touristry

1. 1.

   the business of providing services to tourists

   “Tourism is a major business in Bermuda”

   Synonymstourism

   Broadercommercial enterprise

   Narrowerecotourism

Other forms of touristry

plural

touristries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about touristry

What does touristry mean?

touristry means "the business of providing services to tourists".

How many syllables are in touristry?

touristry has 3 syllables: tou-ri-stry. The stress falls on "tou".

What is another word for touristry?

Close synonyms include tourism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is touristry a common word?

touristry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.