tourgroup

tourgroup (plural tourgroups)

1. Alternative form of tour group.
   • 1974 April 4, Earle Labor, “Fulbright Follies”, in Conglomerate, volume 68, number 22, Shreveport, La.: Centenary College of Louisiana, →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

     At that moment I realized I'd been deserted by the tourgroup-⁠-Betty and kids, the tourguide and flashlight, they were all gone-⁠-I could hear their voices faintly down one of the dark corridors.

   • 1992 June, Mark Ellingham, John Fisher, Graham Kenyon, Alice Martin, “Alentejo”, in Portugal: The Rough Guide, 5th edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, part 2 (Guide), page 276:

     Évora goes to bed pretty early, as if exhausted by the tourgroups.

   • 1998 January – 1999 March, Maria Damon, mIEKAL aND, “The Third Travel: Whether Hotel”, in Literature Nation: Online Interwriting January 1998-March 1999, Bedford, Mass.: Potes & Poets Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 39:

     The [glass flower museum], with the mummies removed from the fourth floor, where my father worked for a living and died for a yearning. French inventions, insufficient stamina for the task, and a gaggle of out-of-towners waiting to be fed. The 2 diners sat aside from the tourgroup of pilgrims, one of them thinking about that manic poet with his wife and kid.

   • 2004, Rob Fijlstra, Harry Wullings, translated by Jonathan Ellis and Amie de Jeu-Horwin, “Criminal Organizations”, in Honesty: The Best Policy: A Remedy Against Alienation, Cynicism and Powerlessness, London: Cyan | Scriptum, →ISBN, page 110:

     The tourgroup knows the destination and organizes the journey so that they can reach that destination as efficiently as possible. […] For the tourgroup, the world during the trip remains static and they only adapt to unplanned eventualities with reluctance.