Examples of tourist trap in a Sentence
The street market is a tourist trap that mostly sells cheap souvenirs.
That hotel is just a tourist trap.
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Instead of randomly flinging yourself into tourist traps, do some research ahead of time.
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Tonia Ryan, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Gustavo Arellano: Disneyland has already turned my hometown into a giant tourist trap.
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
Pawleys Island, South Carolina This slender barrier island about 70 miles northeast of Charleston isn’t a tourist trap, and that’s how locals like it.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025
The mix of South Street Seaport tourist traps, happy-hour bars, fast-casual chains, food halls, four-star restaurants, ultra high-end stores, luxury gyms, discount outlets, 19th-century hole-in-the-walls, and, as of this week, a French department store, is, in fact, very much New York.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 7 Mar. 2025
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Tonia Ryan, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Gustavo Arellano: Disneyland has already turned my hometown into a giant tourist trap.
—Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
Pawleys Island, South Carolina This slender barrier island about 70 miles northeast of Charleston isn’t a tourist trap, and that’s how locals like it.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025
The mix of South Street Seaport tourist traps, happy-hour bars, fast-casual chains, food halls, four-star restaurants, ultra high-end stores, luxury gyms, discount outlets, 19th-century hole-in-the-walls, and, as of this week, a French department store, is, in fact, very much New York.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Tourist trap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tourist%20trap. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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