Show that there are $(n-1)!/2$ distinct tours for a Euclidean traveling salesman problem on $n$ points?
We may reason in a combinatorial way.

There are $n!$ permutations of $n$ nodes, but that overcounts the number of tours in two different ways. Since tours are closed, we may start indifferently on any of the $n$ nodes, and we may choose the direction in $2$ ways. Therefore, each tour was counted a total of $2n$ times.

This yields the desired result.