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tourism

noun as in travel for pleasure

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Crime, which is at a 30-year low, is declining even more — but then, so is tourism.

From Salon

The calamities in the past two years, including a fatal magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2024, have devastated the county's tourism industry, Ms Yang said.

From BBC

More than 80 buffaloes have been killed after they trampled over each other and drowned in a river, Namibia's environment and tourism department has said.

From BBC

Two weeks ago social entrepreneur Kevin Green refused to accept the trophy on behalf of Port Glasgow, denouncing it as "poverty tourism" which failed to reflect the Inverclyde town's "punching up, not punching down" spirit.

From BBC

Closing the bridge for more than two years would require an alternative route for cargo trucks traveling to and from the port, and would likely affect tourism across San Pedro and Long Beach.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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