to travel especially to visit the scene of a tragedy or disaster.
Some take the opportunity to do some grief-tourism with the occasion of the latest floods...
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A kinder and friendlier way of saying trespassing.
Bro it's not trespassing,it's just hood tourism.
Going into a combat zone for only a few hours just to get a combat patch.
Yeah the officer has a combat patch. But he/she only got it through combat tourism. They didn't earn it.
When straight girls go to a lesbian bar...
Fancy a spot of fanny tourism tonight?
Making special trips to visit shut-down insane asylums. Can be done in real life or in virtual life. Virtual Asylum Tourism allows a wider range of travel and prevents risk from hazards like asbestos, arrest, and collapsing stairways, but it lacks the sickening real-life terror that follows exposure to these places. A variant is collecting books featuring images of asylums, but this is not quite as bent as purchasing airplane tickets.
*Hey, sis, I need to get away from it all.
*Well, let's head up to Danvers State before they bulldoze the Kirkbride and build some unique luxury condos! Asylum Tourism always cheers you up!
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(n.) counter-tourism refers to offensive measures taken to deter, prevent and respond to tourism.
Before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics began all the manhole covers in and around the city were welded open as a counter-tourism measure.
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the act of driving around a new or familiar place as oppose to walking, hence seeing and enjoying more of the area in a short space of time from the comfort of your own car.
girl: lets walk round the new forest
guy: car tourism is the way forward