touristscape

English

Etymology

From tourist +‎ -scape.

Noun

touristscape (plural touristscapes)

1. Any and all things of interest to a tourist, including attractions, cultural sites, restaurants and hotels, souvenir shops, tourist districts.
   • 1999, Jane Desmond, “Let's Lu'au”, in Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World‎^[1] (Business), University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 14:

     Markers of Hawaiian-ness customize the urban "touristscape" in large and small ways.

   • 2004, Peter E. Murphy, Ann E. Murphy, “Tourism Leadership”, in Strategic Management for Tourism Communities‎^[2] (Business), Channel View Publications, →ISBN, page 146:

     …they shape a community's touristscape, scale and impacts ...

   • 2011, Michelle M. Metro-Roland, “Landscape and Tourism”, in Tourists, Signs and the City: The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape‎^[3] (Business), Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 38:

     … that is the space between the everyday of the cityscape and the festive nature of the touristscape which is the tourist prosaic.

Related terms

• tourscape