Tourism terms starting with F

11 terms

  1. familiarization (FAM) tour A free or reduced-rate trip offered to travel professionals to acquaint them with what a destination, attraction, or supplier has to offer.
  2. Familiarization Trip A complimentary or reduced-rate travel program for travel agents, airline or rail employees or other travel buyers, designed to acquaint participants with…
  3. FIT Acronym with multiple meanings. RTM has seen it used to mean the following: -Foreign individual traveler -Frequent individual traveler -Fully independent…
  4. Fixed Costs Costs that do not vary with the volume of business, such as property taxes, insurance, depreciation, security, and minimum water and utility fees.
  5. Fly/drive tour A F.I.T. package that always includes air travel and a rental car and sometimes other travel components.
  6. Folio An itemized record of a guest’s charges and credits which is maintained in the front office until departure.
  7. Foreign Independent Travel or Foreign Individual Travel - FIT An international pre-paid unescorted tour that includes several travel elements such as accommodations, rental cars and sightseeing.
  8. Frequent Independent Travel (F.I.T.) A custom-designed, prepaid travel package with many individualized arrangements. F.I.T. are unescorted and usually have no formal itinerary.
  9. Fulfillment piece Promotional literature, video, or other material that is sent in response to an inquiry. Usually contains full trip planning information.
  10. Full house a hand of three cards of the same value and two cards of another same value, irrespective of suit, e.g. 2, 2, 2, 5, 5; i.e. a three of a kind and a pair
  11. Function room A special room that is used primarily for private parties, banquets, and meetings. Also called banquet rooms.