touristicadj.
/tʊəˈrɪstɪk/, /tɔːˈrɪstɪk/, U.S. /tʊˈrɪstɪk/ Of or pertaining to tourists or touring.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > holiday-making or tourism > [adjective] > characterized by tourists
touristic1848
touristical1863
touristy1906
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 373 The touristic hordes, who paddled up and down the well-known old banks.
1865 Ld. Strangford in Lett. & Papers (1878) 98 There is no such thing as a record of touristic journeying in Crete.
1894 Athenæum 26 May 672 It has importance from another than the touristic point of view.
Derivatives
touˈristical adj. in same sense.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > holiday-making or tourism > [adjective] > characterized by tourists
touristic1848
touristical1863
touristy1906
1863 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 98 A long quiet walk, only one touristical carriage all the way.
1893 Sat. Rev. 18 Feb. 189/3 His discursive record is chiefly ‘touristical’.
touˈristically adv. from the point of view of a tourist; as regards tourists or tourism.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [adverb] > with regard to tourism or tourists
touristically1928
1928 Sunday Disp. 16 Dec. 4/2 Asked to show a young French boy of fifteen the ‘sights’ of London... But he had one ambition, touristically, and one only.
1959 Encounter May 30/2 The girls..go anywhere, do anything sexually or touristically interesting. County Dublin, Positano, Ibiza, Tangier.
1971 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 14/4 Replicas of the castle could also be erected not only in London but at touristically under-privileged places like Leeds and Merthyr Tydfil.
1983 Which? Nov. 515/1 The qualities I look for in a country house hotel—a tranquil location in a touristically rewarding area, [etc.].
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