Helicopter

[bieasy]

Hi,

Is the following passage correct?

Is it correct to say: "We do a flightseeing tour over Rio de Janeiro by helicopter"

 

[jutfrank]

Yes, that's fine. Even though I've never heard the word flightseeing before, the meaning of the sentence is very clear.

 

[Rover_KE]

One lives and learns. I was going to say we can't endorse a word which is in no dictionaries, but looked it up to be on the safe side and there it is - in Oxford, no less.

 

[emsr2d2]

I hadn't heard it until today but I like it.

I had, however, seen "frightseeing" used on a website which advertised tours of haunted buildings.

 

[teechar]

Personally, I don't like it because it implies one is seeing "flights" and because it cuts out the word "sight" which I do like.

 

[GoesStation]

I think I'll take a tightseeing tour of a distillery.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm going to try to visit the tallest buildings in the world - I'm going "heightseeing". ;-)

 

[GoesStation]

I'm going to visit Svalbard in June and stay up all night. Lightseeing has always appealed to me.

 

[bieasy]

Is there a more appropriate word than "flightseeing"?

 

[Rover_KE]

sightseeing

 

[GoesStation]

"Helicopter tour". Flightseeing is a marketing term designed to add a little glamor to the image of the activity.