[f. TOUR sb. + -ISM.] The theory and practice of touring; travelling for pleasure. Usually depreciatory.
1811. Sporting Mag., XXXVIII. 251. Sublime Cockey Tourism.
1843. Thackeray, Irish Sk-bk., xvii. No doubt, ere long … the rush of London tourism will come this way [West of Ireland].
1872. Jerningham, trans. Hübner’s Sixtus the Fifth, I. vi. I. 87. Tourism was born in the seventeenth century, and Englishmen were the first to practise it.
1903. C. Whibley, Thackeray, iii. 44. The literature of ‘tourism’ is ever increasing.
