Goodwill tour

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

Notable goodwill tours
gollark: I would say "good job" but it isn't good.
gollark: So basically it's a really poorly disguised remote access tool.
gollark: Oh I see, there's a bit at the end.
gollark: It's lyqyd's nsh, as far as I can tell.
gollark: It just does nonsense and downloads another program.
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