tourist

See also: Tourist

English

Tourists taking photographs of Primošten, Croatia

Etymology

From tour +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʊəɹɪst/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtʊɹ.ɪst/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.ɪst/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɹ.ɪst/

Noun

tourist (plural tourists)

1. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. [from 1770s]
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

2. (derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
3. (sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• touristic
• tourist office

• tourist trap
• touristy

Related terms

• tour
• tour guide
• tourism
• Grand Tour

Translations

someone who travels for pleasure

• Albanian: turist (sq) m
• Amharic: ቱሪስት (turist)
• Arabic: سَائِح m (sāʔiḥ), سُوَّاح m pl (suwwāḥ)

  Egyptian Arabic: سايح m (sāyiḥ)

• Armenian: զբոսաշրջիկ (hy) (zbosašrǰik), տուրիստ (hy) (turist)
• Asturian: turista m or f
• Azerbaijani: turist (az), səyyah (az), səyahətçi
• Belarusian: туры́ст m (turýst), туры́стка f (turýstka)
• Bengali: পর্যটক (porjoṭok)
• Burmese: ကမ္ဘာလှည့်ခရီးသည် (my) (kambhahlany.hka.ri:sany), ခရီးသည် (my) (hka.ri:sany), တူးရစ် (tu:rac), တိုရစ် (tuirac)
• Catalan: turista (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旅游者 (zh) (lǚyóuzhě), 游客 (zh) (yóukè), 游人 (zh) (yóurén), 觀光客／观光客 (zh) (guānguāngkè), 观光客 (zh) (guānguāngkè)

• Czech: turista (cs) m
• Danish: turist (da)
• Dutch: toerist (nl) m, toeriste (nl) f
• Estonian: turist
• Finnish: turisti (fi), matkailija (fi)
• French: touriste (fr) m or f
• Galician: turista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: ტურისტი (ṭurisṭi)
• German: Tourist (de) m, Touristin (de) f, Vergnügungsreisender m, Vergnügungsreisende f, Reisender (de) m, Reisende (de) f
• Greek: τουρίστας (el) m (tourístas)
• Hebrew: תייר \ תַיָר m (tayár)
• Hindi: पर्यटक (hi) m (paryaṭak), टूरिस्ट m (ṭūrisṭ)
• Hungarian: turista (hu)
• Icelandic: ferðamaður m
• Ido: turisto (io)
• Indonesian: turis (id)
• Irish: turasóir m, cuairteoir m, fámaire m
• Italian: turista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 旅行者 (ja) (りょこうしゃ, ryokōsha), 観光客 (かんこうきゃく, kankōkyaku), ツーリスト (tsūrisuto)
• Kazakh: турист (kk) (turist), саяхатшы (saäxatşy)
• Khmer: អ្នកទេសចរ (nĕək teihsaʼcɑɑ), ទេសចរ (teihsaʼcɑɑ)
• Korean: 관광객 (ko) (gwan'gwanggaek), 여행자 (ko) (yeohaengja)
• Kyrgyz: турист (ky) (turist), саякатчы (ky) (sayakatcı)
• Lao: ນັກທ່ອງທ່ຽວ (nak thǭng thiāu)
• Latvian: tūrists m, tūriste f
• Lithuanian: turistas (lt) m, turistė f, keliautojas m, keliautoja f
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• Luhya: omtali
• Macedonian: турист m (turist)
• Malay: pelancong
• Maori: tūruhi
• Mongolian: жуулчин (mn) (žuulčin)
• Norman: touriste m or f
• Norwegian: turist

  Bokmål: turist m

• Occitan: torista m or f
• Pashto: سياح m (sayāh), ټوريسټ m (ṭorísṭ)
• Persian: توریست (fa) (turist), سیاح (fa) (sayyâh)
• Polish: turysta (pl) m, turystka (pl) f
• Portuguese: turista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: turist (ro) m, turiști (ro) m pl, turistă (ro) f
• Russian: тури́ст (ru) m (turíst), тури́стка (ru) f (turístka), путеше́ственник (ru) m (putešéstvennik), путеше́ственница (ru) f (putešéstvennica)
• Rwanda-Rundi: ingezi
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-turais m or f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: турист m

  Roman: turist (sh) m

• Sinhalese: සංචාරක (saṁcāraka)
• Slovak: turista m
• Slovene: turist (sl) m, turistka f
• Spanish: turista (es) m or f
• Swahili: mtalii (sw)
• Swedish: turist (sv) c
• Tagalog: turista (tl)
• Tajik: сайёҳ (tg) (sayyoh)
• Thai: นักท่องเที่ยว (nák-tɔ̂ng-tîao)
• Tibetan: ཡུལ་སྐོར་བ (yul skor ba)
• Turkish: turist (tr), gezgin (tr), gezici (tr), gezmen (tr), seyyah (tr)
• Turkmen: turist, syýahatçy
• Ukrainian: тури́ст m (turýst), тури́стка f (turýstka)
• Urdu: سیاح (ur) m (sayyāh), ٹورسٹ (ur) m (ṭūrisṭ)
• Uyghur: ساياھەتچى (ug) (sayahetchi)
• Uzbek: turist (uz), sayyoh (uz), sayohatchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: khách du lịch
• Volapük: (♂♀) töran (vo), (♂) hitöran, (♀) jitöran
• Yiddish: טוריסט m (turist)

Further reading

• Tourism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia