Class tourism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The practice by members of the middle class of visiting working class areas or slums out of curiosity or for entertainment. uncountable
"From the beginning, professional photography typically meant the broader kind of class tourism, with most photographers combining surveys of social abjection with portraits of celebrities or commodities (high fashion, advertising) or studies of the nude."
- 2 Tourism catering to a wealthy elite (contrasted with mass tourism). uncountable
"The matter of whether Hawaii is to be given over to “mass” or “class” tourism will obviously have been settled by then, and in favor of the former, for the early 1970s will see the 500-passenger “Jumbo” jets come winging in."
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More examples"From the beginning, professional photography typically meant the broader kind of class tourism, with most photographers combining surveys of social abjection with portraits of celebrities or commodities (high fashion, advertising) or studies of the nude."