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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tourism
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
health tourism
sex tourism
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
international
▪ One high priority is creating an international hospitality and tourism firm.
mass
▪ Our resort areas are typical, but away from mass tourism.
▪ Little more need to said about mass tourism in this period.
▪ This has kept mass tourism at bay.
▪ The pink marble reception area was a monument to the vulgarity of mass tourism.
■ NOUN
industry
▪ Only a few weeks ago, I was in Newbury talking to representatives of the local tourism industry.
▪ Meantime, in Florida, the tourism industry is growing more than ever, spurring thousands of new jobs, economists said.
▪ Toledo hopes to promote a tourism industry that he wants to make a cornerstone of economic recovery.
▪ Once the development is over or the travel and tourism industry falters, so might Las Vegas, some analysts say.
▪ Then they did their bit for the tourism industry - by taking a break in Dorset and Hampshire.
▪ But his exposure to the tourism industry extended beyond his actual job description.
▪ These modules will be suitable for students employed within the travel and tourism industry, especially if they intend working abroad.
▪ And, for those who work in the travel and tourism industry, this tax could cost them their jobs.
■ VERB
boost
▪ Their experts are not infallible, as when the World Bank boosted tourism in the 1960s as a sure-fire multiplier of development.
▪ As a result, city official Masashiro Honda said Mikuni hopes to boost its tourism as a leading industry.
▪ It will go on sale at Christmas, and it's hoped to use the release to boost tourism in the city.
develop
▪ He also stated that the Corsican economy could develop harmoniously around the tourism industry.
▪ Communities must take stock of their assets, he said, and devise a strategy to develop tourism or industry.
increase
▪ Like oxygen bottles on Everest and increasing Himalayan tourism, bolting is something which has to be controlled.
▪ Business travel will continue to grow, and increased domestic and foreign tourism will also create demand for additional hotels and motels.
promote
▪ Toledo hopes to promote a tourism industry that he wants to make a cornerstone of economic recovery.
▪ Some genius says: promote tourism.
▪ The town council has been promoting business tourism and conferences.
▪ Then, in the 1970s, the government expropriated thousands of acres of ejido land nationwide to promote tourism and other development.
▪ The bureau promotes tourism in the county and is funded by the county and several cities.
▪ If they can spend money promoting the export of chickens, I think they can spend money promoting tourism.
▪ But if it is meant to promote tourism, Faulkner family members say, the writer would want no part of it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Tourism is an important part of Egypt's economy.
▪ As part of a plan to increase tourism, visitors spending less than 90 day do not need a visa.
▪ The country relies on tourism and the sale of raw materials for hard currency.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, for those who work in the travel and tourism industry, this tax could cost them their jobs.
▪ Animal rights groups have called for a tourism boycott in protest against the plan.
▪ Can tourism damage the qualities on which it is based?
▪ It is perhaps particularly appropriate to consider tourism in an issue of the magazine whose theme is writers.
▪ Mass tourism started in 1989 when the first 340 Windsurf guests arrived.
▪ Primary Production Agriculture, forestry, fishing and tourism are major employers in DRAs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tourism

1811, from tour (n.) + -ism.

Wiktionary
tourism

n. 1 The act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home. 2 Collectively, the tourists visiting a place or landmark. 3 (cx figurative English) The act of visiting another region or jurisdiction for a particular purpose.

WordNet
tourism

n. the business of providing services to tourists; "Tourism is a major business in Bermuda" [syn: touristry]

Wikipedia
Tourism (Roxette album)

Tourism: Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms, and other strange Places is the fourth album by Swedish pop duo Roxette. Released on 28 August 1992, it was recorded mostly during their Join the Joyride world tour and is often mistaken for being a live album. In fact, it is a mixture of live and studio tracks.

Tourism (Leftfield album)

Tourism is a live album by electronica musicians Leftfield released in March 2012 with an accompanying DVD with visuals from their latest tour, made by the visual artist collective Ne1co. The album was recorded between 5th - 18th March 2011 at The Future Music Festival across Australia and at The Enmore Theatre, Sydney and The Palace, Melbourne.

Tourism (constituency)

The Tourism is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1998. The constituency is composed of the members of the associations in the tourist industry.

Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism may be international, or within the traveler's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only ", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".

Tourism can be domestic or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Today, tourism is a major source of income for many countries, and affects the economy of both the source and host countries, in some cases being of vital importance.

Tourism suffered as a result of a strong economic slowdown of the late-2000s recession, between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, and the outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus, but slowly recovered. International tourism receipts (the travel item in the balance of payments) grew to trillion ( billion) in 2011, corresponding to an increase in real terms of 3.8% from 2010. International tourist arrivals surpassed the milestone of 1 billion tourists globally for the first time in 2012, emerging markets such as Russia and Brazil had significantly increased their spending over the previous decade.

Usage examples of "tourism".

Tourism had taken over during the Affluence, but the Chaos had revived the classical way of life.

During the times when the Bay was stingy, tourism kept the town alive.

It was described in the pamphlets Kevin had forwarded to him, from the Veridian Department of Tourism.

No apple wholesaler or grocery chain VIP or apple lobbyist or state tourism official would ever sit at my table thinking the McGillens of Chocinaw County had not returned to their former glory, or that I was an unsophisticated Daisy Mae with a few apples to sell.

The extra time would allow Bedford to invest in and attract new industries like tourism.

The intersection of Dauphine and Bienville still retained some of the character of the French Quarter Doodlebug remembered from his childhood, decades before most of the Quarter metamorphosed into a tarted-up tourism gold mine.

But by the time I graduated law school, the oil industry was collapsing, leaving Natchez to survive on the revenues of tourism and federal welfare money.

Whereas Paloduro was the most beautiful of the four planets, the center for tourism and the residential center of the system, another world, Dinero Grande, was the administrative and business center.

We should be delighted that our tourism promoters finally are taking a responsible approach.

Home banking, private newspapers, subscriptions to cultural events, tourism packages and airline tickets - are all candidates for Net-Trading.

In addition, worldwide recession had been depressing hard-currency earnings of Algerian tourism and petroleum exports, which magnified the economic crisis and increased unemployment.

Like his famous ancestor, Kenny never looked back, intrepid scout that he was, broaching the frontier of automotive tourism.

Tourism had sustained this part of the coast thirty years ago, but rising fuel prices and a falling birth rate had changed all that.

A few months ago I informed the Andorran Ministry of Tourism as well as the Ministry of Culture, through the Director of Tourism, Sergi Nadal, that I needed a copy of the documentaries that I made about Andorra (17) for my personal files, in VHS.

Many picturesque, outback villages got their first taste of tourism not from families driving Fords or Chevrolets, but from clusters of boozing "city boys" on motorcycles.