WordNet
n. an area where many people go for recreation [syn: playground, vacation spot]
Usage examples of "resort area".
A developer had tried to turn it into a resort area a decade ago--hence the ski lift--but the idea had failed miserably.
Not compared to the fact that he had chosen to write off a third of the total resort area and make no effort at all to search for anyone who might be out there and alive.
Bass Lake is not really a town, but a resort area -- a string of small settlements around a narrow, picture-postcard lake that is seven miles long and less than a mile wide at any point.
Eventually they hit on becoming an all-out, any thing-goes resort area.
Soon they were out of the city altogether and leaving the highly developed resort area behind.
But the fun-lovers will not patronize a resort area where people go around wiring bombs into boats.
It was quite a gruesome little tableau to unfold on a Sunday evening in a resort area, the singular attraction of which is, ironically, its unique tropical sea life.
He spent three hours wandering around the hotel and the surrounding resort area, some of it still showing signs of damage caused by a whopper of a hurricane called Gilbert years before.