English
Etymology
From tour + -ism.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔːɹɪzəm/, /ˈtʊəɹɪzəm/
Noun
tourism (usually uncountable, plural tourisms)
- The act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.
Mass tourism damaged the beach.
2025 November 26, Fang Yongrui (pseudonym), “Tourism as Treason: Pastor Sun Chenghao Sentenced to Four and a Half Years for a Trip”, in Bitter Winter[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2025:The state treats Jeju tourism as ideological contraband. […] By criminalizing tourism, the state criminalizes faith.
- The industry in which such travels and sightseeing are organized.
Tourism brings a lot of tax revenue to the area.
- (figurative) The act of visiting another region or jurisdiction for a particular purpose.
libel tourism; suicide tourism; sex tourism
Derived terms
Descendants
- → French: tourisme (see there for further descendants)
Translations
the act of travelling or sightseeing
- Afrikaans: toerisme
- Albanian: turizm m
- Arabic: سِيَّاحَة f (siyyāḥa)
- Egyptian Arabic: سياحة f (seyāḥa)
- Aragonese: torismo
- Armenian: տուրիզմ (hy) (turizm), զբոսաշրջություն (hy) (zbosašrǰutʻyun)
- Assamese: পৰ্যটন (porzoton)
- Asturian: turismu m
- Azerbaijani: turizm, səyahət (az)
- Basque: turismo (eu)
- Belarusian: туры́зм m (turýzm)
- Bengali: পর্যটন (bn) (porjoṭon)
- Bulgarian: тури́зъм (bg) m (turízǎm)
- Carpathian Rusyn: тури́стика f (turýstyka)
- Catalan: turisme (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 旅遊 / 旅游 (leoi5 jau4), 游覽 / 游览 (jau4 laam5), 旅行 (leoi5 hang4), 觀光 / 观光 (gun1 gwong1)
- Mandarin: 旅遊 / 旅游 (zh) (lǚyóu), 游覽 / 游览 (yóulǎn), 旅行 (zh) (lǚxíng), 觀光 / 观光 (zh) (guānguāng)
- Czech: turistika (cs) f, turismus m
- Danish: turisme c
- Dutch: toerisme (nl) n
- Esperanto: turismo (eo)
- Estonian: turism
- Finnish: matkailu (fi), turismi (fi)
- French: tourisme (fr) m
- Galician: turismo (gl) m
- Georgian: ტურიზმი (ṭurizmi)
- German: Tourismus (de) m
- Greek: τουρισμός (el) m (tourismós)
- Hebrew: תַּיָּרוּת / תיירות (he) (tayarút)
- Hindi: पर्यटन (hi) m (paryaṭan), देशाटन (hi) m (deśāṭan), टूरिज़्म m (ṭūrizma), सियाहत (hi) f (siyāhat)
- Hungarian: turizmus (hu)
- Icelandic: ferðamennska (is) f
- Ido: turismo (io)
- Indonesian: pariwisata (id)
- Irish: turasóireacht f
- Italian: turismo (it) m
- Japanese: 観光 (ja) (かんこう, kankō), 旅行 (ja) (りょこう, ryokō)
- Kazakh: туризм (turizm), саяхат (saäxat)
- Khmer: ទេសចរណ៍ (teihsaʼcɑɑ)
- Korean: 관광(觀光) (ko) (gwan'gwang)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: geştûguzarî (ku), turîzm (ku)
- Kyrgyz: туризм (ky) (turizm), саякат (ky) (sayakat)
- Lao: ການທ່ອງທ່ຽວ (lo) (kān thǭng thiāu)
- Latvian: tūrisms m
- Lithuanian: turizmas m
- Luxembourgish: Tourismus
- Macedonian: тури́зам m (turízam)
- Malay: pelancongan (ms)
- Malayalam: വിനോദസഞ്ചാരം (ml) (vinōdasañcāraṁ), ടൂറിസം (ml) (ṭūṟisaṁ)
- Marathi: पर्यटन n (paryaṭan)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: жуулчлал (mn) (žuulčlal)
- Norwegian: turisme
- Bokmål: turisme m
- Nynorsk: turisme m
- Occitan: torisme (oc) m
- Pashto: سياحت (ps) m (sayāhat), ټوريزم m (ṭorizǝm)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: گَرْدِشْگَری (fa) (gardešgari), جَهانْگَرْدی (fa) (jahângardi), سِیاحَت (fa) (siyâhat)
- Polish: turystyka (pl) f
- Portuguese: turismo (pt) m
- Romanian: turism (ro) n
- Russian: тури́зм (ru) m (turízm)
- Sanskrit: पर्यटन (sa) (paryaṭana), पर्यटनम् (sa) m (paryaṭanam)
- Sardinian: turismu
- Scots: tourism
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: турѝзам m
- Latin: turìzam (sh) m
- Sinhalese: සංචාරක (saṁcāraka)
- Slovak: turistika f, turizmus m
- Slovene: turizem (sl) m
- Spanish: turismo (es) m
- Swedish: turism (sv) c
- Tagalog: turismo
- Tajik: ҷаҳонгардӣ (jahongardi), саёҳат (sayohat), сайёҳат (sayyohat), туризм (tg) (turizm)
- Thai: การท่องเที่ยว (th) (gaan-tɔ̂ng-tîao)
- Turkish: turizm (tr), seyahat (tr)
- Turkmen: syýahatçylyk, turizm, syýahat
- Ukrainian: тури́зм m (turýzm)
- Urdu: سِیاحَت f (siyāhat), ٹُورِزْم m (ṭūrizm)
- Uyghur: ساياھەچىلىك (sayahechilik), ساياھەت (ug) (sayahet)
- Uzbek: turizm (uz), sayohat (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự du lịch (vi), du lịch (vi), lữ hành (vi)
- Yiddish: טוריזם (turizm)
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collectively, the tourists visiting a place or landmark
- Basque: turismo (eu)
- Chinese:
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- Finnish: turismi (fi), turistit pl
- German: Fremdenverkehr (de) m, Reiseverkehr m
- Italian: turismo (it) m
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- Spanish: turismo (es) m
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act of visiting for a purpose
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 旅遊 / 旅游 (zh) (lǚyóu), 游覽 / 游览 (yóulǎn), 旅行 (zh) (lǚxíng), 觀光 / 观光 (zh) (guānguāng)
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- Finnish: turismi (fi)
- German: -tourismus (de) m
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