The travel industry is an amazingly diverse industry.

Brilliant, motivated companies and individuals craft services, provide tours and vacations and devote huge amounts of time to giving travellers memories that will last a lifetime and provide great dinner conversations (or even bragging rights) for years to come.

We also come up with some interesting Jargon

Our post today is a little experiment on crowd sourcing to see how many of you great Tweeps know some of the wierd and wonderful travel Jargon words that travellers and travel industry people (Tweeps) know or come across.

If you know a good piece of Jargon that people always ask about or you just have a particular quirky favourite submit it (Update: Along with the Definition please I forgot to add this before - ooops). Just for fun we’ll give 2 (2) lucky submitters a $50 I-tunes vouchers.

For all our regular blog readers you can also submit via the comments here.

We will publish the list here to be used under creative commons so feel free to contibute, build upon and use. If the Travel Jargon List get’s too big for the blog we’ll put it up on the Tourabout site so all can access it there.

So get submitting

Entries that make the list will be attributed to the person who submits it and all entries get one chance each at the prize so increase your chances and dish out a few pearls of travel wisdom.

Bonded: Protected or guaranteed by a bond. Used by agents and tour operators to protect consumers.  @tourabout

ICE: Immigration & Customs Enforcement. @flyingwithfish

Junket: A trip ostensibly taken for business purposes, which is primarily for pleasure. @travelblggr

LDW (Loss Damage Waiver): Insurance that covers theft, vandalism & accidental damage to rental car. Like CDW (Collision) @tourabout 

Lido Deck: The area around the swimming pool on a cruise ship. @tourabout 

NFL: Not Pro Football it means No FLy List @flyingwithfish

Open Jaw: A trip that has no air travel between two points on the itinerary. @DouglasQuinby

Pax: a person or passenger (first used by Airlines) @tourabout

Rack Rate. The price hotels charges for rooms before any discount. Same as Walk in Rate, Run of House. @tourabout

SLC. (or SLF) Self-loading cargo/ Self Loading Freight aka passengers @globtrav

Zero Entry Pool. Pool with bottom sloping from water level down to let people walk in. Sometimes covered in sand like a beach. @travelanswers

3 Holer: An MD-11/DC-10 /727 or L-1011 Aircraft. Careful where you use, may get you smacked! @flyingwithfish

Enjoy !

Winner 1…………………… @globtrav donated his tunes back to the Twitterverse

So Winner 1 is ……………@flyingwithfish

Winner 2…………………… @travelblggr

Congrats to the winners and thanks to all for participating #traveltuesday was a little fun and quirky because of your insights. 

Official rules and details:

1. Contest will run on #TravelTuesday 16th June 2009.
2. You may enter contest as many times as you’d like via Twitter or via the comments on this blog, however, if you are chosen as a prize winner, you are not eligible to win the other prize during this giveaway.
3. In order to enter, you must send out a tweet from your Twitter account with the #TravelTuesday hashtag and @tourabout included (the rest of the tweet text is for your travel jargon entry). Each different travel jargon definition sent with @tourabout & #TravelTuesday included will be considered an entry into the giveaway.
4. A winner will be chosen, at random, at 11.59pm Tuesday Australian Eastern Standard Time and one awarded at the end of #TravelTuesday 11.59pm in Honolulu and announced via Tourabout’s official Twitter account (www.twitter.com/tourabout or @Tourabout).
5. Winning prize will include a AUD$50 (Australian Dollar) gift voucher to the I-tunes store.
6. No purchase is necessary to enter (i.e. you do not need to be an existing Tourabout member in order to be eligible to win the daily prize).

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