heritage tourism
noun [mass noun]
The practice of travelling abroad to places of historical or cultural interest: a destination for heritage tourism...
- Seventy-seven buildings have been rehabilitated or restored and the city has nurtured a growing heritage tourism industry.
- There has been a broader growth of heritage tourism, of which ghost tours are a relatively small part.
- The present museum is part of a project to reinvent the town as a heritage tourism site.
Derivatives
heritage tourist
- Heritage tourists find that these cities do not disappoint their expectations.
- Some groups of cultural heritage tourists choose this spot for pouring libations to ancestors.
- Heritage tourists "tend to visit more places, stay longer and spend more money than other visitors".