Knowing some essential English travel phrases will make your trip safer, smoother and more enjoyable. The purpose of this article is to improve your travel vocabulary, making it easier for you to communicate while on the go. We have compiled a list of 32 essential English words and phrases that will prove to be your best companions on your travels.
Travel Vocabulary Phrases & Expressions
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| Travel Vocabulary |
- Accommodation - a place for someone to live or stay
- Backpack - a bag with straps that go over your shoulders, allowing you to carry things on your back while walking or climbing
- Camping - living in a tent, etc. on holiday
- Check in - When you check in at an airport, you arrive and show your ticket before going on a flight.
- Cruise - A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number of places.
- Departure - an act of leaving a place
- Destination - a place to which someone/something is going or being sent
- Excursion - a short journey usually made for pleasure, often by a group of people
- Explorer - a person who travels around a place in order to learn about it
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| Word: Explorer |
- Get around - to travel to a lot of places
- Get away - If you get away, you go away for a period of time in order to have a holiday.
- Hitchhike - to travel by getting free rides in someone else's vehicle
- Homeland - the native land or country of one's parents, one's ancestors, or oneself
- In the middle of nowhere - in a place that is far away from other people, houses, or cities
- Itinerary - a plan of a journey, including the route and the places that you will visit
- Jet-lagged - tired and confused because you have made a long trip by plane from a place where the time is different
- Jet-setter - a rich fashionable person who travels a lot
- Lavatory - a toilet, or a room with a toilet in it
- Layover - a short stay in a place that you make while you are on a longer journey to somewhere else
- Luggage - the bags, suitcases, etc. that contain your possessions and that you take with you when you are traveling
- Off the beaten track - in a place where few people go, far from any main roads and towns
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| Phrase: Off the beaten track |
- Pilgrimage - a journey, often a long one, made to a holy place for religious reasons
- Safari - A safari is a trip to observe or hunt wild animals, especially in East Africa.
- Set off - to begin a journey
- Sightseeing - the activity of visiting the famous or interesting places of an area, especially by people on holiday
- Solo traveler - someone who goes on a trip by themselves, rather than in a group
- Souvenir - 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
- Take off - When an airplane takes off, it leaves the ground and starts flying.
- Toiletries - things such as soap or toothpaste that you use for washing, cleaning your teeth, etc.
- Voyage - a long journey on a ship or in a spacecraft
- Wanderlust - a strong desire to travel
- When in Rome (do as the Romans do) - When you are visiting another place, you should follow the customs of the people in that place.
