Tourist city
A tourist city is a place where a substantial share of economic activity is attributable to tourism-related consumption, and a large part of the city consists of areas dedicated to visitors.[1]
Some cities, such as New York City, Singapore, London, Paris are not exclusively tourist cities, but do have tourist districts or historical quarters 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 is not 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
[edit]Entries are listed in the form of "name of city (country name)." Data from Euromonitor.[6]
- Macao (China)
- Dubai (UAE)
- Antalya (Turkey)
- Phuket (Thailand)
- Pattaya (Thailand)
- Mecca (Saudi Arabia)
- Medina (Saudi Arabia)
- Agra (India)
- Denpasar, known under Bali (Indonesia)
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Las Vegas (United States)
- Cancun (Mexico)
- Orlando (United States)
- Venice (Italy)
- Hạ Long (Vietnam)
- Zhuhai (China)
- Hurghada (Egypt)
- Punta Cana (Dominican Republic)
- Muğla (Turkey)
See also
[edit]- List of cities by international visitors - cities ranked by number of visitors in a year
- Honeypot (tourism)
- Resort town
References
[edit]- ↑ Judd, Dennis R. (2015). "Building the Tourist City: Editor's Introduction". The Infrastructure of Play: Building the Tourist City. pp. 3–16. doi:10.4324/9781315699585. ISBN 978-1-315-69958-5.
- ↑ Simpson, Tim (January 2, 2016). "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.
- ↑ Sommer, Christoph; Helbrecht, Ilse (December 15, 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Singh, Uttam; Upadhyay, Surya Prakash; Jha, Isha (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.
- ↑ "Top 100 City Destinations 2018 | Euromonitor". Euromonitor International. Retrieved September 30, 2025.
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