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touristscape

touristscape noun: any and all things of interest to a tourist, including attractions, cultural sites, restaurants and hotels, souvenir shops, tourist districts.

Noun

touristscape (plural touristscapes)

  1. Any and all things of interest to a tourist, including attractions, cultural sites, restaurants and hotels, souvenir shops, tourist districts.
    • Markers of Hawaiian-ness customize the urban "touristscape" in large and small ways.1999, Jane Desmond, “Let's Lu'au”, in Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (Business), University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 14
    • …they shape a community's touristscape, scale and impacts ...2004, Peter E. Murphy, Ann E. Murphy, “Tourism Leadership”, in Strategic Management for Tourism Communities (Business), Channel View Publications, →ISBN, page 146

Forms of touristscape

pluraltouristscapes

Origin of touristscape

From tourist + -scape.

Questions about touristscape

What does touristscape mean?
Touristscape means any and all things of interest to a tourist, including attractions, cultural sites, restaurants and hotels, souvenir shops, tourist districts.
What part of speech is touristscape?
Touristscape is a noun.
What is the plural of touristscape?
The plural of touristscape is touristscapes.

Words near touristscape in the dictionary

  1. touristiness
  2. touristing
  3. touristlike
  4. touristry
  5. tourists
  6. touristscape
  7. touristscapes
  8. touristy
  9. tourize
  10. tourized
  11. tourizes

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