international travel
Visiting foreign countries
International travel is movement between countries, crossing national borders for tourism, business, or other purposes.
It typically involves passports, visas, and customs procedures: International travel has become more accessible with budget airlines.
The phrase often implies journeys requiring significant planning or expense, distinguishing it from domestic trips.
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- language barrierMutual incomprehension across tongues
- diplomatic missionState envoy group abroad
- itineraryPlanned sequence of destinations
time zones · tourism · foreign currency · study abroad · business trip · cultural exchange · airplane · boarding pass · carry-on bag · customs · volunteer work · immigration · duty free · cruise ship · medical tourism · long-haul flights · red eye flight · flight attendant
- travel typescommute, road trip, trips, vacations, pilgrimage
- travel historyGrand Tour, jet age, ocean liners, transatlantic crossings, caravan routes
- business travelprivate jets, expense report, client meeting, itinerary, conference
- tourism metricsoccupancy rate, occupancy rates, hotel occupancy, ADR, GOP
- globalizationglobalization, free trade, global village, global trade, multinationals
international traveldomestic travel
Trips within one's nation
domestic tourism · staycation · road trip · day trip · interstate travel
international travelstaying home
Not going out
staying put · sedentary lifestyle · homebound · immobility · sedentariness
international travelinsularity
Narrow detachment from broader views
provincialism · parochialism · localism · cultural isolation · xenophobia