The phrase "a thorough tour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a detailed and comprehensive exploration of a place or subject.
Example: "The museum offers a thorough tour that covers all the exhibits and their historical significance."
Alternatives: "an in-depth tour" or "a comprehensive tour".
The art of Cornwall was indivisible from its landscape, and Fox provides a thorough tour of both – explaining equally how the scene bloomed, but also how it faded.
A thorough tour of the Biltmore estate, (800) 543-2961, with its chateau, winery and 75 acres of gardens, can take the better part of a day, yet it is not easy to leave anything out.
Now, I had assumed that Atlantis was on Santorini in Greece (site of the largest volcanic explosion known on earth), not the Bahamas, and that Nessie-spotting could only be done after a thorough tour of regional single malts.
So when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made a late appearance at the launch party, Musk gave him a thorough tour of the car, detailing the location of the battery pack in the floor pan, the eventual rear-facing child seats, the electronic cutoff that caps the speed at a hundred and thirty miles per hour.
His readers will follow him through any door marked "Danger: Keep Out" (or, in more literary terms, "Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here"), because they know that not only will he give them a thorough tour of the inferno — no gore left unspilled, no shriek left unshrieked — he will also get them out alive.
Tony Bechara, the museum's chairman and a painter from Puerto Rico but not El Barrio, gave me a thorough tour, beaming with pride about last summer's wildly successful show of the Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and the permanent exhibition about the Taino Indians, the ancient indigenous people of Puerto Rico.
The wine list provides a sufficiently thorough tour of Italy's regions without impoverishing you in the process.
When the speech had been read the Queen opened the great iron gates of the market with a golden key, and then set out with her son and the Home Secretary to make a very thorough tour of the huge glass-roofed building.
At Global Ethanol we received an amazingly thorough tour of how an ethanol plant works – from where the grain goes in and ever step it takes to not only be turned into ethanol and loaded into a truck or rail tank, but also the other products which are a result of the process such as Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS).
[Politico] A thorough photo tour of CPAC's exhibit hall, and the crazy found therein.
Building blocks From the Messapian, Roman and early Christian ruins of Egnazia (00 39 080 482 9056; egnaziaonline.it; entry €3), between Bari and Brindisi, to the baroque splendour of Lecce's Piazza del Duomo, a thorough architectural tour of Puglia would require repeat visits.
