[f. TOUR sb. + -IST.] One who makes a tour or tours; esp. one who does this for recreation; one who travels for pleasure or culture, visiting a number of places for their objects of interest, scenery, or the like.
c. 1800. Pegge, Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1814), 313. A Traveller is now-a-days called a Tour-ist.
1803. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1850), 34. An agricultural tourist will faithfully detail the average crop per acre.
1824. Scott, St. Ronan’s, i. It provoked the pencil of every passing tourist.
1855. H. Spencer, Princ. Psychol., § 66. 246. The Swiss tourist whose inquiries respecting distances are answered in ‘stunden,’ or hours.
1873. Smiles, Huguenots Fr., III. i. (1881), 383. Dauphiny … lying completely out of the track of ordinary tourists.
b. attrib. and Comb., as tourist agency, country, rendezvous, ticket; tourist-crammed, -haunted, -laden, -mobbed, -ridden, -trodden adjs.; tourist-car, a railway carriage with special accommodation for tourists.
1867. J. G. Fennell (title), The Rail and the Rod; or, Tourist-Angler’s Guide to Waters and Quarters around London.
1881. I. E. B. Cox (title), The Angler’s Diary and Tourist Fisherman’s Gazetteer of the Rivers and Lakes of the World.
1887. Ruskin, Præterita, II. 379. Ruin was inevitable in the valley after it became a tourist rendezvous.
1892. Pall Mall G., 16 July, 2/1. A tourist country like Switzerland.
1895. P. Hemingway, Out of Egypt, I. ii. 22. It was no good applying to the hotels or tourist agencies.
1897. Mrs. E. L. Voynich, Gadfly, ii. The glaring white streets and dusty, tourist-crammed promenades.
1898. Edin. Rev., Oct., 521. The beautiful but now … hackneyed and tourist-mobbed route to Chamonix.
1905. E. Candler, Unveiling of Lhasa, xiii. 242. Just as one is dragged into a church in some tourist-ridden land.
1908. Westm. Gaz., 9 May, 3/1. His [ticket] had the tourist-car ticket appended as a portion of the fare.
Hence (nonce-wds.) Touristdom, the realm or collective body of tourists; Touristing, the practice or habit of touring; Touristry = touristdom or touristing; Touristship, the quality or position of a tourist; Touristy a., colloq. characteristic of the tourist.
1888. Pall Mall G., 28 Aug., 13/2.
| Known of men who in the old time lodged in hollows of the rocks, | |
| Ere those Circe’s sties, the Club-huts, harboured *touristdom in flocks. |
1883. A. Stewart, Nether Lochaber, xxxviii. 233. Never before were all the conveniences for *‘touristing’ so perfect.
1878. Stevenson, Inland Voy., 32. All the ruck and rabble of British *touristry. Ibid. (1883), Silverado Sq., 27. It was a pure little isle of touristry among these solitary hills.
1894. Speaker, 7 April, 390/2. A Venice vulgarised by Cook’s touristry.
1849. Fraser’s Mag., XL. 375. He was rather a tourist than a traveller, and this *touristship was the worse for his scientific crotchets.
1906. Athenæum, 8 Sept., 278/3. The letterpress … is … slight, sketchy, *‘touristy,’ but genial.
