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# tourism

«tourism» in Mova's school dictionary: **the business of people travelling to places for holidays…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (tourism — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tourism is the business of people travelling to places for holidays and of providing them with hotels, trips and things to see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourism/#m1)

2) It also means the activity of visiting places as a tourist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourism/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons it is studied as an industry: how it brings money and jobs but can also cause crowding, litter and pollution. Phrases: the tourism industry, mass tourism, eco-tourism, sustainable tourism.

### examples

- Tourism brings a lot of money to seaside towns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourism/#x1)
- New Zealand is famous for adventure tourism like bungee jumping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourism/#x2)
- Too much tourism can damage beaches and coral reefs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourism/#x3)
- Eco-tourism tries to protect nature while people visit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourism/#x4)
- The pandemic hit tourism very hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourism/#x5)
- My uncle works in tourism as a tour guide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourism/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: no plural. Person: tourist; adjective: touristy (informal, often negative). Spelling: tour + ism.

### In the corpora

- [Countries also trade services, such as banking, insurance, software, films and tourism, not only goods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tourism» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tourism/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.