class tourism

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The practice by members of the middle class of visiting working class areas or slums out of curiosity or for entertainment.

    不可数

    2002, R. M. Vaughan, interview transcribed in Michelle Berry and Natalee Caple (editors), The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers, Anchor Canada, p. 439, I despise those books. They’re nothing but the worst sort of class tourism. The idea that Atlantic Canadians are the colourful peasantry of the nation enrages me.

  2. 2.

    Tourism catering to a wealthy elite (contrasted with mass tourism).

    不可数

    1971, Mary McCarthy, Birds of America, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, “A Sibylline Interlude,” p. 284, I feared you might be one of those snobs who distinguish between class tourism and mass tourism.