Useful travel and tourism vocabulary for IELTS & general conversation, including idioms & phrasal verbs

🇨🇳 IELTS Prep: Tourism & Travel Vocabulary (CHINESE)

a place people visit for pleasure and interest, usually while they are on holiday or travelling

an attraction or tourist attraction (noun)

traveling or hiking, carrying your belongings in a rucksack

a short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity or when you are on holiday

a journey in which a person goes to visit a place and then returns home on the same day

the number of people entering an area during a given time

restricted according to the season or time of year.

to take a journey without taking a lot of heavy things with you in your luggage

1. when you arrange time away from work for holiday or appointment (eg. 'I will take a week off work', 'I took off time to go to the doctor')
2. when a plane is leaving the ground (eg. 'the plane will take off at 3pm')

1. to register at a hotel when you arrive
2. to register at the airport when you arrive for your flight and want to choose seats/ leave luggage; or you can 'check-in online'

to take someone or something somewhere and then leave it/ them somewhere (eg. 'I will drop you off at the train station' or 'You must drop-off your luggage at the airport check-in desk'

to take a vacation and to leave everything behind

to leave everything behind (work, responsibilities, home)

to go with somebody to the airport, train or bus station to say goodbye to them there

a special or famous place that people can easily recognise, often used for giving directions

someone who visits a place or travels to different places for pleasure.

an organised path or place for walking or hiking, a specially designated route for hikers to use

gradually deteriorating in quality or condition, in a bad state

go away from the popular tourist routes. Some tourists prefer to go off track to get a more authentic taste of a destination

to go off track or to go off the beaten track/ path (idiom)

a place or landmark very popular with tourists (it may have been created to attract tourists) which is crowded and typically providing overpriced services, entertainment, food, souvenirs etc for tourists to purchase