Hub-and-spoke tours
Self-supported tours
Fully-loaded tours
Day tours
Cross-country tours
End-to-end tours
Round the World tours (RTW)
Short tours
Long tours



The definitions of all of these (yours and mine) overlap and vary depending on the person doing the tour, what the person is doing, and what the person decides to call it.


Rowan and I are doing a Round-the-World, starting in a little over a week. We're flying, taking trains, using ferries, and of course cycling on our trip around the world. The tour will also be a "Long tour", may incorporate "day tour", "hub-and-spoke" and "credit card" elements now and then, may include a "cross country" or perhaps an "end-to-end" or two, and will be mainly "self-supported" and "fully loaded". It won't likely include any "expedition" elements, and won't likely be "supported". And we've done a couple "short tours", one "credit card" tour, and several "hub-and-spoke" and "day" tours, in preparation for it.