In an effort to capitalize on this unwelcome downtime between connecting flights, hotels and travel companies are selling what they call layover tours and stopover packages.
Mumford & Sons have announced a summer round of its Stopover Festivals tour, which the group describes as "a music festival that celebrates local people, food and culture, where everyone pitches in and everybody gets something back.
According to curator and tour-guide estimates, only about half of the 2,000 people who visit the Walt Whitman House in Camden, N.J., each year come because they are interested in Whitman (as opposed to a nice historical stopover after touring the battleship down the road).
The only PGA Tour stopover in Massachusetts is going out of business.
And for once, Connecticut is the destination, not the tryout place or the tour stopover.
Combine your stopover with a tour of the magnificent Roman remains recently opened to the public inside Palazzo Valentini.
Speaking by telephone on a standup-tour stopover between Wichita, Kan., and Grand Forks, N.D., Mr. Cook described his role as "a character that hopefully people will love to hate".
The accompanying music video was shot in Tokyo during her 2006 Confessions Tour stopover.
Wanda Lee Nichols said Bowie assaulted her after inviting her to his hotel room Oct. 9, 1987, during a concert tour stopover in Dallas.
With its raw beauty of sea-carved landscapes and regular ferry links to both Stockholm and Tallinn, Helsinki is a vital stopover on a tour of northern European capitals.
