Los Angeles Tours Glossary

Advance Reservations:: An advanced order, generally without full payment. An arrangement by which accommodations are tenable in advance, as in a hotel or on an airplane.
Air Transportation:: A segment of a continuing trip which requires a change of aircraft, but not necessarily a change of airline.
Airport access fee:: A fee paid by the car rental companies to the airport power, for the use of shuttle vehicles, etc - usually passed on to the consumer.
Airport:: A tract of leveled land where aircraft could take off and land, usually equipped with hard-surfaced landing strips, a control tower, hangars, aircraft preservation and refueling facilities, and accommodations for passengers and cargo.
Attraction:: A person, place, thing, or occasion that is intended to attract.
Availability:: This could pertain to air/hotel or car that means if space is open to sell to the public.
Architecture:: The art and science of scheming and erecting buildings.
Amenities:: A feature that increases attractiveness or value, particularly of a piece of real estate or a geographic location. The quality of organism pleasant or attractive; agreeableness.
All-inclusive :: It generally should mean a plan, which includes all meals, drinks, tips, service charges, accommodations, some water sports (usually non-motorized), etc.

Booking:: Term used to refer to a completed sale by a destination, convention center, facility, hotel or supplier (i.e. convention, meeting, trade show or group business booking).
Booking Ticket:: It is another term for a reservation, in the travel, including airlines, railroads, hotels, and also restaurants.
Baby strollers:: A light chair like wagon with three of four wheels for transporting small children.
Base Fare:: It is a basic price of an airline ticket, earlier to any taxes, surcharges, airport fees, etc.
Bellman:: A person who carries one's baggage or luggage to a hotel room.

Comprehensive Shuttle:: A preliminary layout viewing all the elements planned for an advertisement. Marked by or showing extensive understanding in shuttle.
Cancellation Penalty:: The monetary penalty due when travel procedure is cancelled, generally after final payment has been made.
Cabin:: The passenger area on an aircraft; the stateroom on board a cruise ship.
Climate controlled tours:: A tour particularly designed only for specific climate.
Clubs:: The term club is not legal in nature, but is a universal term that includes any kind of group that has members who gather for a social, literary, or may be for political purpose, such as health clubs, country clubs, book clubs, and women's associations.
Charters:: A document issued by a sovereign, legislature, or could be for other authority, creating a public or private corporation, such as a city, college, or bank, and defining its privileges and even purposes.

Daily Tours:: A tour exclusively designed for people who travel daily.
Dinner:: The chief meal of the day, eaten after sunset or at midday.

Electronic Ticket:: A "paperless" airline ticket allow one to check-in and fly with just proper photo ID. What might look like a ticket is in fact just a paper passenger receipt.
Embark:: To board a plane or the cruise ship.

Free Refreshments:: The act of energizing or the state of being refreshed. Something, such as food or drink, that refreshes. This refreshment is given for free.
Family plan:: Family plan is offered by most hotels, let children to stay in the same room as parents, at no additional charge. Age requirements differ between hotels.
First class:: Most aircraft have at least some first class seats up face, which offer much additional room and upgraded cabin service, meals, etc. Worth the price on some long, global destinations, if you can afford it.

Guide:: A person working to conduct others, as through a museum, and give information about points of interest encountered.
Gateway city:: A city that operates as an appearance or departure point for international flights.

Hotel pickup:: The act or course of picking up from hotel on the specified time.
Hotel:: An establishment that provides lodging and generally meals and other services for travelers and other paying guests.
Hard Copy:: A printed version of a document, such as an airline ticket or even hotel voucher.

Itinerary:: A route or future route of a journey, it is also known as a guidebook for travelers.
In Season:: Meaning only obtainable at certain times of the year.
Inclusive Tour:: A package tour that bundles transportation, accommodations, transfers, tourism, possibly some meals, etc.

Jet Lag:: A upset of one's biological clock, due to travel crosswise many time zones; not all folks are affected by it.

Kids Tour:: A tour designed for particularly for under 18 years. It may carry many special adventures like animal zoo or may be educational stuff.

Landmark:: A prominent identifying feature of a landscape. A structure that has important historical, architectural, or cultural meaning and that has been given legal protection from alteration and destruction.
Luxury:: Something inessential but favorable to pleasure and comfort. Something costly and unnecessary.
Lounges:: A public waiting room, as in a hotel or an air incurable, often having smoking or lavatory facilities.
Long Tour:: Extending or traveling a comparatively great distance.
Leisure Travel:: Travel for enjoyment as opposed to business.

Motor Coach:: A traveler bus that is powered by a motor, also called motor coach.
Maximum Stay:: The maximum time you might stay at your destination in order to qualify for a specific airfare. Normally the majority fares have a 30-day limit, but some are less. Generally, the longer you stay, the higher the fare will be.
Minimum Connect Time:: Defined as the minimum time necessary between linking flights - 30 minutes domestically, usually - ideally, at least a hour.
Misc Landmarks:: Landmarks are frequently buildings such as hotels, homes, skyscrapers, theaters, museums, stores, libraries, churches, and synagogues. Other structures, such as bridges, and even natural points of interest, such as trees, could also be chosen as landmarks if they have special historical, architectural, or cultural significance.

Non Refundable:: A fare that cannot be refunded also in cash or via a credit card credit; very seldom is there an exception.
Nonstop:: Referring to an air flight that does not stop enrooted to its first destination, that is, a single flight section with no intermediate stops.

Occupancy Rate:: The percent of hotel rooms predictable to be filled during a specific time period.
Off Peak:: A time when less travel occurs. Fares are generally lower during these times.

Pickup Location:: A particular place where traveler are picked up for the tour or trip.
Private Tours:: A tour chiefly designed for a family or group friends or may be business group of people.
Passenger:: A passenger is a term largely used to describe any person who travels in a vehicle, but bears no little or no accountability for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination.
Package:: Any mixture of more than one component, such as a hotel room and an air ticket.
PA system:: An electronic intensification system used as a communication system in public areas. It is a public-address system.
Penalty:: The amount charged for canceling or may be for changing a reservation.
Pre Book Parking:: This is the process of booking and paying for your parking before exit. Bookings can be made up to a few hours before departure.

Quad:: It is a room suitable for four persons.

Refreshment:: The act of refreshing or state of being refreshed. Something, such as food or drink, that refreshes.
Restaurant:: Restaurant, a commercial organization where meals can be bought and eaten. In the 16th cent, English inns and taverns began to serve one meal a day at a set time and price, at a common table, and generally distinguished by a special dish. The serving of food was called the normal, and inn dining rooms and eating places usually began to be called ordinaries.
Reservation:: An agreement by which accommodations are secured in advance, as in a hotel or on an airplane.
Round Trip:: A flight to a solitary destination and return.

Shuttle:: The word shuttle could have several meanings. In general, it is something which travels back and forth among places in a regular and relatively frequent manner.
Shuttle Tours:: Shuttle tours are a trip with visits to a variety of places of interest for business, pleasure, or instruction.
Sights:: A device used to help aim by guiding the eye, as on a firearm or surveying instrument. Something value seeing; a spectacle.
Sightseeing:: The act or activity of visiting sights of interest.
Service Fees:: This fee is non-refundable ticket fee this might appear as a separate charge on your credit card statement.
Service:: The performance of work or duties for a better or as a servant. Any duty or labor performed for another person.
Sweater:: A jacket or pullover made particularly of knit, crocheted, or woven wool, cotton, or synthetic yarn.
Short Tour:: A brief trip to or through a place for the reason of seeing it. To travel from place to place, especially for pleasure.

Tariff:: A calendar of the prices/fares.
Tours:: A tour could be defined as a trip taken by a group of people who travel together and follow a pre-planned itinerary. Most tours comprise accommodations, a number of meals, sightseeing, land transportation, and/or other transportation, plus the services of an expert tour manager or escort who accompanies the group.
Tour Guide:: Professional engaged to point out places of attention and conduct tours of exact locations and attractions.
Ticket:: When completed and validated, the electronic ticket or paper ticket becomes an agreement for transportation between a carrier and a passenger.
Tour Time:: The time scheduled for an worker to be on duty on any day. It includes relief periods and meal breaks. A tour consists of one or more sessions.
Travel:: The act or procedure of traveling; movement or passage from one place to another.

Unlimited Mileage:: It is rental car rates that allow the renter to drive an unlimited number of miles with no additional mileage charges.
Unrestricted fare:: It is an airfare that has no special advance purchase, Saturday stay or certain days to travel requirements, and is usually refundable. Many full coach and most first-class fares are unrestricted.

Vacation:: A fixed period of holidays, particularly one during which a school, court, or business suspends activities.
Vacation Packages:: Vacation packages are planned for those traveling independently. They include a mixture of two or more travel services (e.g. hotel accommodations, car rental, air transportation) that are offered at a "package price."

Wheel Chair:: A chair mounted on big wheels for the use of a sick or disabled person.
Waiting Time:: The amount of time customers stay before their call reaches an agent, an Interactive Voice Processor (IVP), or an Voice Response Unit (VRU).
World Travel Guide:: It is a yearly publication that provides detailed information on the majority every country in the world, with entries on currency, transportation, climate, visa and passport requirements, sightseeing opportunities, etc.

Yield Management:: Calculating and analyzing the profits gain per customer.