A goodwill tour is a tour by someone or something famous to a series of places, with the purpose of expressing benevolent interest or concern for a group of people or a region, improving or maintaining a relationship between parties, and exhibiting the item or person to places visited.
Goodwill tours are meant to be friendly; however, in some cases, they may be intimidating to the people or the government at the place visited. At the same time, a visit by a goodwill tour might be used as a way of "reminding" the place and government visited of a friendship previously established or assumed.
Examples of the term
* A goodwill tour of the
Mediterranean by ships of the
U.S. Navy.
* A goodwill tour by the
Graf Zeppelin.
* A goodwill tour of the Commonwealths by the monarch.
* A goodwill tour of
South America by the
Pope.
* A goodwill tour of the United States by
James Monroe
Notable goodwill tours
* The
Latin America goodwill tour by President-elect Herbert Hoover in November–December 1928.
* The goodwill tour by the
USS ''Maine'' (ACR-1) to Havana harbor.
* The goodwill tour to
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
by
Admiral Perry in 1852.
* The goodwill tour to
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
by the
San Francisco Seals (baseball) in 1949.
*
Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 goodwill tour of India and Pakistan
* The worldwide GIANTSTEP-APOLLO 11 Presidential Goodwill Tour by the Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969.
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Laura Bush visits Middle East in goodwill tour"Dance Troupe From Israel Wraps Up Goodwill Tour of America"
Ceremonies
Naval ceremonies
Diplomacy
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