Excursion vs. Tourism

An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes. It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit a place, sometimes for other (typically work-related) purposes.

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes".

A usually short journey made for pleasure; an outing.

the commercial organization and operation of holidays and visits to places of interest

A roundtrip in a passenger vehicle at a special low fare.

The practice of traveling for pleasure.

A group taking a short pleasure trip together.

The business of providing tours and services for tourists.

A diversion or deviation from a main topic; a digression.

The act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.

A movement from and back to a mean position or axis in an oscillating or alternating motion.

The industry in which such travels and sightseeing are organized.

The distance traversed in such a movement.

(figurative) The act of visiting another region or jurisdiction for a particular purpose.

A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.

the business of providing services to tourists;

A wandering from the main subject: a digression.

(aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usally during takeoff, landing, or taxi.

(phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.

(intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion.

A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

A wandering from a subject; digression.

Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

a journey taken for pleasure;

wandering from the main path of a journey