took a vacation

[keannu]

[FONT=&#48148]I went on overseas trips several times, but mainly for the east Asia. I got a chance to visit the UK on a business trip, so I took a vacation for Highlands tour/to take a tour of Highlands.[/FONT]


Are the underlined parts correct?

 

[Tarheel]

Say:

I have been on overseas trips several times, but mainly to east Asia.

 

[tedmc]

[FONT=&#48148]I went on overseas trips several times, but mainly for the east Asia. I got a chance to visit the UK on a business trip, so I took a vacation for Highlands tour/to take a tour of Highlands.[/FONT]


Are the underlined parts correct?

I had a chance to visit the UK on a business trip and I took a tour to the Highlands.

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps:

I was in the UK on a business trip, and I took a side trip to tour the Highlands.

 

[jutfrank]

I had a chance to visit the UK on a business trip and I took a tour to the Highlands.

It isn't right to say take a tour to a place. We take tours of places or go on trips to places. It's unclear which of those keannu means.

Also, I'm not certain about American English, but take a vacation to a place doesn't sound right to my British ear. I would expect to hear go on vacation.

 

[tedmc]

To spend the vacation in/at a place
To go for vacation to a place

would be okay I think.

 

[tedmc]

It isn't right to say take a tour to a place. We take tours of places or go on trips to places. It's unclear which of those keannu means.

Also, I'm not certain about American English, but take a vacation to a place doesn't sound right to my British ear. I would expect to hear go on vacation.

I was confused by keannu.
To tour a place.
Take/do a tour of a place.
Go for a tour of a place.
Join a tour of a place.
A travel agent sells tours to/of foreign countries? (The tour originates from the home country)

 

[jutfrank]

Go for a tour of a place.

More normally, go on a tour of a place.

There are differences of use/meaning between go on and go for in contexts like these. (Perhaps a topic for a separate thread.)

A travel agent sells tours to/of foreign countries? (The tour originates from the home country)

A travel agent sells tours of foreign countries (not to). It's confusing because often the packages that they sell include the means of going to the place.

You could argue, I suppose, that the flight to wherever you're going is seen by the travel agent as included in the tour itself. But I don't think that's right, and besides, it still sounds wrong to say 'a tour to somewhere'.

 

[keannu]

Finally I changed like this. "took a vacation" should be included as it means applying for a vacation to the company.
For example, during my whole trip in the UK - business trip for three days and private trip from vacation for two days.
[FONT=&#48148]
I took a vacation to tour/to take a tour of the Highlands.[/FONT]

 

[emsr2d2]

Do you mean that during/after your business trip you also took a two-day private trip to the Highlands?

I think maybe you're mixing up "take a vacation" with "take [annual] leave".

 

[Tarheel]

Finally I changed like this. "took a vacation" should be included as it means applying for a vacation to the company.
For example, during my whole trip in the UK - business trip for three days and private trip from vacation for two days.
[FONT=&#48148]
I took a vacation to tour/to take a tour of the Highlands.[/FONT]

That's messed up starting with the first word of the first sentence. Also, despite giving that post a "like" you seem to have rejected my suggestion in post #4.

You seem to have mixed things up. Whether you took a side trip or not is a different matter from whether or not you had permission from the company to do so.