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Asylum Tourism

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Making special trips to visit shut-down insane asylums. Can be done in real life or in virtual life. Virtual Asylum Tourism allows a wider range of travel and prevents risk from hazards like asbestos, arrest, and collapsing stairways, but it lacks the sickening real-life terror that follows exposure to these places. A variant is collecting books featuring images of asylums, but this is not quite as bent as purchasing airplane tickets.
*Hey, sis, I need to get away from it all.
*Well, let's head up to Danvers State before they bulldoze the Kirkbride and build some unique luxury condos! Asylum Tourism always cheers you up!
by mookamutt May 12, 2007
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counter-tourism

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(n.) counter-tourism refers to offensive measures taken to deter, prevent and respond to tourism.
Before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics began all the manhole covers in and around the city were welded open as a counter-tourism measure.
by Dic Maestro February 6, 2013
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car tourism

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the act of driving around a new or familiar place as oppose to walking, hence seeing and enjoying more of the area in a short space of time from the comfort of your own car.
girl: lets walk round the new forest

guy: car tourism is the way forward
by unico2525 June 22, 2011
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Singapore Math Tourism

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When math educators fly to the “fine” city of Singapore to attend a pep talk on the bar model method, and to visit a local school and watch a teacher conduct a problem-solving math lesson, before spending the rest of their educational trip on shopping and sightseeing.
When Singapore Math tourism visitors flew back home, they’d excitedly tell their principals or superintendents to embrace the Singapore Math model, by substituting their present dear mile-wide-inch-deep textbooks with wallet-friendly Singapore math titles, often much to the disapproval of their colleagues, who want to “Make US Math Great Again.”
by MathPlus January 3, 2021
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homosexual tourism

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Experimenting with sexual relationships with members of the same sex, usually without intention of identifying oneself as gay, lesbian or bisexual for the long term. See bicurious and lesbian until graduation LUG.
1: "So she's like a full-on lesbian now?"

2: "Nah, I think it's just homosexual tourism. Any money she'll be doing the soccer mom thing a decade from now."
by bongda January 5, 2009
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suicide tourism

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A trip to the country, where euthanasia or assisted suicide is legal
Switzerland is popular destination for suicide tourism in Europe
by dildo777 September 13, 2022
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revenge tourism

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Post covid vaccination touring with a vengeance. Touring hard because you've got pent up FOMO.
Baylee is doing some revenge tourism on the big island of Hawai'i because she was stuck indoors for 2020 watching friends reruns.
by Thalidomide Baby July 3, 2021
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