How to Use day-tripper in a Sentence

day-tripper

noun
  • Farther away, Venice, Italy, has started a program to charge day-trippers an entry fee for the city, hoping to discourage visits on peak days.
    Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Venice has delayed plans to charge day-trippers a tax to enter the city, meant to curb arrivals.
    Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • The ecopark is hard to get to, which deters day-trippers and keeps it from getting too busy.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
  • For example, Venice, Italy, in April became the first city in the world to charge day-trippers a fee just to enter on peak days.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 June 2024
  • Similarly, the city of Venice also wants to charge day-trippers to come.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Currently, the length of the walk means that too many day-trippers and school groups have to choose between visiting the museum and the site of the battle.
    Erin L. Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • This is the first time in four years that the park hasn’t required advance booking for summertime day-tripper visits to the valley.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • Since day-trippers don’t pay the existing overnight tourist tax, starting on April 25 the city will charge them a new €5 daytime levy during the busiest days in spring and summer.
    Laura Millan, Fortune Europe, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Top tip: For day-trippers after somewhere to park up, check this list of Arkansas State Parks in, and close to, the path of totality.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Last April, day-trippers to the city started having to pay a 5-euro entry fee, and large cruise ships have been banned from entering the Venice lagoon.
    Paul Thornton, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Afternoons can be slightly less crowded as day-trippers return to the train station for their trip back to Cusco.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
  • Besides, the famous changeable weather in spring across the path of totality will dictate where many day-trippers head to on April 8.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Those crowds can average twenty-thousand day-trippers during the peak of summer, so making the trip early on is a smart move.
    Amy Louise Bailey, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Its cafes and restaurants were mobbed by Parisian day-trippers, many of whom came to watch or participate in the sailing and rowing regattas, and to swim, shoot or ride horses.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • For the thousands of travelers who enter the park as day-trippers, however, the program marks an important change.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • No matter your travel style, the state has something for everyone — even Denver day-trippers will find a national park less than a two-hour car ride away.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Once on land, a small group of us climbed its steep, craggy hills, passing goats and deer grazing on the thorny brush as well as Indonesian day-trippers who paused to take selfies in hijabs and designer gear.
    Sunil Badami, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2023
  • Preservationists describe the fee for day-trippers as too little too late, noting that the 5-euro price of admission is less than the cost of a cappuccino on St. Mark’s Square.
    Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • According to the Maryland Office of Tourism, overnight visitors in Maryland have an economic impact 12 times that of day-trippers.
    Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2024
  • The islands are rustic, rural, and incredibly peaceful after the ferries full of day-trippers have finished their routes.
    Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • The lake, a tranquil spot where unusually friendly swans compete with ducks and geese for bread tossed by people on the shore, attracts residents from nearby towns and day-trippers from Rome, about a 45-minute drive south.
    Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The city said the biggest culprits are day-trippers, who don’t add much economic value to the city – like eating at local hotels or restaurants – while still putting pressure on the city’s infrastructure.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
  • However, Venice’s latest moves are undoubtedly aimed at reducing the number of day-trippers to the city, who make up about 80% of the city’s total visitors, rather than long-term travelers.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The influx of international jet-setters to Europe has caused some bustling destinations to enact anti-tourism policies such as bans on new hotels and day-tripper fees.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 July 2024
  • Dunes overlook sandy beaches that attract hordes of vacationers and day-trippers, and a succession of plants, from dune grass to oak trees, spreads out in an amazingly diverse array that delights scientists and anybody who loves being in nature.
    Tim Zorn, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
  • Most visitors are day-trippers or weekend holiday-makers.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023

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