tourist trap

Example Sentences

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The Maple Leaf Place looks like a typical tourist trap, with loads of souvenirs as soon as you walk in.

From Salon

Well, I wouldn’t like living near a tourist trap either.”

From Los Angeles Times

Pike Place Market is a tourist trap, but a stop at Piroshky Piroshky makes the crowds worth it.

From Los Angeles Times

Shawna had success two years ago when her socially-minded tracks went viral, but she’s lost momentum and is now working as a hotel concierge in a beachside tourist trap.

From Los Angeles Times

Things improve a bit once the action shifts to New Asgard, the bucolic Norwegian town/tourist trap where Thor’s fellow surviving Asgardians have relocated, but even here, the action bogs down in look-at-who-we-got cameos and product placements that are sometimes disguised as jokes about product placements.

From Los Angeles Times