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tourist

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noun

a person who is traveling, especially for pleasure.

tourist class.

adverb

in tourist-class accommodations, or by tourist-class conveyance: to travel tourist.

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Origin:
1770–80; tour + -ist

Related forms

non·tour·ist, noun

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Hotels, restaurants, shops and tourist guides are complaining of a huge drop in income.

Realize that you are at a conference, not on a tourist junket.

But for less distinctive destinations the collapse in tourist traffic has been catastrophic.

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Hotels, restaurants, shops and tourist guides are complaining of a huge drop in income.

Realize that you are at a conference, not on a tourist junket.

But for less distinctive destinations the collapse in tourist traffic has been catastrophic.

So it really is a matter of how you want to travel, and this isn't saying it's bad to be a tourist.

Certain to become a tourist attraction, this site may one day also house the first moonbase.

If you live in a tourist destination town, you see people snapping the same pictures all the time.

Springdale is a lot more appealing than many of the tourist towns that have sprouted up on the edges of national parks.

Earlier this week, the first paying female space tourist lifted off.

Although not everyone was happy about the invasion of the pinnipeds, eventually they became a huge tourist attraction.

During that month the city, except for its main tourist arteries, is a radically different place from its usual self.

Today, such delegations are under much more scrutiny, and tourist visas are easier to obtain.

They are the major tourist attraction for the island and need to be protected.

And thankfully, beyond the globalized tourist traps, he still can.

Missouri headquarters into a pioneer village type tourist attraction.

The actual date that tourist flight begin relies not only on testing and manufacturing, but on government approval.

Thus the biggest tourist attraction is still viable.

Not surprisingly, the government wants to stimulate hotel building and other tourist infrastructure.

Hard to get past the first page of name-dropping and tourist advertising.

The author is nothing but an elistist looking to spew his tourist experience with the world.

Papandayan is a popular tourist destination, so enforcing the exclusion might be difficult.

Hotels are booming and additional tourist guides are being trained.

The old quarries were re-used as ossuaries-underground cemeteries turned tourist attractions, albeit limited ones today.

The coffee shop depended on tourist stopping on the way to the beach.

Even though this time of year is the low tourist season, the people depend on the tourists to survive.

It is preparing to let foreigners buy property in tourist zones.

Not that he is a tourist by any common-sense notion of the word.

The motels and restaurants that line the main drag depend on tourist dollars for.

And tourist bureaus, hotels, and others are pulling out all the stops to lure.

Bermuda's tourist trade is thriving, and it's a regular stop on many cruise ship itineraries.

Get a load of the town's oddball charm by playing tourist for the.

Then some tourist on safari sticks his camera out the window.

Sacred summit, tourist attraction, dangerous volcano.

As he says: become a traveler rather than a tourist.

Sip and stroll close to home and far away from the tourist hordes.

To be successful, such a gadget has to go way beyond the electronic phrase books and generic tourist directories available today.

Bulky cameras scream tourist and make you more of a target for theft.

In the shadows, the hustlers who live off the tourist trade wondered what to do.

City insets and brief historical and tourist information for.

Sergey has no credentials to discuss this topic beyond those of any journalist or tourist visiting the zone.

Take one of these wine country daytrips to sip and stroll close to home and far away from the tourist hordes.

The sheep farmers are still here, the gold miners ghosts merely tourist attractions.

Smuggle it in in the back pocket of a returning tourist.

In that case, tourist numbers fell for about a year.

Meager tourist visitation numbers tripled in the last ten years.

The great thing about cycling as a tourist is that you never stop seeing things.

And as the tourist season progresses, he also begins to realize that he is being taken.

Halfway isn't the first town to take on an unusual namesake in the hopes of generating economic and tourist buzz.

Or that archaeology can be an enormous boost for the tourist economy.

Tax revenues, tourist arrivals, banking profits and the number of construction permits all soared by a third or more.

Has tourist facilities, but not a tourist atmosphere".

Balancing tourist access and the preservation of the sandstone city may be a tough call.

It was his initial interest that helped forge the connections making today's few space tourist trips possible.

The tourist industry has an interest in making you think that food here is as expensive as you think it is.

Tourist dollars are important for this sparsely populated, landlocked.

The front features a large-scale city map that highlights tourist and business travel locations.

Go through the tourist information office to get the best price.

Thirty years later, the rabbit-packed island is now a tourist destination:.

Its main use since seems to have been as a tourist attraction.

Others are being killed for their shell, which is carved into ornaments or used for making tourist trinkets".

Our town is a tourist destination for vacationers looking to spend a quiet time in the mountains or unique crafts and antiques.

Most of the original biomes are a tourist attraction.

Maps feature a large-scale city map, richly layered with tourist and.

Now a tourist attraction, access to the area is by guided.

It was an old tourist attraction, with steps and handrails and electric lights.

Billy was bitten by a dog that a tourist brought to the springs.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

tourist (ˈtʊərɪst)

—n
1.	a. a person who travels for pleasure, usually sightseeing and staying in hotels
	b. (as modifier): tourist attractions
2.	a person on an excursion or sightseeing tour
3.	a person travelling abroad as a member of a sports team that is playing a series of usually international matches
4.	Also called: tourist class the lowest class of accommodation on a passenger ship

—*adj*
5.	of or relating to tourist accommodation

tour'istic

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

tourist

first attested 1780, from tour (n.); tourist trap attested from 1939, in Graham Greene.

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Computing Dictionary

tourist definition

jargon
A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a luser.
Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
Compare twink, read-only user.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)

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"Unchecked, the tourist will climb over the fence and come right into your house to take pictures of you in your habitat. Cities mindful of tourists have built elaborate "tourist traps" which, luckily, work. Tourists are kept confined to these, and few escape. There is, of course, the type known as the "intrepid tourist." This one has to be watched carefully or he can become most annoying. Little wonder these are so often the target of terrorists. If there is an aspect of benign terror about the tourist, there is also a great deal of tourist in the terrorist. Terrorists travel with only one thing in mind, just like the tourist, and the specifics of places escape them both. Terrorists travel for the purpose of shooting unsuspecting foreigners, just as tourists travel for the purpose of shooting them with a camera."

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