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: one that makes a tour for pleasure or culture
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tourist
adjective or adverb
Synonyms
Examples of tourist in a Sentence
The museums attract a lot of tourists.
In the summer the town is filled with tourists.
The tourists defeated the home side.
Recent Examples on the Web
Every expedition there felt like an unpredictable game of hopscotch, leaping between a Cantonese-dominant China of the century past and one custom-built for American tourists.
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Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
The latest move by the city will target tourists’ wallets.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 25 Apr. 2024
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The U.S. Embassy in Nassau, Bahamas, issued a travel alert in September 2023 warning tourists about this exact scenario.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 Apr. 2024
This year, the city’s tourist tax increased from 7% to 12.5% – the highest in Europe.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
Each year, researchers, tourists and hikers from around the world visit the Umm Jirsan lava tube system in Saudi Arabia, looking to explore the sprawling network of underground tunnels formed by lava flow millions of years ago.
—Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
The city of Amsterdam will ban nearly all new hotels and restrict the number of tourists who can stay overnight each year in its latest effort to combat overtourism.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2024
Amsterdam has been searching for any way to rein in the number of tourists that visit the city every year.
—Claire Moses, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
Heinz put up the ketchup stand two weeks ago not far from hot dog stands and restaurants and plenty of passers-by, both tourists and locals alike.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
The latest move by the city will target tourists’ wallets.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 25 Apr. 2024
Read Next: This Happened to Me: The Police Raided My Deer Hunt
The U.S. Embassy in Nassau, Bahamas, issued a travel alert in September 2023 warning tourists about this exact scenario.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 Apr. 2024
This year, the city’s tourist tax increased from 7% to 12.5% – the highest in Europe.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024
Each year, researchers, tourists and hikers from around the world visit the Umm Jirsan lava tube system in Saudi Arabia, looking to explore the sprawling network of underground tunnels formed by lava flow millions of years ago.
—Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
The city of Amsterdam will ban nearly all new hotels and restrict the number of tourists who can stay overnight each year in its latest effort to combat overtourism.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2024
Amsterdam has been searching for any way to rein in the number of tourists that visit the city every year.
—Claire Moses, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
Heinz put up the ketchup stand two weeks ago not far from hot dog stands and restaurants and plenty of passers-by, both tourists and locals alike.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
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“Tourist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tourist. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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