tourist trap

English

Alternative forms

• tourist-trap

Noun

tourist trap (plural tourist traps)

1. (derogatory) An establishment, such as a shop or display, where tourists are encouraged to spend money on goods or services not necessarily of good value.
   • 1900, Grant Allen, chapter 1, in Linnet‎^[1]:

     As for Will Deverill, less critical of Nature’s handicraft, he found the inns over-civilised; the Post and the Bräu were too fine for his taste: they had come thus far in search of solitude and Alpine wilds, and they lighted instead on a sort of miniature Grindelwald, with half-a-dozen inns, a respectable café, experienced (or in other words extortionate) guides, and a regular tourist-trap for the sale of chamois-horns and carved models of châlets.

   • 1911, Charles Neville Buck, chapter XX, in The Lighted Match‎^[2]:

     For fifteen minutes they walked morosely and in silence through the steep streets where the shops are tourist-traps, alluringly baited with corals and trinkets.

Derived terms

• tourist-trappy

 

Translations

establishment encouraging tourists to spend money

• Dutch: toeristenval (nl) m
• Finnish: turistipyydys, turistirysä (fi)
• French: attrape-touriste m, piège à touristes m
• German: Touristenfalle (de) f
• Hungarian: turistacsapda
• Polish: sklep z kiczem dla turystów m
• Swedish: turistfälla c
• Turkish: turist kapanı, turist tuzağı

See also

• sucker trap

Further reading

• tourist trap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia