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Definition of Tourism
(noun) Traveling for adventure, curiosity, or pleasure.
Example of Tourism
- Traveling to Australia for a vacation.
Tourism Pronunciation
Syllabification: tour·ism
Audio Pronunciation
Phonetic Spelling
- American English – /tUR-iz-uhm/
- British English – /tUUH-riz-uhm/
International Phonetic Alphabet
- American English – /ˈtʊˌrɪzəm/
- British English – /ˈtɔːrɪz(ə)m/
Usage Notes
Additional Information
- Word origin of “tourism” – Online Etymology Dictionary: etymonline.com
- Kendall, Gavin, Ian Woodward, and Zlatko Skrbiš. 2009. The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization, Identity, Culture and Government. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Martell, Luke. 2010. The Sociology of Globalization. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
- Nash, Kate. 2010. Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics, and Power. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- Robertson, Roland, and Kathleen E. White, eds. 2003. Globalization: Critical Concepts in Sociology. London: Routledge.
- Sassen, Saskia. 2007. A Sociology of Globalization. New York: Norton.
- Savage, Michael, Gaynor Bagnall, and Brian Longhurst. 2005. Globalization and Belonging. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Related Terms
- cultural diffusion
- global perspective
- globalization
- material culture
- nonmaterial culture
- world-systems
Cite the Definition of Tourism
ASA – American Sociological Association (5th edition)
Bell, Kenton, ed. 2014. “tourism.” In Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Retrieved February 9, 2025 (https://sociologydictionary.org/tourism/).
APA – American Psychological Association (6th edition)
tourism. (2014). In K. Bell (Ed.), Open education sociology dictionary. Retrieved from https://sociologydictionary.org/tourism/
Chicago/Turabian: Author-Date – Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition)
Bell, Kenton, ed. 2014. “tourism.” In Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Accessed February 9, 2025. https://sociologydictionary.org/tourism/.
MLA – Modern Language Association (7th edition)
“tourism.” Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Ed. Kenton Bell. 2014. Web. 9 Feb. 2025. <https://sociologydictionary.org/tourism/>.