tourism
/ˈtʊəɹɪzəm/
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British/ˈtoːɹɪzəm/
tourism noun: the act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.
Noun
tourism (usually uncountable, plural tourisms)
- The act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.
- Mass tourism damaged the beach.
- The state treats Jeju tourism as ideological contraband. […] By criminalizing tourism, the state criminalizes faith.2025 November 26, Fang Yongrui (pseudonym), “Tourism as Treason: Pastor Sun Chenghao Sentenced to Four and a Half Years for a Trip”, in Bitter Winter, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2025
- The industry in which such travels and sightseeing are organized.
- Tourism brings a lot of tax revenue to the area.
- The act of visiting another region or jurisdiction for a particular purpose.
- libel tourism; suicide tourism; sex tourism
tourism meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tourism in Hindi
- the act of travelling or sightseeing
- पर्यटन paryaṭan, देशाटन deśāṭan, टूरिज़्म ṭūrizma, सियाहत siyāhat
- industry
- पर्यटन paryaṭan
tourism in Tamil
- சுற்றுலாத்துறை
tourism in Marathi
- the act of travelling or sightseeing
- पर्यटन paryaṭan
tourism in Urdu
- the act of travelling or sightseeing
- سِیاحَت siyāhat, ٹُورِزْم ṭūrizm
More languagesFewer languages
- tourism in Bengali
- পর্যটন porjoṭon
- tourism in Malayalam
- വിനോദസഞ്ചാരം vinōdasañcāraṁ, ടൂറിസം ṭūṟisaṁ
- tourism in Kannada
- ಪ್ರವಾಸೋದ್ಯಮ
- tourism in Sanskrit
- पर्यटन paryaṭana, पर्यटनम् paryaṭanam
- tourism in Sinhala
- සංචාරක saṁcāraka
- tourism in Assamese
- পৰ্যটন porzoton
- tourism in Pashto
- سياحت sayāhat, ټوريزم ṭorizǝm
- tourism in Tagalog
- turismo
- tourism in Arabic
- سِيَّاحَة siyyāḥa
- tourism in Malay
- pelancongan
- tourism in Indonesian
- pariwisata, kepariwisataan, turisme
- tourism in Thai
- การท่องเที่ยว gaan-tɔ̂ng-tîao
- tourism in Vietnamese
- sự du lịch, du lịch, lữ hành
Examples of tourism in a sentence
- The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
- The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.
- There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.
Forms of tourism
| plural | tourisms |
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Origin of tourism
From tour + -ism.
Words formed from tourism
- abortion tourism
- accessible tourism
- adventure tourism
- agritourism
- agrotourism
- alcotourism
- alternative tourism
- antitourism
- apitourism
- aquatourism
- architourism
- astrotourism
- avitourism
- benefit tourism
- birth tourism
- bookstore tourism
- burglary tourism
- class tourism
- conscious tourism
- crime tourism
- cultural tourism
- cybertourism
- dark tourism
- disaster tourism
- ecotourism
- educational tourism
- enotourism
- ethnotourism
- faith tourism
- fertility tourism
- film tourism
- fuel tourism
- gambling tourism
- gastrotourism
- geotourism
- ghetto tourism
- health tourism
- jungle tourism
- libel tourism
- literary tourism
- mass tourism
- medical tourism
- nontourism
- overtourism
- party tourism
- pescatourism
- phototourism
- poorism
- posttourism
- protourism
- religious tourism
- romance tourism
- sex tourism
- space tourism
- suicide tourism
- sustainable tourism
- teletourism
- thanatourism
- tourismphobia
- tourist
Phrases with tourism
Questions about tourism
- What does tourism mean?
- Tourism means the act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.
- What is tourism in Hindi?
- Tourism in Hindi is पर्यटन (paryaṭan), देशाटन (deśāṭan), टूरिज़्म (ṭūrizma). See Tourism meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tourism?
- Tourism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tourism?
- Tourism is pronounced /ˈtʊəɹɪzəm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tourism?
- The plural of tourism is tourisms.
Words near tourism in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tourism (page history and authors); tourism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tourism (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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