Tour or Tours may refer to:

Travel

Tourism 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 mor ...

, travel for pleasure *

Tour of duty For military personnel, a tour of duty is usually a period of time spent in combat or in a hostile environment. In an army, for instance, soldiers on active duty serve 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the length of their service commitment. ...

, a period of time spent in military service *

Campus tour A college tour, also called a campus tour, is a tour of a college or university's campus. Prospective students, their family members and other visitors take campus tours to learn about the college or university's facilities, as well as student life, ...

, a journey through a college or university's campus * Guided tour, a journey through a location, directed by a guide *

Walking tour A walking tour is a tour of a historical or cultural site undertaken on foot, frequently in an urban setting. Short tours can last under an hour, while longer ones can take in multiple sites and last a full day or more. A walk can be led by a tou ...

, a visit of a historical or cultural site undertaken on foot

Entertainment

Concert tour A concert tour (or simply tour) is a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different cities, countries or locations. Often concert tours are named to differentiate different tours by the same artist and to associate a specific to ...

, a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different locations * Touring theatre, independent theatre that travels to different venues

Sports

Professional golf tours Professional golf tours are the means by which otherwise unconnected professional golf tournaments are organised into a regular schedule. There are separate tours for men and women; most are based in a specific geographical region, although some to ...

, otherwise unconnected professional golf tournaments *

Tennis tour {{For, the professional head-to-head tennis tours ran before the Open Era, Tennis Pro Tours A tennis tour (or tennis circuit) is tennis played in tournament format at a series of venues – a tour – over during a set period of weeks or months. P ...

, tennis played in tournament format at a series of venues * Events in various sports named the Pro Tour (disambiguation) *

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

('), the world's biggest bicycle race

Places

Tour-de-Faure Tour-de-Faure (; oc, Torre-de-Faure) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Lot department The following is a list of the 313 communes of the Lot department of France France (), ...

, Lot, France *

Tour-en-Bessin Tour-en-Bessin (, literally ''Tour in Bessin'') is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. History World War II After the liberation of the area by Allied Forces in 1944, engineers of the Ninth Air For ...

, Calvados, France * Tour-en-Sologne, Loir-et-Cher, France *

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...

, Indre-et-Loire, France * Tours-en-Savoie, Savoie, France * Tours-en-Vimeu, Somme, France * Tours-sur-Marne, Marne, France * Tours-sur-Meymont, Puy-de-Dôme, France * Tours, Texas, United States

People

* James Tour (born 1959), nanoscientist * La Tour (surname)

Other uses

Tours FC Tours Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tours (), is a French association football club based in Tours, the capital city of the Indre-et-Loire department. The club was formed in 1919 and currently play at the fifth level of French ...

, a French association football club based in Tours