Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
Aldeamento Turístico
English translation:
Holiday Village (UK)
Added to glossary by
Mark Robertson
Mar 15, 2011 13:20
13 yrs ago
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Portuguese term
Translations by lawyers for lawyers
Native in: English 
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Aldeamento Turístico
Portuguese to English
Law/Patents
Tourism & Travel
definição: meio complementar de alojamento turístico constituído por um conjunto de instalações funcionalmente independentes e arquitectonicamente homogéneas, implantadas num espaço delimitado
That is the legal definition. Equivalent EN term: Tourist/touristic village? I don't like it.
That is the legal definition. Equivalent EN term: Tourist/touristic village? I don't like it.
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Marian Vieyra
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WorldWideWords
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Holiday Village (UK)
Or Vacation Village for US. From the dictionary.
Note from asker:
| This I like more. A bit of lateral thought always helps. |
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Comment: "Thanks. Now part of my glossary."
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Lucy Phillips
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resort village
wonder if this is an equivalent term - it's certainly very common?
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MedTrans&More
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holiday park
going by the definition given, this is what we usually call it in the UK
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Note from asker:
| This is effectively a fixed trailer park. An aldeamento is very much bricks and mortar. |
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Juliet Attwater
United Kingdom
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tourist hamlet
A marginally less cheesy twist perhaps? there are hits all over the web, from GB to France, to Iran, the US and Greece...
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or even....holiday hamlet !!!! (at least not epoisses :)
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Note added at 30 mins (2011-03-15 13:51:32 GMT)
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or even....holiday hamlet !!!! (at least not epoisses :)
Note from asker:
| Still slightly Rocquefort though not Gorgonzola |
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Marlene Curtis
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Marlene Curtis
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Tourism village
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=Tourism village &...
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tourism village is a village area which have some special characteristics of a place as tourism object. In this area, the traditions and culture of local community are still pure. A tourism village is also coloured by some supporting factors, such as local cuisine/food, agriculture system and social system. Besides, pure nature and environment are added points for a tourism village.
Good facilities to provide a village becoming a tourism object are also important. These facilities make visitors who come to a tourism village enjoy their vacation. So, all tourism villages are completed by many supporting facilities, such as transportation, telecommunication, medical, and accommodation facilities. The accommodations in tourism village are special. Visitors can spend the nights using homes stay provided in the village. It gives visitors a memorable moment because they can feel a purely village atmosphere.
http://www.central-java-tourism.com/desa-wisata/en/about.htm
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There are plenty more to choose from below.
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=Tourism village &...
Note from asker:
| This was so obviously poorly written by a non-EN native speaker that I am wary of it as a good source. |
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Verginia Ophof
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(vacation) resort town
suggestion
Towns which are resorts — or where tourism or vacationing is a major part of the local activity — are sometimes called resort towns.
Towns which are resorts — or where tourism or vacationing is a major part of the local activity — are sometimes called resort towns.
Example sentence:
Towns which are resorts — or where tourism or vacationing is a major part of the local activity — are sometimes called resort towns.
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connie leite
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Holiday resort
I would say it this way.
Peer comment(s):
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Diana Coada (X)
: Also correct. Hundreds of hotels with various facilities call themselves ''aldeamentos'' and they are far from being villages or towns.
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thanks Diana
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Nicole L. R.
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