TOURISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tourism mean? 

• TOURISM (noun)
  The noun TOURISM has 1 sense:

1. the business of providing services to tourists

  Familiarity information: TOURISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOURISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The business of providing services to tourists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

tourism; touristry

Context example:

Tourism is a major business in Bermuda

Hypernyms ("tourism" is a kind of...):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tourism"):

ecotourism (tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature)

Derivation:

tourist (someone who travels for pleasure)

 Context examples 

The lakes also support major economies, including fisheries and tourism.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

Egyptian officials hope the discovery will help the country's efforts to revive tourism.

(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)

The drylands are also used for tourism and for spiritual or cultural ceremonies.

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

The tomb was discovered by Egyptian archeologists and could boost Egypt's slowly recovering tourism industry.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In them, no economic activity is allowed—no matter how sustainable—except tourism and scientific research.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

Still others - California's Lake Tahoe, for example - support thriving tourism industries.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)