tourist center

Example Sentences

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While authorities were hard at work restoring order in Acapulco’s tourist center — cutting through trees in front of high-rise hotels and restoring power — the city’s poorest, like Sandova,l said they felt abandoned.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2023

Downtown Portland, once a cultural and tourist center, is now rife with homeless tents, smashed windows, graffiti, trash and boarded-up businesses, the newspaper reported.

From Fox News • May 15, 2021

The town is a low-key tourist center about 25 miles east of the U.S. air base at Ramstein.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2016

A few minutes from the tourist center of the city, the streets are desolate, the stores boarded up; farther out, much of Athens is grim and poor.

From New York Times • May 20, 2015

Normally a tourist center, the town now was practically deserted, and the Parkers had chosen it because it was within easy driving distance of Riverview.

From Voice from the Cave by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)