detouristify

Verb

detouristify (third-person singular simple present detouristifies, present participle detouristifying, simple past and past participle detouristified)

1. (rare) To stop conforming to the expectations or patterns of tourists.
   • If the spectacle of the junior Edimburgeoisie going native in Spain was intended to detouristify Carmen, it hardly succeeded.1991, Owen Dudley Edwards, City of a Thousand Worlds: Edinburgh in Festival, page 53
   • Nero enjoyed taking long walks in old cities, without a map. He used the following method to detouristify his traveling: he tried to inject some randomness into his schedule by never deciding on the next destination until he had spent some time in the first one, driving his travel agent crazy—when...2014, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, page 144

   Antonyms:

   touristify