An area or place deliberately designed or built to bring in tourists and the associated involved industries. Can also be a place that was ‘quietly popular’ to a niche market of
people before being heavily marketed by big business to bring in droves of
people/(tourists) and
money.
A word best used in a past-tense or ‘after the horse has bolted’ situation.
“
Wow, they went all-out to overdo the tourism in Byron
Bay. It has been heavily touristified, hasn’
t it?!”