English Vocabulary: Travel

English Vocabulary: Travel

Nov 17, 2024

If you are a language learner, understanding the vocab related to travel can enrich your experiences and communication while traveling. Knowing some essential travel phrases will make your trip smoother, safer and more enjoyable. The purpose of this post is to improve your travel vocabulary, making it easier for you to communicate while on the go. These essential English words and phrases will prove to be your best companions on your travels.

  • Accommodation β€” a place for someone to live or stay

They paid for his flights and hotel accommodation.

  • Backpack β€” a bag with straps that go over your shoulders, allowing you to carry things on your back while walking or climbing

It’s a frame backpack with a belt and padded shoulder straps.

  • Camping β€” living in a tent, etc. on holiday

We go camping every weekend.

  • Check in β€” When you check in at an airport, you arrive and show your ticket before going on a flight.

Please check in at least an hour before departure.

  • Cruise β€” A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number of places.

I’d love to go on a round-the-world cruise.

  • Departure β€” an act of leaving a place

Our departure was delayed because of bad weather.

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  • Destination

  • Excursion

  • Explorer

  • Get around β€” to travel to a lot of places

India last week and Spain this week β€” she gets around, doesn’t she!

  • Get away

  • Hitchhike

  • Homeland

  • In the middle of nowhere β€” in a place that is far away from other people, houses, or cities

She lives on a small farm in the middle of nowhere.

  • Itinerary β€” a plan of a journey, including the route and the places that you will visit

The tour operator will arrange transport and plan your itinerary.

  • Jet-lagged

  • Jet-setter

  • Lavatory

  • Layover

  • Luggage β€” the bags, suitcases, etc. that contain your possessions and that you take with you when you are traveling

  • Off the beaten track β€” in a place where few people go, far from any main roads and towns

The farmhouse we stayed in was completely off the beaten track.

  • Pilgrimage

  • Safari

  • Set off

  • Sightseeing β€” the activity of visiting the famous or interesting places of an area, especially by people on holiday

  • Solo traveler

  • Souvenir β€” ​a thing that you buy or keep to remember a special event or holiday; something that you bring back for other people when you have been on holiday

I bought the ring as a souvenir of Greece.

  • Take off

  • Toiletries

  • Voyage β€” a long journey on a ship or in a spacecraft

  • Wanderlust

  • When in Rome (do as the Romans do) β€” When you are visiting another place, you should follow the customs of the people in that place.

β€œAre you sure we should eat this with our hands?” β€œWhy not? All of these people are eating it that way. When in Rome, do as the Romans do!”

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