How to Use tourism in a Sentence

tourism

noun
  • She has a job in tourism.
  • The city developed the riverfront to encourage tourism.
  • The true test will come this winter, the busiest tourism season.
    Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The tourism board has also increased the fee charged to hikers.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The name was changed to Ocean Springs in the mid-1800s because of mineral springs in the area that first brought tourism to the town.
    Kayla Michelle Smith, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In the ’70s, tourism to Antarctica, a two-day boat ride away, boomed.
    Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • So tourism won’t be about benders and showing skin at the beach, then?
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The story sounds like it was plucked out of a tourism campaign, or the depths of my subconscious.
    Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The tourism surge has led to a housing crisis, a water shortage and a traffic mess.
    Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The lodge had not hosted a visitor for more than a year, Kenya's tourism ministry confirmed to The Times.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Will tourism, the lifeblood of this island, ever return to normal?
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Meanwhile, tourism for the big event is expected to bring $1 billion in Texas.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Both projects offer benchmarks of the island’s model of green tourism.
    Michaela Trimble, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But that may not shield her in a place where the tourism industry accounts for 75% of private sector jobs.
    Audrey McAvoy and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Last summer, the most immediate threat was to beach tourism.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Where do the world’s big cruise lines, a major cog in South Florida’s tourism industry, go from here?
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Activists warn that the project will damage habitat and the vital tourism industry.
    Abdi Latif Dahir Arlette Bashizi, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But many natives of the Cycladic islands say that a full overhaul of Greece’s tourism model is needed.
    Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Ethan, who was studying recreation, sport and tourism management, would be 21 next month.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • To figure out which tourism spots can be deemed the most relaxing in the nation, the team first built a seed list of all 50 states and a list of the 20 most famous cities in America.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Some people are genuinely concerned about what those farms will do to fishing, wildlife, and tourism.
    Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • While locals might need to put their waterfront walks on pause, the burgeoning bloom is also poised to cause a major halt in tourism.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Looking toward the future, the Ukrainian tourism industry has high hopes.
    Carole Rosenblat, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
  • With that in mind, Diallo sees Sleep in Africa expanding in great ways to accommodate the growing pride for this form of tourism.
    Amara Amaryah, Essence, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Muslims use the mosque daily for prayers, weddings and funerals, according to the mosque’s tourism website.
    USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Maui relies heavily on tourism for jobs, and the economy is reeling.
    Gene Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Bear viewing has become one of the biggest tourism draws in the state, but the limited bear-viewing areas in Southeast Alaska haven’t been able to meet the demand.
    Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • By the time of Picasso’s death in 1973, the excesses of package tourism were beginning to blight the coastline, and, as the century drew to a close, parts of the city were scruffy and dangerous.
    Lisa Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
  • That would allow districts known for tourism to keep renting, and shield residential areas from the growing wave of short-term rentals.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 July 2023
  • The mayor said that tourism is still an important part of the island's economy and said visitors should still come to Hawaii and explore the parts of Maui that are not off limits.
    Becky Worley, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2023

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