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Tour
Tour or Tours may refer to: Travel * Tourism, travel for pleasure * Tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service * Campus tour, a journey through a college or university's campus * Guided tour, a journey through a location, directed by a guide * Walking tour, a visit of a historical or cultural site undertaken on foot Entertainment * Concert tour, a series of concerts by a musical artist or group of artists in different locations * Comedy tour, an organized trip where comedians travel to various places; see List of stand-up circuits * Touring theatre, independent theatre that travels to different venues Sports * Professional golf tours, otherwise unconnected professional golf tournaments * Tennis tour, tennis played in tournament format at a series of venues * Events in various sports named the Pro Tour (other) * Tour de France ('), the world's biggest bicycle race Places * Tour-de-Faure, Lot, France * Tour-en-Bessin, Calvados, France * Tour-en-Sologne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be Domestic tourism, domestic (within the traveller's own country) or International tourism, international. International tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, tourism numbers declined due to a severe Economy, economic slowdown (see Great Recession) and the outbreak of the 2009 2009 flu pandemic, H1N1 influenza virus. These numbers, however, recovered until the COVID-19 pandemic put an abrupt end to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tours-en-Savoie
Tours-en-Savoie (; ) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan .... See also * Communes of the Savoie department References Communes of Savoie {{Savoie-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touré
Touré is the French transcription of a West African surname (English transcriptions are '' Turay'' and '' Touray''). The name is probably derived from ''tùùré'', the word for 'elephant' in Soninké, the language of the Ghana Empire. The clan existed as kings of Zaghari on the middle Niger Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state Geography of Niger#Political geography, bordered by Libya to the Libya–Niger border, north-east, Chad to the Chad–Niger border, east ... before the Moroccan invasion of Ghana. A theory of their origin holds that the Touré are descended from the "Roum," pre-Arab North African soldiers, and local women.Massing, Andrew W., ''The Wangara, an old Soninke Diaspora in West Africa?'', Cahiers d’Études africaines, 158, XL-2, 2000, pp. 281-308, https://web.archive.org/web/20070628220805/http://etudesafricaines.revues.org/docannexe6104.html, accessed 11/30/2020 People Notable people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tour (other)
The Tour may refer to: *The Tour de France cycling race * ''The Tour'' (album), a 1998 live album by Mary J. Blige *'' The Olivia Tremor Control/Black Swan Network'', an album also known as The Tour EP * The Tour (Kiss and Mötley Crüe), a 2012 concert tour * ''The Tour'' (film) (''Turneja''), a 2008 Bosnian/Serbian film See also *The Grand Tour, a tour of Europe and the Holy Land conducted by British gentleman in the 18th and 19th century * 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States, widely and controversially known as The Tour in New Zealand * ABBA: The Tour, third and final concert tour by ABBA * Streisand: The Tour, unofficial name of Barbra Streisand's fall 2006 North American concert tour * Anthems: The Tour, debut headlining concert tour of Kerry Ellis {{DEFAULTSORT:Tour, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latour (other)
Latour may refer to: People * LaTour, American musician Surname * House of Baillet ** Alfred de Baillet Latour (1901–1980), Belgian count ** Henri de Baillet-Latour (1876–1942), Belgian aristocrat and the third president of the International Olympic Committee ** Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour (1737–1806), a general in Austrian service ** Theodor Franz, Count Baillet von Latour (1780–1848), Austrian soldier and statesman * Bruno Latour (1947–2022), French sociologist * Hanspeter Latour (born 1947), Swiss football manager and former goalkeeper * Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), French painter and lithographer * Joseph Latour (1806–1863), French Romantic Drawer and painter * Jason Latour (born 1977), American comic book artist and writer * Jean Théodore Latour (1766–1837), French composer * José Latour (born 1940), Cuban crime fiction writer * Peter Scholl-Latour (1924–2014), German-French journalist and publicist * Pierre Latour (born 1993), Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tour (other)
La Tour may refer to: Places Canada * Port La Tour, Nova Scotia France * La Tour, Alpes-Maritimes * La Tour, Haute-Savoie * La Tour-Blanche, Dordogne * La Tour-d'Aigues, Vaucluse * La Tour-d'Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme * La Tour-de-Salvagny, Rhône * La Tour-de-Sçay, Doubs * La Tour-du-Crieu, Ariège * La Tour-du-Meix, Jura * La Tour-du-Pin, Isère * La Tour-en-Jarez, Loire * La Tour-Saint-Gelin, Indre-et-Loire * La Tour-sur-Orb, in the Hérault Switzerland * La Tour-de-Trême, Fribourg * La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud United States * La Tour, Missouri Other uses * ''La Tour'' (comic), comic book by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters * La Tour (surname) * Château Latour, a French wine estate in the north-west of Bordeaux * LaTour, American musician, disc jockey and voice over artist See also * * Latour (other) Latour may refer to: People * LaTour, American musician Surname * House of Baillet ** Alfred de Baillet Latour (1901–1980), Belgian count * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Tour (other)
The Grand Tour is a tour of European cultural centres that once was a standard feature of the education of the European elite. Grand Tour may also refer to: Entertainment Music * ''Grand Tour'' (Big Big Train album) * ''The Grand Tour'' (album), 1974 album by George Jones * ''The Grand Tour'', a 1993 album by Aaron Neville * "The Grand Tour" (song), title track from Jones' 1974 album * ''The Grand Tour'' (musical), a 1979 Broadway musical * ''Grand Tour'', a 1959 musical with music by David Shire * '' Grand Tour: The Classic'', a 2013 Asian live concert tour of South Korean boyband Shinhwa * '' Grand Tour: The Return'', a 2012 Asian live concert tour of South Korean boyband Shinhwa Other entertainment * Grand Tour (novel series) (1985–2017), series of science fiction novels by Ben Bova * '' Grand Tour: Disaster in Time'', a 1992 science fiction film (a.k.a. ''Timescape'') * '' The Grand Tour'', a British motoring television series * '' The Grand Tour Game'', a 2019 vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tours FC
Tours Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tours (), was a football club based in Tours, France. Formed in 1919, the club adopted the name Tours FC in 1951 after several other name changes. The club was dissolved on 26 February 2025 due to years of financial struggles. Home matches were played the Stade de la Vallée du Cher located within the city. History Tours Football Club was founded in 1919 as under the name ''AS Docks du Centre''. After two years of playing under the moniker, the club changed its name to ''AS du Centre''. The club spent 30 years under the name as French football entered professionalism in the 1930s. In 1951, the club changed its name again to the current Tours FC. Under the Tours emblem, the club achieved success in its infancy reaching the Round of 64 in the Coupe de France thanks to player-coach Alfred Aston that same year. Tours was promoted to the first division in 1980. Prior to the start of the season, the club signed prolific str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
