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tourism

tourism

132 1.3
Travel to other places for pleasure and the businesses that help travelers
  • noun
  • /ˈtʊrɪzəm/
translation icon : turismo
  • During the times when the Bay was stingy, tourism kept the town alive.
  • educational tourism
  • heritage tourism
  • tourism and travel

Space adventure, not space tourism and and we should cheer them on.

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Examples

  • Now LA Serinissima faces the challenges of mass tourism and rising seas.

  • None of them had previously participated in educational tourism, perhaps for this very reason.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And last I checked, tourism is up and Wall Street is doing just fine.

  • These would be used for education, cultural tourism, etc.

  • We rely heavily on our revenue from tourism.

  • Indeed, some educational tourism operations in Australia are partly owned by universities.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And as you know, this type of psychedelic tourism has positive and negative aspects.

  • China does not allow any helicopter use for tourism in Tibet.

  • In our laboratories, we generate a new kind of tourism, gastronomic tourism.

  • The local economy thrives on tourism, providing jobs and support for small businesses.

Synonyms

touristry
vstourism
  • UK
6.4

A business that offers services and places for visitors

focuses on the activity of people traveling for pleasure and learning

Compounds

Travel to another country to get health care, often at lower cost

A time when many more people than usual visit a place for holidays

libel tourism
  • Jargon
9.5

Going to another country to sue someone for saying bad things about you

Traveling to another country to get medical treatment or wellness care

How Nomadic

nomadism
7.9
vagabonding
1 8.1
backpacking
13 3.0
tourism
132 1.3

Surface Forms

tourism singular
tourisms plural

Morphology

tourism = tour (transparent) = tour + ism

Formed by the noun 'tour' + the productive noun-forming suffix '-ism' meaning the activity or practice of touring, which a B1 learner can deduce.

Etymology

Tourism comes from the word tour, meaning 'a trip around places', plus the ending -ism, which marks an activity. So, tourism is the activity or business of taking tours for pleasure.