tourist industry
1tourist industry — branch that deals with tourism in a country, hotel and vacation industry, development of tourist attractions …
2tourist — tour‧ist [ˈtʊərst ǁ ˈtʊr ] noun [countable] TRAVEL someone who travels to visit a place for pleasure or a holiday: • About 40,000 Americans go there each year, mostly for business but some as tourists. • The city relies on its tourist industry… …
3industry — [in′dəs trē] n. pl. industries [LME < MFr industrie < L industria < industrius, active, industrious < * indo struus < OL endo (> L in) + struere, to pile up, arrange: see STREW] 1. Obs. a) skill or cleverness b) the application… …
4Tourist landscape — A tourist landscape can be described as constructed through a variety of symbolic and material transformations of an original physical and/or socioeconomic landscape in order to serve the interests of tourists and the tourist industry. Since the… …
5industry — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ booming, growing, thriving ▪ one of the fastest growing industries in the world ▪ important, key, major ▪ …
6industry — in|dus|try W1S3 [ˈındəstri] n plural industries [Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: industrie skill, work involving skill , from Latin industria willingness to work hard ] 1.) [U] a) the large scale production of goods or of substances such… …
7industry — /in deuh stree/, n., pl. industries for 1, 2, 7. 1. the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry. 2. any general… …
8tourist — tour|ist W3 [ˈtuərıst US ˈtur ] n someone who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure →↑traveller ▪ Cambridge is always full of tourists in the summer. ▪ The Statue of Liberty is a major tourist attraction . ▪ What effect will this have on …
9industry — [[t]ɪ̱ndəstri[/t]] ♦ industries 1) N UNCOUNT Industry is the work and processes involved in collecting raw materials, and making them into products in factories. British industry suffers through insufficient investment in research. ...in… …
10industry — noun 1 (U) the production of goods, especially in factories: a decline in manufacturing industry | heavy industry (=the production of large goods such as aircraft, cars etc) | light industry (=the production of small goods) 2 (singular) the… …
