Actively seeking out tours of large industrial facilities for the pure enjoyment of large, expensive, loud machinery and structures. Examples include ship engine rooms, factories, mines, construction sites, and power plants that the general public does not necessarily see. These locations usually require personal protective equipment like hard hats, safety glasses and ear plugs.
by FiatLukes November 12, 2009
Black pink add new member or throw out member? I hate Ms Hema you should get out from the travel and tourism shop!
Black pink add new member or throw out member? I hate Ms Hema you should get out from the travel and tourism shop!
by Taenun August 12, 2022
A type of tourism in which people will visit somewhere specifically because they believe that it is endangered in some way or another. For example, people visit Antarctica or rainforests and other untouched natural wildernesses as they believe that it will be destroyed due to climate change and direct human action in the near future and want to visit it whilst they still can. People might also do the same for man-made areas before they are supposedly torn down or otherwise closed or repurposed.
Those who visit Antarctica or glaciers solely because they know it is melting and will soon disappear are engaging in pessimistic tourism.
by Gentleman of Rhubarb January 2, 2023
Tourism based on spending excessive amounts of money and taking extreme risk at the expense of the public with the only reward is the activity’s exclusivity of the less monied population.
The money spent on civilian space travel shows that ego-tourism dollars can reach the equivalent of the economy of a small less industrialized nation.
by Festus Izuli July 1, 2023
being a tourist or going on heaps of tours, or seeing a bunch of unnecessarily famous tourist places.
by imadeitathing January 12, 2018
A person who when terrorism or a natural disaster strikes does not see pain and suffering caused to a city or nation but rather an opportunity, an opportunity for cheap flights and hotel whilst a country mourns the death toll and destruction.
Sarah: “Hi James, heard you’re off on holiday next week, anywhere nice?”
James: “Hell yeah Sarah, there was a crazy bad earthquake that hit Croatia last week, you want to see the bargain I got! A little bit of terrorism tourism never hurt anyone.”
James: “Hell yeah Sarah, there was a crazy bad earthquake that hit Croatia last week, you want to see the bargain I got! A little bit of terrorism tourism never hurt anyone.”
by Simp Sauce November 8, 2023
The act of deliberately using your rear view mirror to look into the car behind to check out what the driver/occupants are doing.
"Hey man, on the way in this morning, there's this woman punching out her husband in the car behind me. I even started yelling her on."
"You've got to give up this rear view tourism, pal."
"You've got to give up this rear view tourism, pal."
by They Told Me I Had To August 20, 2009