Tourist city

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A tourist city is a place where the economy is mainly run by the tourism industry, and a large part of the city consists of areas dedicated to visitors. [1]

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Las Vegas, Nevada, an example of a tourist city in America

Some cities, such as New York City, Singapore, and London are not exclusively tourist cities, but do have tourist districts and are well known for their reputation as having a lot of international tourists. [2]

A tourist city differs from a regular city in the sense that it is trying to appeal to everyone who isn't native to that area. [3] This causes there to be a lot of advertising and attractions to try to draw people to the city.

To regulate tourism, tourist cities also establish regions designed specifically for visitors on vacation. [4] [5] One example of this would be Cancún and its isolated Hotel Zone.

Examples of notable tourist cities

Entries are listed in the form of "name of city (country name)." Data from Euromonitor. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Judd, Dennis R. (2003). "Building the Tourist City: Editor's Introduction". The Infrastructure of Play: Building the Tourist City. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315699585-1 (inactive October 5, 2025). ISBN   9781315699585.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of October 2025 (link)
  2. ↑ Simpson, Tim (March 19, 2015). "Tourist utopias: biopolitics and the genealogy of the post-world tourist city". Current Issues in Tourism. 19 (1): 27–59. doi:10.1080/13683500.2015.1005579.
  3. ↑ Sommer, Christoph (December 14, 2017). "Seeing like a tourist city: how administrative constructions of conflictive urban tourism shape its future". Journal of Tourism Futures. 3 (2): 157–170. doi:10.1108/JTF-07-2017-0037 – via Emerald Group Publishing.
  4. ↑ Lee, Pam; Hunter, William Cannon; Chung, Namho (May 12, 2020). "Smart Tourism City: Developments and Transformations". Sustainability. 12 (10): 3958. Bibcode:2020Sust...12.3958L. doi: 10.3390/su12103958 .
  5. ↑ Singh, Uttam (December 2022). "The co-production of space in a tourist city: A case of Dharamshala". Cities. 131 103998. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2022.103998 – via ScienceDirect.
  6. ↑ "Top 100 City Destinations 2018 | Euromonitor". Euromonitor International. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
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