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The practice by members of the middle class of visiting working class areas or slums out of curiosity or for entertainment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 2002, R. M. Vaughan, interview transcribed in Michelle Berry and Natalee Caple (editors), The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers, Anchor Canada, p. 439, I despise those books. They’re nothing but the worst sort of class tourism. The idea that Atlantic Canadians are the colourful peasantry of the nation enrages me.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slumming
Antonyms: none provided
Tourism catering to a wealthy elite (contrasted with mass tourism).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1971, Mary McCarthy, Birds of America, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, “A Sibylline Interlude,” p. 284, I feared you might be one of those snobs who distinguish between class tourism and mass tourism.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: high-class tourism, luxury tourism
Antonyms: none provided
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