| Booking | A confirmed reservation against a listing or event, with a durable identity and lifecycle (booked → confirmed → upcoming → checked-in → completed). |
| Checkout | The single confirmation step where an itinerary becomes confirmed bookings, with itemized subtotal, taxes, and fees. |
| Destination | A place travelers discover by interest, season, budget, and search. Destinations surface stays, tours, experiences, and events. |
| Event | A dated entertainment offering (concert, show, festival, attraction) discoverable by destination and bookable on the same spine as stays. |
| Experience | An activity or tour offered by a host or operator, such as a cooking class, guided hike, or cultural workshop. |
| Host / Operator | The supply side of the marketplace — individuals or businesses that list stays, tours, experiences, or events. |
| Itinerary | A traveler's day-by-day plan containing stays, tours, experiences, and tickets, with a live running total. |
| Listing | The unit of supply: a stay, tour, experience, or event owned by a host or operator. Listings move through verification before going live. |
| Marketplace operator | The administrator who runs the platform control room — approves listings, oversees bookings, and monitors marketplace health. |
| Provider | A registered host or operator entity (guesthouse, tour company, venue) that owns listings and manages a booking queue. |
| Review | A traveler rating and text review of a completed stay, tour, or event, which rolls into the listing's overall rating. |
| Trip | The traveler's post-purchase home: a grouping of bookings that advances through their lifecycle on one timeline. |
| Trip timeline | The unified view that follows every booking from booked to checked-out, with reminders along the way. |
| Verification lifecycle | The process a listing follows from created → submitted → verified/active, gating discovery and bookings. |
| Workspace | The Burdenoff container that owns members, roles, listings, bookings, trips, billing, and audit for a GGNomad tenant. |