tourist court

noun

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as in motor court

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Recent Examples of tourist court Other than a rebranding from Goodnight Court to Classic Inn, little has changed over the past eight decades at the tourist court. — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026 No longer a tourist court, the building was reconfigured into a private home. — Ray Hanley, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025 Fewer still remember the traditions of autocamps and tourist courts. — Andrew Wood, Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tourist court
  1. youth hostel
  2. motor inn
  3. spa
  4. motel
  5. motor lodge
  6. resort
Noun
  • The pair had spent the previous night talking for hours after meeting by chance in the elevator of a youth hostel in Munich in May 1998.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Home to a youth hostel and folk museum, Glencoe is mostly a destination for outdoorspeople looking to kayak, mountain climb, go trekking, or pitch tents.
    — Timothy Latterner, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of youth hostel
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  • In the not-too-distant past, the building at the west end of Hart Lane was a former mid-century motor inn that had seen its best days.
    — Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • Penny Lane The Lark Hotel Group has taken over a former motor inn that had seen better days.
    — Nancy Kane, Curbed, 25 June 2026
Definition of motor inn
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  • Its 37 rooms are flanked by living room-like communal spaces, a restaurant and a spa drawing from Ottoman hammams and Caucasian palazzos.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Condé Nast Traveler readers also picked the best spa resorts, cruise lines and hotels in the world.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of spa
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  • The woman panicked and ran to find a friend who lives at the motel.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Evidence leads to the mother, her boyfriend FWPD told CBS News Texas that investigators returned to the motel on Monday to review surveillance video.
    — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of motel
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  • Inspired by the American roadside motor lodge of yore, Tourists is built for contemporary design lovers with lots of light wood on the banks of the Hoosic River.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Down the road, Hotel Willa, which occupies the site of a former 1960s adobe motor lodge, reopened in May 2025 as a 51-room luxury boutique hotel.
    — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2026
Definition of motor lodge
Noun
  • Occupying a particularly picturesque and secluded stretch of headland, where Aleppo pines drape rocky coves and the cerulean Mediterranean waves lick the similarly shaded horizon, the resort is the hospitality group’s first foray into the Balearics.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Rooms All of the resort's 320 guest rooms, including 57 suites, have been arranged around the stunning landscape beyond its floor-to-ceiling windows.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of resort

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