touring
v.v. travelling around a place to see the sights or perform for different audiences. You use this when you visit several locations in one trip.
v. travelling through a region or from place to place for pleasure or performance. The present participle form of 'tour', often used to describe a continuous sequence of visits.
The band is touring the country this summer.
We spent three weeks touring the Italian countryside by train and visiting small villages.
While touring the historic district, the architects noted that many of the original facades had been preserved despite the rapid urban development in the surrounding area.
The verb is often used transitively with a location as the object, or intransitively when the context of travel is clear.
We are touring to FranceWe are touring FranceWhen 'touring' means visiting a place, it is transitive and does not require the preposition 'to'.