Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The occupation or sport of touring.

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  • noun tourist industry

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  • noun the business of providing services to tourists

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Examples

  • The Garfagnana, again, cannot be bettered if you avoid such touristry as Bagni di Lucca; but then Castelnuovo is bare, and though

    Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

  • It was a pure little isle of touristry among these solitary hills.

    The Silverado Squatters 1884

  • Under these safeguards, portly clergymen, school-mistresses, gentlemen in grey tweed suits, and all the ruck and rabble of British touristry pour unhindered, MURRAY in hand, over the railways of the Continent, and yet the slim person of the ARETHUSA is taken in the meshes, while these great fish go on their way rejoicing.

    An Inland Voyage 1878

  • Under these safeguards, portly clergymen, school-mistresses, gentlemen in grey tweed suits, and all the ruck and rabble of British touristry pour unhindered, Murray in hand, over the railways of the

    An Inland Voyage Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Under these safeguards, portly clergymen, schoolmistresses, gentlemen in grey tweed suits, and all the ruck and rabble of British touristry pour unhindered, "Murray" in hand, over the railways of the Continent, and yet the slim person of the _Arethusa_ is taken in the meshes, while these great fish go on their way rejoicing.

    The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • a pure little isle of touristry among these solitary hills.

    The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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