tourist trap

noun

: a place that attracts and exploits tourists

Examples of tourist trap in a Sentence

The street market is a tourist trap that mostly sells cheap souvenirs.

That hotel is just a tourist trap.

Recent Examples on the Web

Today, some bright spots aside, the Art Deco District’s historic commercial spine is a drab length of vacant and unkempt storefronts, smoke shops, liquor stores, fast-food outlets, cheap T-shirt emporia and other varieties of tourist trap. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026

Some locals say the trend is more theater than tradition and a surefire way to identify a tourist trap. — Natalie B. Compton The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2026

The natural mineral water, which takes 15 years to filter through glacial rocks before flowing out of the tap, is not just a tourist trap but where locals come to fill up multiple bottles at a time. — Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 11 July 2026

Burnstine suggested bypassing highway tourist traps and downloading tracking apps to hunt down cheap fuel. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for tourist trap

• handicap
• overlap
• thunderclap
• wiretap
• app
• cap
• chap
• clap
• crap
• flap
• frap
• gap