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A stranger paying to feel briefly at home somewhere that wishes they'd leave faster.
means A person who travels to a place for pleasure or sightseeing, typically for a short stay.
from From the French 'tour' — a turn, a circuit, a going-around — which traces back through Old French to the Latin 'tornus,' a lathe or turning-tool (itself borrowed from Greek 'tornos'). The idea is of a journey that loops out and circles home again, a 'tour.' English fitted the agent-suffix '-ist' onto it around the late 18th century, just as leisure travel was becoming a fashionable circuit for those with money to spend — the original 'tourist' being someone making the rounds, not the one-way wanderer.
- word origin
- From 'tour,' a circle — you always end up back home
- venice tax
- Day-trippers now pay an entry fee to exist there
- camera tell
- Locals never photograph the buildings they walk past daily
- economic giant
- Tourism rivals oil as a global trade sector
- paris syndrome
- A real condition when the city disappoints visitors badly
statue of liberty — 8.5 million visitors annually to new york's iconic monument
eiffel tower — 6.9 million visitors per year in paris, france
great wall of china — 10 million visitors yearly across multiple provinces
taj mahal — 7-8 million annual visitors to agra, india