class tourism

== English == === Noun === class tourism (uncountable) The practice by members of the middle class of visiting working class areas or slums out of curiosity or for entertainment. Synonym: slumming 2002, R. M. Vaughan, interview transcribed in Michelle Berry and Natalee Caple (editors), The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers, Anchor Canada, p. 439,[2] I despise those books. They’re nothing but the worst sort of class tourism. The idea that Atlantic Canadians are the colourful peasantry of the nation enrages me. Tourism catering to a wealthy elite (contrasted with mass tourism). Synonyms: high-class tourism, luxury tourism 1971, Mary McCarthy, Birds of America, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, “A Sibylline Interlude,” p. 284,[5] I feared you might be one of those snobs who distinguish between class tourism and mass tourism. ==== Related terms ==== class tourist