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Definition: Tourist |
TouristNoun1. Someone who travels for pleasure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tourist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
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Computing | Tourist n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and/or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing). Compare twink, lurker, read-only user. 2. [IRC] An IRC user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything; see channel hopping. Source: Jargon File. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are a tourist, denotes that you will engage in some pleasurable affair which will take you away from your usual residence. To see tourists, indicates brisk but unsettled business and anxiety in love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tourism is classically regarded as travelling for recreation although this definition has been expanded in recent years to include any travel outside of one's normal working or living area.
The tourist originated when large numbers of middle class people began to join aristocratic travellers. As societies became wealthier, and people lived longer, it became not only possible but probable that lower-middle and middle class people steadily employed would retire in good health and with some significant savings.
The tourist is usually interested (among other things) in the destination's climate, culture or its nature. Wealthy people have always traveled to distant parts of the world, not incidentally to some other purpose, but as an end in itself: to see great buildings or other works of art; to learn new languages; or to taste new cuisines.
Organised tourism is now a major industry around the world. Many national economies are now heavily reliant on tourism.
The term tourism is sometimes used pejoratively, implying a shallow interest in the societies and natural wonders that the tourist visits.
History
The words tourist and tourism were first used as official terms in 1937 by the League of Nations but the tourism industry is much older than that. It was defined as people travelling abroad for periods of over 24 hrs, but the term may also include travelling within one's own country, and in a broader sense it can include daytrips.King George III is widely acknowledged as the first "tourist", who took regular holidays to the seaside town of Weymouth when in poor health.
"Tourism", like any other form of economic activity, occurs when the essential parameters come together to make it happen. In this case there are three such parameters:
Individually, sufficient health is also a condition, and of course the inclination to travel. Furthermore, in some countries there are or have been legal restrictions on travelling, especially abroad.
- Disposable income, i.e. money to spend on non-essentials
- Time in which to do so.
- Infrastructure in the form of accommodation facilities and means of transport.
The word tour gained common acceptance in the eighteenth century, when the Grand Tour of Europe became part of the upbringing of the educated and wealthy British nobleman or cultured gentleman. Grand tours were taken in particular by young people to "complete" their education. They travelled all over Europe, but notably to places of cultural and aesthetic interest, such as Rome, Tuscany and the Alps.
Most major British artists of the eighteenth century did the "Grand Tour", as did their great European contemporaries such as Claude Lorrain. Classical architecture, literature and art have always drawn visitors to Rome, Naples, Florence.
The Romantic movement (inspired throughout Europe by the English poets William Blake and Lord Byron, among others), extended this to gothick countryside, the Alps, fast flowing rivers, mountain gorges, etc.
The British Aristocracy were particularly keen on the Grand Tour, using the occasion to gather art treasures from all over Europe to add to their collections. The volume of art treasures being moved to Britain in this way was unequalled anywhere else in Europe, and explains the richness of many private and public collections in Britain today. Yet tourism in those days, aimed essentially at the very top of the social ladder and at the well educated, was fundamentally a cultural activity. These first tourists, though undertaking their Grand Tour, were more travellers than tourists.
Tourism in the modern sense of the word did not develop until the nineteenth century; that was leisure travel, which today forms the larger part of the tourist industry.
Again the leisure industry was a British invention, for sociological reasons. Britain was the first European country to industrialize, and the industrial society was the first society to offer time for leisure to a growing number of people. Not initially the working masses, but the owners of the machinery of production, the economic oligarchy, the factory owners, the traders, the new middle class.
Leisure travel had developed as an offshoot of cultural tourism, partly as health tourism. Some English travellers, after visiting the warm lands of the South of Europe, decided to stay there either for the cold season or for the rest of their lives, but this was a very minor development.
It was not until the nineteenth century that leisure tourism really began to develop, as people began to "winter" in warmer climates, or to visit places with health-giving mineral waters, in order to relieve a whole variety of diseases from gout to liver disorders and bronchitis.
The British origin of this new industry is reflected in many place names: At Nice, one of the first and most well established holiday resorts on the French Riviera, the long esplanade along the sea front is known to this day as the Promenade des Anglais; and in many other historic resorts in continental Europe, old well-established palace hotels have names like the Hotel Bristol, Hotel Carlton or Hotel Majestic - reflecting the dominance of English customers to whom these resorts catered in the early years.
Even winter sports, as a leisure activity rather than as a means of transport, were largely invented by the British leisured classes. It was English tourists who invented winter sports at the Swiss village of Zermatt (Valais).
Until the first tourists appeared, the villagers of Zermatt just thought of the long snowy winter as being a time when the best thing to do was to stay indoors and make cuckoo clocks or other small mechanical items.
Organized sport was already well established in Britain long before it reached other countries. The vocabulary of sport bears witness to this: rugby, football, and boxing are all British sports, and even Tennis, originally a French sport, was formalized and codified by the British, who invented the first national championship in the nineteenth century, at Wimbledon. Winter sports were a natural answer for a leisured class looking for amusement during the coldest season.
Mass tourism did not really begin to develop, however, until two things had occurred.
a) improvements in communications allowed the transport of large numbers of people in a short space of time to places of leisure interest, and
b) greater numbers of people began to enjoy the benefits of leisure time. The biggest development of all was the invention of the railways, which brought many of Britain's seaside towns within easy distance of Britain's large urban centres.The father of modern mass tourism was Thomas Cook who, on July 5, 1841, organised the first package tour in history, by chartering a train to take a group of teetotalers from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, some twenty miles away. Cook immediately saw the potential for business development in the sector, and became the world's first tour operator.
He was soon followed by others, with the result that the tourist industry developed rapidly in early Victorian Britain. Initially it was supported by the growing middle classes, who had time off from their work, and who could afford the luxury of travel and possibly even staying for periods of time in boarding houses.
However, the Bank Holiday Act of 1871 introduced, for the first time, a statutory right for workers to take holidays, even if they were not paid at the time.
The combination of short holiday periods, travel facilities and distances meant that the first holiday resorts to develop in Britain were towns on the seaside, situated as close as possible to the growing industrial connurbations. For those in the industrial north, there were Blackpool in Lancashire, and Scarborough in (Yorkshire). For those in the Midlands, there were Weston-super-Mare in Somerset and Skegness in Lincolnshire, for those in London there were Southend-on-Sea, Broadstairs, Brighton, Eastbourne, and a whole collection of other lesser known places. But for a century, tourism remained a national industry, with foreign travel being reserved, as before, for the rich or the culturally curious. A minority of resorts, such as Bath, Harrogate and Matlock, emerged inland, a trend boosted by the emergence of the Dutch company Centre Parcs.
Similar processes occurred in other countries, though at a slower rate, given that nineteenth century Britain was far ahead of any other nation in the world in the process of industrialisation. Billy Butlin developed low-cost holiday camps with chalet-style budget accommodation and mass catering near many attractive beaches. Other companies, such as Pontins followed his example, but their popularity waned with the rise of package tours and the increasing comforts to which visitors became accustomed at home.
In the USA, the first great seaside resort, in the European style, was Atlantic City, New Jersey.
In Continental Europe, early resorts included Ostend (for the people of Brussels), and Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) and Deauville (Calvados) (for Parisians).
Even so, increasing speed on railways meant that the tourist industry could develop slowly, even internationally. By 1901, the number of people crossing the English Channel from England to France or Belgium had already passed 0.5 million per year.
Other phenomena that helped develop the travel industry were paid holidays:
What the railway did for domestic tourism in the nineteenth century, the airliner and the package tour have done for international tourism since 1963. For the worker living in greater London, Brindisi today is almost as accessible as Brighton was 100 years ago.
- 1.5 million manual workers in Britain had paid holidays by 1925
- 11 million by 1939 (30% of the population in families with paid holidays)
Tourism has become a multi-billion pound international industry, and one that is growing in developed countries (source countries) at a rate considerably faster than annual growth levels.
Receptive tourism is also growing at a very rapid rate in many developing countries, where it is often the most important economic activity in local GDP.
Mass tourism has been stagnating and declining in recent years. The Costa del Sol and the Baleares, which attracted millions of tourists annually during the 1980s and 1990s, and other resorts such as Cancun have seen declining tourist numbers as they have become seen as untidy or ugly or simply lacking in kudos due to their past popularity. The mass tourist economy has also been hit badly by terrorism, with specific attacks on destinations such as Bali and Kenya. For the past few decades other forms of tourism have been becoming more popular, particularly:
In recent years, second holidays or vacations have been becoming more popular as people have more disposible income. Typical combinations are a package to the typical mass tourist resort, with a winter skiing vacation or weekend break to a city or national park.
- Ecotourism: Sustainable tourism which has minimal impact on the environment, such as safaris (Kenya) and Rainforests (Belize), or National Parks.
- Cultural Tourism: Usually urban tourism, visiting historical or interesting cities, such as London, Paris, Prague, Rome, New York etc.
- Heritage Tourism: Visiting historical or industrial sites, such as old canals, railways, battlegrounds etc.
- Health Tourism: Usually to escape from cities or relieve stress, often to "health spas".
- Sport Tourism: Particularly skiing.
Tourism in specific countries
Information on tourism and touring in several countries is available in:
See also: Agritourism - Backpacking - Ecotourism - History of tourism - Hospitality Services - Hotel - Popular tourist regions - Sex tourism - Tourism in literature - Transport - Individual Visit Scheme
- Tourism in Albania
- Tourism in Australia
- Tourism in Austria
- Tourism in the Baltics
- Tourism in Belgium
- Tourism in Brazil
- Tourism in Bulgaria
- Tourism in Canada
- Tourism in The Caribbean
- Tourism in China
- Tourism in Czech
- Tourism in Denmark
- Tourism in England
- Tourism in Egypt
- Tourism in Finland
- Tourism in France
- Tourism in Germany
- Tourism in Greece
- Tourism in Hawaii
- Tourism in Hong Kong
- Tourism in Hungary
- Tourism in India
- Tourism in Ireland
- Tourism in Italy
- Tourism in the Netherlands
- Tourism in Norway
- Tourism in Poland
- Tourism in Portugal
- Tourism in Puerto Rico
- Tourism in Russia
- Tourism in Scotland
- Tourism in Seychelles
- Tourism in Singapore
- Tourism in Slovenia
- Tourism in Spain
- Tourism in Sweden
- Tourism in Ukraine
- Tourism in the USA
- Tourism in Wales
External links
- CapitanCook - an open content, Wiki, global travel guide.
- CountryGuide - editor-maintained directory of links for researching country travel, vacations, relocation, or retirement.
- Global Travel Guides - Interactive guides to 3000 cities around the world
- Hospitality Club - a free global network of people offering hospitality to each other when traveling.
- Lonely Planet Destinations Guide - a great resource for finding information about a particular location.
- Rough Guides Travel - thoroughly researched travel guides to the world's countries, targeting shoestring to luxury travellers.
- StateGuide - destination 'cheat sheet' for researching vacation, relocation, retirement, and military sites in the US. Approx. 4500 towns.
- Wikitravel - an open content, Wiki, global travel guide under CreativeCommons licence.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tourism."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TOT | English | Tourist Occupancy Tax | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TouristSynonyms: holidaymaker (n), tourer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Traveler | Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Sure, sure, just like every tourist. Just like America (The Beach; writing credit: John Hodge) I'm no tourist. (Rambo III; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone) Are you a tourist or a native (The Oscar; writing credit: Harlan Ellison; Clarence Greene) I'm not a tourist. (The Transporter; writing credit: Luc Besson; Robert Mark Kamen) Well, looks like I married myself a tourist attraction (Paint Your Wagon; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky; Alan Jay Lerner) | |
Clever | If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tourist Go Home (1959) The Tin Can Tourist (1937) Mont. Tourist Train Leaving Livingston (1897) The Environmental Tourist (1992) Transsexual Tourist (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | I think I'll take this thing for a spin NOAA diver gets ready for a spin on a tourist moped At the end of the cruise ship piers in Nassau. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Robert A. Earle availing himself of rickshaw service A tourist stop on the way out to the Philippines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Sponges and other paraphernalia of the sponge industry in a tourist market. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A tourist facility at Sharam-al-Sheik, southern Sinai Peninsula. Credit: Small World. |
 | The international tourist beach at Aqaba, Jordan. Credit: Small World. |  | Tourist hotels at Eliat, Israel. Credit: Small World. |
 | Tourist resort at Eliat, Israel, with Swiss motif. Credit: Small World. |  | Tourist camp, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
 | Close shot of tourist dog at Warner Wet Lands, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |  | Large Rogue tourist Jet Boat in the Rogue River Hellgate Canyon. Credit: Becky Brown. |
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| "Tourist" by Celia Martinez Bravo Commentary: "2000| Prague. Tourists viewed from Council's Tower view point ." | "Tourist house" by SsJ Toma Commentary: "A tourist house in Vállus." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The walking part was all the elder tourist could manage |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Most usual tourist activities pose little or no risk that travelers will be exposed to rodents or their urine and/or droppings. (references) | |
In the Northern and Southern hemispheres, travelers also can get the flu during the summer, especially when traveling as part of large tourist groups that include persons from areas of the world where the flu is active. (references) | ||
Business | The end user of tourism infrastructure is the tourist. (references) | |
U.K. Travelers represent almost half of all tourist arrivals in Ireland. (references) | ||
Egypt is a developing country with extensive facilities for the foreign tourist. (references) | ||
Children | Honduras | Child prostitution is a problem in some tourist areas of the country. (references) |
Switzerland | Children of foreigners working as migrant laborers only are permitted to visit on tourist visas for a period of 3 months at a time. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | Some in the tourist industry have facilitated the sexual exploitation of children; particular areas of concern are Boca Chica and Puerto Plata. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Burma | Burmese embassies now issue tourist visas, valid for 1 month, within 24 hours of application. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Individuals present in the country on tourist or work visas, or illegally, sometimes file petitions with the UNHCR to obtain refugee status. (references) | |
Tunisia | The demonstration was designed to express national outrage at the brief occupation of the Paris office of the Tunisian National Tourist Bureau by the French NGO RSF. The Paris protest, led by RSF secretary general Robert Menard, called on the Tunisian Government to release activist Sihem Bensedrine. (references) | |
Economic History | Greece | Greece is a major tourist destination. (references) |
Belize | Tourism (22% of GDP): Tourist arrivals (2000)--180,760. (references) | |
Poland | The average Polish tourist spent USD 260 abroad per trip. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | In July 2000, Chihuahua state judicial police arrested three soldiers for raping and beating a tourist. (references) |
Algeria | At 1:00 a.m. on July 25, armed terrorists entered a pizza shop in the tourist town of Tipaza and opened fire with automatic weapons, killing two persons. (references) | |
Jordan | On September 18, 2000, the Security Court convicted 22 suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist network for planning attacks at tourist sites around the country during millennium celebrations. (references) | |
Political Economy | Cuba | Most citizens remained barred from tourist hotels, beaches, and resorts. (references) |
THE BAHAMAS | Businesses in the tourist district report a 50 percent decrease in sales. (references) | |
Jordan | Ongoing violence in the occupied territories continued to adversely affect the tourist industry and foreign investment. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | Philippine imports of fresh vegetables have previously been restricted and occasional imports were allowed only for tourist oriented establishments. (references) |
Italy | Dollar currency, travelers checks, and, in some cases, personal checks, may be exchanged at banks, exchange offices, and authorized tourist offices and hotels. (references) | |
Dominican Rep | Most commercial lending is short term (1 - 5 years), although financing for construction or tourist projects with government funding has terms of 12 years or more. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | Tourist facilities are adequate but vary in quality. (references) |
Armenia | Rush service exists only for tourist and ordinary visas. (references) | |
Chile | Renewing a business or tourist visa has a cost of US$ 100.00 per person. (references) | |
Women | Jamaica | The law prohibits prostitution; however, it is widespread, especially in tourist areas. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kazakhstan | The Prosecutor General reported that most of these tourist agencies closed voluntarily after the inspections. (references) |
China | Tourist hotels and restaurants have been "encouraged" to dismiss ethnic Tibetan employees educated abroad, as well. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger, as, lord 'Aberdasher, Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather flattery than true reverence. Miss Sallie Ann Splurge, of her own accord, Wedded a wandering English lord -- Wedded and took him to dwell with her "paw," A parent who throve by the practice of Draw. Lord Cadde I don't hesitate to declare Unworthy the father-in-legal care Of that elderly sport, notwithstanding the truth That Cadde had renounced all the follies of youth; For, sad to relate, he'd arrived at the stage Of existence that's marked by the vices of age. Among them, cupidity caused him to urge Repeated demands on the pocket of Splurge, Till, wrecked in his fortune, that gentleman saw Inadequate aid in the practice of Draw, And took, as a means of augmenting his pelf, To the business of being a lord himself. His neat-fitting garments he wilfully shed And sacked himself strangely in checks instead; Denuded his chin, but retained at each ear A whisker that looked like a blasted career. He painted his neck an incarnadine hue Each morning and varnished it all that he knew. The moony monocular set in his eye Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye. His head was enroofed with a billycock hat, And his low-necked shoes were aduncous and flat. In speech he eschewed his American ways, Denying his nose to the use of his A's And dulling their edge till the delicate sense Of a babe at their temper could take no offence. His H's -- 'twas most inexpressibly sweet, The patter they made as they fell at his feet! Re-outfitted thus, Mr. Splurge without fear Began as Lord Splurge his recouping career. Alas, the Divinity shaping his end Entertained other views and decided to send His lordship in horror, despair and dismay From the land of the nobleman's natural prey. For, smit with his Old World ways, Lady Cadde Fell -- suffering Caesar! -- in love with her dad! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | A tourist in Florida is nearly burned alive by bigots simply because he is black. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tourist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.68% of the time. "Tourist" is used about 1,779 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.68% | 1,702 | 4,927 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.48% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.84% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,779 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Greece | Terna Tourist Technical and Maritime SA | Japan | Kinki Nippon Tourist Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tourist": sex tourist ♦ tourist agency ♦ tourist allowance ♦ tourist attraction ♦ tourist attractions ♦ tourist bus ♦ tourist class ♦ tourist country ♦ tourist court ♦ tourist fare ♦ tourist guide ♦ tourist industry ♦ tourist information ♦ tourist resort ♦ tourist services ♦ trqavel as a tourist ♦ winter tourist. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tourist": tourist-appeal, tourist-class ticket, tourist-conscious, tourist-free, tourist-generating, tourist-information, tourist-orientated, tourist-related, tourist-ridden, tourist-shooting, tourist-style, tourist-traffic, tourist-trap. | |
Ending with "tourist": budget-tourist, foreign-tourist, pro-tourist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tourist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | toeristeburo (tourist bureau). (various references) | |
Albanian | turistik, turist (rubberneck, tourer, tripper, visitor). (various references) | |
Arabic | سياحي (touring), السائح (tripper), الجوال (prowler, ranger, traveler, traveller, vagrant, wanderer, wayfarer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | туристически (excursion, touring), турист (excursionist, hiker, rubberneck, sightseer, tripper), за туризъм, излетник (excursionist, tripper, visitor). (various references) | |
Chinese | 游人 . (various references) | |
Croatian | turistièki. (various references) | |
Czech | turistický, turista (hiker, holiday maker, sightseer, traveler, traveller, tripper, visitor). (various references) | |
Danish | turist. (various references) | |
Dutch | toerist. (various references) | |
Esperanto | turisto. (various references) | |
Estonian | turisti. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ferðamaður, ferðafólk (passenger). (various references) | |
Farsi | گشتگر, سیاح (Explorer), جهانگردی کردن , جهانگرد (Rubberneck). (various references) | |
Finnish | matkailija (traveller). (various references) | |
French | touriste, touristique (touring, tourism). (various references) | |
Frisian | toerist, fakânsjegonger. (various references) | |
Galician | turista. (various references) | |
German | Tourist (sightseer, tripper), Touristin. (various references) | |
Greek | περιηγητήσ (traveler, traveller), τουριστικός, τουρίστασ, τουρίστας. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תיר (sightseer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | turista (excursionist, hiker, holiday maker, holiday-maker, rambler, sightseer, touristic, tripper), természetjáró (hiker). (various references) | |
Indonesian | turis. (various references) | |
Italian | turistico, turistiche, turista (sightseer, visitor), escursionista (excursionist, hiker, rambler, sightseer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遊覧客 (sightseer), 観光客 , 行楽客 (holidayma, vacationer, vacationist), ツーバイフォー工法 (double, tool, tooling, tour, touring, tweed, twin, two piece suit, wood frame construction), 漫遊客 (sightseer), 来遊者 (visitor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ツーリスト , まんゆうきゃく (sightseer), かんこうきゃく, こうらくきゃく (holidayma, vacationer, vacationist), らいゆうしゃ (visitor), ゆうらんきゃく (sightseer). (various references) | |
Korean | 관광객 (sightseer, Sight-seer). (various references) | |
Manx | turrysagh (holiday-maker, journeying; journey, tripper; tourism, visitor). (various references) | |
Maori | tuuruhi. (various references) | |
Norwegian | reisebyrå (tourist agency, travel agency). (various references) | |
Papiamen | turista. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ouristtay.(various references) | |
Polish | turysta. (various references) | |
Portuguese | turista (rubberneck, tripper). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | turísticos. (various references) | |
Romanian | turist (tripper). (various references) | |
Russian | туристский, турист туристический, турист (camper, excursionist, hosteler, sightseer, tourer). (various references) | |
Scottish | cuairtear (traveller, visitant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | turistički (vacationist), turista (tripper, vacationer, vacationist). (various references) | |
Spanish | turista (sightseer, visitor). (various references) | |
Swedish | turist (sightseer). (various references) | |
Tahitian | r‘tere. (various references) | |
Turkish | turist (dude, rubberneck, sightseer, tripper, vacationist). (various references) | |
Turkmen | turist (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | туристський, турист (camper, excursionist), бродяга (abraham-man, bush-whacker, drummer, gadabout, hobo, loafer, needy, nomad, prowler, rambler, runabout, runagate, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, waif). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhà du lịch, khách du lịch. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ka. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tourist": touristic, touristically, tourists, touristy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tourist": ecotourist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tourist": ecotourists. (additional references) | |
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"Tourist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hourist, Toireasa, Touiss, tourent, tourets, touris, tourista, touriste, touristed, tourrets, Tsouros, tucuri, Turista, turit, tzuriss. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tourist" (pronounced tuh"rust) |
| 5 | -uh" r u s t | poorest, purest, surest. |
| 4 | -r u s t | aquarist, barest, buttressed, dearest, deforest, direst, embarrassed, fairest, florist, forest, guitarist, interest, merest, nearest, noninterest, psychiatrist, rainforest, rarest, reforest, severest, terraced. |
| 3 | -u s t | agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, absolutist, accompanist, ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, activist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, deadliest, deepest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainiest, rapist, receptionist, reddest, refocused, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outsit, suitor, trouts, tutors. | |
-2 letters: riots, rotis, roust, routs, stour, stout, strut, sturt, tiros, toits, torsi, torts, torus, tours, touts, trios, trois, trots, trout, trust, tutor. | |
-3 letters: orts, ours, oust, outs, riot, roti, rots, rout, rust, ruts, sori, sort, sour, stir, suit, tiro, toit, tori, tors, tort, tost, tots, tour, tout, trio, trot. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: mistutor, outskirt, outstrip, quittors, tortious, tourists, touristy. | |
+2 letters: groutiest, mistutors, outskirts, outsprint, outstride, outstrips, outtricks, outwrites, printouts, proustite, reoutfits, stirabout, strikeout, strontium, toreutics, touristic, troutiest, tutorials, tutorship. | |
+3 letters: courtliest, drouthiest, ecotourist, fortitudes, fortuities, fortuitous, gratuitous, institutor, instructor, lustration, mistutored, multisport, multistory, mutilators, nutritions, nutritious, obituarist, outfitters, outsprints, outstaring, outstrides, pirouettes, prosciutti, prosciutto, prostitute, proustites, rusticator, saturation, staurolite, stimulator, stipulator, stirabouts, strikeouts, strontiums, struthious, tortiously, tortuosity, traitorous, tuberosity, tutorships, virtuosity. | |
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