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TOURISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The business of providing services to tourists
Example:
Tourism is a major business in Bermuda
Synonyms:
tourism; touristry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tourism" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tourism"):
ecotourism (tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature)
Derivation:
tourist (someone who travels for pleasure)
