tourist draw
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atracción turística
- The murals are a lucrative cultural tourist draw that tells the story of Philadelphia to the world.
- a big tourist draw
- a major tourist draw
- a top tourist draw
Examples
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The dramatic karst peaks along the nearby Li River are a big tourist draw, while the hotel itself has comfortable, simple rooms.
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The Yucatan's turquoise cenotes and excellent diving are also tourist draws.
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There are no major tourist draws.
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With all of the other tourist draws in our area, we probably wouldn't notice a drop in attendance.
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A popular tourist draw on the river, Belin is known to locals as "the Amazonian Venice."
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The best place to begin in Hanoi is with the city's top tourist draw—the Old Quarter.
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Butrint's beautiful marshland, exotic birds and animals, nearby beaches, picturesque ruins, and largely unspoiled feeling were some of Albania's main tourist draws.
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They won't grow in this soil, but 3 hours away in East TX (Palestine), where my parents lived/family homestead, the dogwoods are a big tourist draw in the spring.
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The park's wolves and its other wildlife are a major tourist draw in Alaska.
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Peru's government hopes the museum will become a major tourist draw once it opens in May.
Synonyms
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A show, event, or place that draws visitors
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A place people visit because it is interesting or famous
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A performer or event that brings many people
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A place people visit because it is interesting or beautiful
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A place, show or event that people should not miss
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A place people visit for rest and fun
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A place that many people visit, especially tourists
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A place people show to visitors for its beauty or interest
How Attractive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place or event that pulls in tourists' is directly and predictably built from 'tourist' (visitors) and 'draw' (to pull in). Even if 'draw' is nominalized here, the compositional idea of something that draws tourists is transparent and matches common cross-linguistic patterns like 'tourist attraction'.
Etymology
Tourist draw creates a picture of a place that pulls people in like a magnet. Here tourist means visitors and draw means to pull. So it means 'a place, event, or attraction that brings in many visitors'.