How to Use tourist trap in a Sentence

tourist trap

noun

• That hotel is just a tourist trap.
• The street market is a tourist trap that mostly sells cheap souvenirs.
• La Rambla is home to a fine selection of historic hotels, but the restaurant scene is full of tourist traps.
  — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2024
• All the more reason to avoid the tourist traps and focus on the growing craft beer scene.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Pike Place Market is a tourist trap, but a stop at Piroshky Piroshky makes the crowds worth it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• There are no town squares, no restaurants, and no tourist traps.
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2023
• Despite all the tourism signs, the Laurel Highlands are far from a tourist trap.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 27 July 2021
• Perhaps those big, epoch-marking years are tourist traps of a kind.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• There's a reason the 1995 movies Showgirls and Casino were filmed at this tourist trap.
  — Madison Roberts, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2022
• The city may not have the flashy kid-centric tourist traps like Disneyland, but there’s still plenty for the younger crowd.
  — Megan Barber, Curbed, 20 Nov. 2018
• There's a reason Showgirls and Casino were filmed at this tourist trap.
  — Amy Jamieson, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
• There’s even a tourist trap called the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters near the trail’s southern end.
  — Eric Barton, Outside Online, 10 July 2019
• Or a tourist trap with pricey boutiques and bistros tucked inside old-timey facades.
  — Mike Bezemek, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2021
• Too young to know about traffic, tourist traps and six-level parking garages.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• And while some may view the Olympics as a tourist trap to bring in money, data shows that tourism in Olympic cities often declines.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 25 Apr. 2024
• There was one dining option: the dreaded tourist trap restaurant with a scenic vista.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2022
• One of the restaurants Tony wanted to go to personally, not for the show, was Au Pied de Cochon, kind of a tourist trap.
  — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
• Many guides have agreements with concierges or hotels who are paid to steer travelers to pricey tourist traps.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2018
• The surrounding neighborhood is a tourist trap, but the north, west and southwest coasts are gorgeous.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• The dining room of his more casual space bears hints of a French Quarter tourist trap, with Mardi Gras beads and jester’s masks slung over a wall sconce.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 28 June 2018
• Getting to the Musée was just a matter of hopping on a cable car and riding it to the end of the line near Fishermans Wharf, which is a bit of tourist trap these days.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2018
• Just a few minutes’ walk from the flashing billboards and marquees of New York’s Times Square, the tourist traps give way to a different kind of sparkle and hustle.
  — Time, 8 Jan. 2020
• Pass the stand where out-of-towners and politicians have donned sombreros and serapes for photos ever since the city turned this area into a tourist trap in 1930.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
• Including the Mitchells, who first encounter their new robot overlords at a tourist trap with a dinosaur theme.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2021
• Such are the legendary tales weaving through this tourist trap and epicenter of the gambling industry.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
• According to Kamolchai, tourists trapped in the cave by past floods have been rescued after the water receded a few days later.
  — Tassanee Vejpongsa, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2018
• The homes have also become a bit of a tourist trap — one that police are requesting visitors to stay away from for their safety.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020
• There’s a fine line between must-see attraction and overrated tourist trap.
  — Gabrielle Olya, USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
• There's a fine line between must-see attraction and overrated tourist trap.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
• So the filmmakers left behind 44 hobbit holes, the Green Dragon Inn and dozens of other props, turning the farm into a proper tourist trap.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024