET

en-noun

ET (countable and uncountable, plural ETs)

(travel, aviation) Initialism of electronic ticket.

(travel, aviation, reservation system) End transaction, end of transaction (with transaction meaning an amendment in the reservation system in this sense).


protect

en-verb

protect (third-person singular simple present protects, present participle protecting, simple past and past participle protected)

protects (present singular third-person)
protecting (participle present)
protected (participle past)
protected (past)

Attested in English since 1530, from Latin prōtēctus (“covered, protected”), past participle of prōtegere (“to cover the front, protect”) from prō, prō- (“before, in front of”) + tegere (“to cover”), see tegument. Displaced native Middle English shelden, from Old English sċildan (“to protect,” literally “to shield”).

affix

(travel, aviation) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.


aerophobia

Many first-time flyers suffer from aerophobia, though some hide it better than others.


fam trip

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


ARNK

Short for arrival unknown: it is a four-letter computer code that shows on the reservation in place of a flight segment.

(travel industry) An unknown or empty sector of an itinerary.


minimum connecting time

en-noun

minimum connecting time (plural minimum connecting times)

(aviation, travel) The amount of time, agreed in advance between airlines and airport authorities, that is considered sufficient for a passenger to make a connection between an arriving flight and a departing flight on the same ticket.


standby

standby (countable and uncountable, plural standbys)

(travel) Waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out.

waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out

lefoglalt, de üres/betöltetlen helyre várakozás repülőtéren


PNR

(travel, aviation) Initialism of passenger name record: the complete details of a passenger's booking, including itinerary, contact details, and special requests; or the unique alphanumeric identifier for each booking.


suspend

en-verb

suspend (third-person singular simple present suspends, present participle suspending, simple past and past participle suspended)

suspends (present singular third-person)
suspending (participle present)
suspended (participle past)
suspended (past)

resume

antonym(s) of “to halt something temporarily, to discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event”

From Old French sospendre, from Latin suspendere.

(travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.


MCO

(travel, aviation, dated) Initialism of miscellaneous charge order.


direct flight

(travel) A flight in which the passenger makes intermediate stops but does not change aircraft.


round trip

From round (“complete, entire"; "forming a circle or cycle”) + trip (“journey”).

compound

Margaret purchased a single round trip ticket to and from Chicago, as it was cheaper than buying two one-way tickets.

The fare for this sightseeing tour of London is about 1s., but it is necessary to rebook at least once, as through tickets are not issued for the round trip.

1950 July, J. G. Gibbons, “Sightseeing on the Inner Circle”, in Railway Magazine, page 485:

(often figurative, travel) A trip from one destination to another and then returning to the starting location.

ذهاب وعودة

a trip from one destination to another and then returning to the starting location


one-way ticket

(travel) A ticket granting permission to travel to a place but not return.

單程票

a ticket granting permission to travel to a place but not back


kk

(aviation, travel) confirm (originally a GDS status code, now often used as shorthand).


cabin

→ French: cabine (see there for further descendants)

→ Japanese: キャビン (kyabin)

→ Korean: 캐빈 (kaebin)

From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.

(travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.

сало́н

section of passenger plane having same class of service


FOP

en-noun

FOP (countable and uncountable, plural FOPs)

(aviation, travel) Initialism of form of payment.


FCC

(travel, cruising) Abbreviation of future cruise credit.


DMC

DMC (countable and uncountable, plural DMCs)

destination management
w:destination management

(tourism) Initialism of destination management company.


uplift

en-verb

uplift (third-person singular simple present uplifts, present participle uplifting, simple past and past participle uplifted)

uplifts (present singular third-person)
uplifting (participle present)
uplifted (participle past)
uplifted (past)

извисявам

to raise something or someone to a higher level

(aviation, travel) To be accepted for carriage on a flight.


TPM

en-noun

TPM (countable and uncountable, plural TPMs)

ticket point mileage
ticket point mileage#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of ticket point mileage.


TD

TD (countable and uncountable, plural TDs)

ticket designator
ticket designator#English

(travel) Initialism of ticket designator.


FCU

fare construction unit
fare construction unit#English

(travel industry, dated) Initialism of fare construction unit.


TCA

TCA (countable and uncountable, plural TCAs)

traffic conference area
traffic conference area#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of traffic conference area.


SSR

special service requirement
special service requirement#English

(aviation, travel industry) Initialism of special service requirement (or Request).


bucket shop

(travel, dated) A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.


implant

From Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō. By surface analysis, im- + plant.

(travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.


offload

en-verb

offload (third-person singular simple present offloads, present participle offloading, simple past and past participle offloaded)

offloads (present singular third-person)
offloading (participle present)
offloaded (participle past)
offloaded (past)

(transitive, aviation, travel) To deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space.

(transitive, aviation, travel) To change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not).


nonstop

With business-class seats on nonstops from British Airways and Cathay Pacific often priced up to $8,000 round trip, Mr. Exton typically flew cheaper alternatives that saved money but required layovers and plane switches.

2007 October 14, David Kaufman, “Discounters Are In for the Long Hauls”, in New York Times:

(travel) A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.


CASM

(travel) Acronym of cost per available seat-mile: a method of calculating operating costs in the travel industry. It is derived by dividing total operating expenses by total ASMs.


cutline

If you stop and get out, you will see a cutline for line-of-sight surveying.

(surveying, travel) A linear cleared area through undeveloped land.


nonrev

Short for nonrevenue, as they do not pay for their tickets.

(aviation, travel, informal) Pertaining to nonrevenue travel taken by airline employees.


nonrev

(aviation, travel, informal) An airline employee flying as a passenger.


full board

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


half board

en-noun

half board (countable and uncountable, plural half boards)

(uncountable, travel) A hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but no meal at lunchtime.


backhaul

backhaul (countable and uncountable, plural backhauls)

higher intermediate point
higher intermediate point

(travel, aviation, fare construction) Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).


CRS

CRS (countable and uncountable, plural CRSs)

central reservation system
w:central reservation system

computer reservation system
w:computer reservation system

(computing, aviation, travel) Initialism of central reservation system or computer reservation system.


segment

From Latin segmentum (“a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel”), from secāre (“to cut”).

der

(travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.


walk policy

(travel, hotel, hospitality industry) A pre-arranged list of compensation that will be offered to clients whose reserved room is not available at time of check-in.

hotel; hospitality industry; hotel; hospitality industry


shoulder season

en-noun

shoulder season (plural shoulder seasons)

When planning future trips, he echoed Ms. Vargas in recommending that people consider traveling during the “shoulder season,” which his tour company now defines as April and October — no longer May and September.

2022 August 4, Paige McClanahan, “Stockholm Instead of Rome? October Instead of July? How Heat Waves Are Changing Tourism in Europe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(travel industry) The time between high and low season in a travel market, or, if the market is divided into four segments, the time just below high season.


land bridge

His reference to waves of lorries on the A55 that match ferry schedules may become dated. Until very recently, the A55 formed part of a land bridge between Ireland and continental Europe. However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, [...].

2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 25:

(Ireland, British, travel) Travel by ferry from one country, via another country by road, then by another ferry crossing to a third country. An example is from Ireland by ferry to the UK, by road to the opposite coast, then ferry to France.


reconfirm

en-verb

reconfirm (third-person singular simple present reconfirms, present participle reconfirming, simple past and past participle reconfirmed)

reconfirms (present singular third-person)
reconfirming (participle present)
reconfirmed (participle past)
reconfirmed (past)

(aviation, travel, dated) To advise an airline of your intention to use a reservation, or risk cancellation.


overland

(travel) A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.


down line

If you miss a flight, the airline will likely cancel the down line.

(travel, aviation) the next and subsequent flights in an itinerary.


consolidator

(aviation, travel) a business which buys air travel tickets in bulk, then sells them at discounted prices.


uncheck

uncheck (third-person singular simple present unchecks, present participle unchecking, simple past and past participle unchecked)

unchecks (present singular third-person)
unchecking (participle present)
unchecked (participle past)
unchecked (past)

(travel, aviation) To remove a previously checked-in passenger from the check-in system, allowing changes to the ticket.


HIP

Higher Intermediate Point
Higher Intermediate Point#English

(travel industry) Acronym of Higher Intermediate Point.


greeter

From Middle English greter, gretter, equivalent to greet + -er.

Visitors are matched with a volunteer Greeter according to shared interests and languages spoken, and their 3-4 hours together is a combination of what the Greeter has to offer and the visitor wants to know.

1998, Proceedings from the Australian Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference, page 208:

The greeter system — a free service provided by volunteers — is popular in several cities throughout the world.

2013, John A. Richardson, Grey Nomads, page 75:

This tourism is based on tourists' quest for an 'authentic experience', by spreading throughout the entire city (admittedly with a predilection for gentrifying neighbourhoods), seeking 'off the beaten track' (but always secure) itineraries (Djament-Tran and Guinand, 2014; Maitland, 2013; Maitland and Newman, 2014), going for a walk with a local 'greeter' and, above all, staying in a local's home.

2017, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises, page 54:

Many greeter associations now exist across the world.

2021, Isabelle Frochot, A Practical Guide to Managing Tourist Experiences:

(tourism) A volunteer who shows tourists around their home city or region for free.


return ticket

(travel) A ticket granting permission to travel to a place and return.

往返票

a ticket granting permission to travel to a place and back again


red-eye

en-noun

red-eye (countable and uncountable, plural red-eyes)

The noun is derived from red + eye; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”) and sense 3 (“overnight airplane flight”) are probably so named because they may cause people to develop bloodshot eyes.
The verb is derived from the noun.

I waited too late to book my holiday flight, so I had to take the red-eye.

In fact, you don't see many business travelers on the redeye — the flights that leave West Coast cities after 10 p.m. and touch down at East Coast airports around 6 a.m. […] Redeyes tend to be full of leisure travelers, budget travelers, people involved in bicoastal romances and students.

1990 January 14, Martha T. Moore, “Who flies the ‘redeyes’?”, in The Herald Statesman, volume 126, number 36, Yonkers, N.Y., page G7:

Fortunately, most of these were former French colonies, and through a combination of quiet diplomacy and well-placed French nationals in the various air-traffic-control centers, the 300-mile-long stream of American aircraft flew the width of Africa as uneventfully as a red-eye flight from LAX to JFK.

1994, Tom Clancy, Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 281:

The red-eye back to San Francisco was only about half full. Michael had a window seat and Willy stretched his six-foot-three inch frame out into the aisle as they waited for take-off.

2007, Ellen Klages, “Triangle”, in Portable Childhoods, San Francisco, Calif.: Tachyon Publications, →ISBN, pages 61–62:

He delighted in flying first class to New York on a red-eye and then putting in a full day's work. He functioned on pure adrenaline, often working twenty-hour days.

2014, John Glatt, “Up and Running: April to June, 1968”, in Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock’s Greatest Legends, Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 136:

(countable, US, aviation, travel, colloquial, also attributively) An overnight airplane flight or train trip.


red-eye

en-verb

red-eye (third-person singular simple present red-eyes, present participle red-eyeing or red-eying, simple past and past participle red-eyed)

red-eyes (present singular third-person)
red-eyeing (participle present)
red-eying (participle present)
red-eyed (participle past)
red-eyed (past)

I flew in this morning, red-eying it in last night after hearing of this hearing, because what you are doing here is something that I am particularly interested in.

1988 January 28, “Witnesses: Roy Sampson, Portland, Oregon”, in Enforcement of the Indian Civil Rights Act: Hearing Held in Washington, D.C., January 28, 1988: […], [Washington, D.C.?]: United States Commission on Civil Rights, →OCLC, page 127:

When I arrived at the Center, Block's staff told me he had red-eyed it home from Alaska the night before; he had been surfing fifteen- to twenty-foot waves off the coast of Alaska.

2004, Brenda Hunter, “What is Cancer Saying about Our Lives?”, in Staying Alive: Life-changing Strategies for Surviving Cancer: […], Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, Random House, →ISBN, page 25:

And though convinced she was making a fool of herself, she'd done as the frantic monk had begged, red-eyeing to Miami, island-hopping here.

2011, Glenn Kleier, chapter 7, in The Knowledge of Good & Evil, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 37:

(intransitive, aviation, travel, colloquial) Often followed by it: to travel on a red-eye (“an overnight airplane flight”).

lentää yön yli

to travel on an overnight airplane flight


LMC

(travel, dated) Initialism of let message (to) call (back).


MCT

en-noun

MCT (countable and uncountable, plural MCTs)

minimum connecting time
minimum connecting time#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of minimum connecting time.


FNU

(travel, aviation) Initialism of first name unknown. (used on birth certificates or airline reservations)


EH

Eastern Hemisphere
Eastern Hemisphere#English

(travel, aviation) Initialism of Eastern Hemisphere (travel within or between IATA areas 2 and 3).


rack rate

(travel) The published full price for a room in a hotel that has not been pre-booked.


OSI

Other Supplementary Information
Other Supplementary Information#English

(aviation, travel industry) Initialism of Other Supplementary Information. A message sent to an airline by an agent, in a standardised format, advising relevant information such as being a VIP, language difficulty, or passport information.


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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, 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.

[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, →ISBN, 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.


PCC

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


MPD

en-noun

MPD (countable and uncountable, plural MPDs)

(aviation, travel industry) Initialism of multi-purpose document.


OAL

(travel, aviation) Initialism of other airline.


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.


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.


paper ticket

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


Pixie

(informal, aviation, travel) Air Niugini


OTA

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.

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plating carrier

plating carrier (plural plating carriers)

From the plates, shaped like a credit card with a raised airline name, formerly used when paper tickets were issued.

(aviation, travel industry) The airline that a ticket has been issued on behalf of.


VLOC

(aviation, travel) Abbreviation of vendor locator.


special service requirement

special service requirement (plural special service requirements)

(aviation, travel industry) A request for special treatment for a passenger such as a special diet or mobility assistance, sent from an agent to an airline, to which a reply will be returned.

OSI

Similar, but not replied to by the airline


HIF

higher intermediate fare
higher intermediate fare#English

(travel industry) Initialism of higher intermediate fare.


EMA

EMA (countable and uncountable, plural EMAs)

(travel industry) Initialism of Excess Milage Allowance.


higher intermediate point

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.


higher intermediate fare

higher intermediate fare (plural higher intermediate fares)

(aviation, travel industry, fare construction) An airfare that is higher at a midpoint than the destination or next fare break point.


currency adjustment factor

currency adjustment factor (plural currency adjustment factors)

(travel industry, aviation) (Formerly, no longer in use) An IATA defined amount used to adjust Fare Construction Units in international airfare calculations.


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.


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.


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.


NUC

neutral unit of construction
w:neutral unit of construction

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


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.


FIT

FIT (countable and uncountable, plural FITs)

(uncountable, aviation, travel industry) Initialism of fully inclusive tour.

(uncountable, aviation, travel industry) Initialism of fully independent travel.


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)

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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.


go-show

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


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.


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.


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.


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, →ISBN, 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.


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).


SITI

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold inside, ticketed inside. (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).


SOTO

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold outside, ticketed outside,(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.


miscellaneous charge order

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.


MPM

MPM (countable and uncountable, plural MPMs)

maximum permitted mileage
maximum permitted mileage#English

(travel, aviation) Initialism of maximum permitted mileage.


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


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.


CKIN

(travel, aviation) Abbreviation of check-in.


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.


RBD

reservation booking designator
reservation booking designator#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of reservation booking designator.


togethering

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


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.


reval

(travel, aviation, informal) A revalidated ticket.


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.


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.


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.


piece system

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


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

en-noun

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.


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.


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.


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, →ISBN, 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.


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.


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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, page 346:

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


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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, 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.

[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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, part 5 (Tourism Development), page 366, column 1:

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


whale safari

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


dehost

en-verb

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.


point of departure

en-noun

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:


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.


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.


closed loop

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(time travel) Clipping of closed time loop.


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.


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.


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 Aegean Sea, coast to the western Mediterranean Sea, of the southwest coastline of Anatolia, Western Asia


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.

2011, Joe Shrader, Eden Falls, page 118:

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.


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

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.


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.


blackout date

(US, marketing, travel) A date when travel rewards or other special discounts or promotions are unavailable.


gate lice

(travel, derogatory, US) Passengers who crowd around the boarding gate in hopes of being the first in their boarding group or outright attempt to board a plane before their assigned time to do so.