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Tourism vs Culture - What's the difference?

tourism | culture |

As a noun tourism

is the act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.

As a verb culture is

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tourism

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.
  • Collectively, the tourists visiting a place or landmark.
  • The act of visiting another region or jurisdiction for a particular purpose.
  • libel tourism'''; suicide '''tourism'''; sex '''tourism

    Derived terms

    * accessible tourism * agritourism * benefit tourism * birth tourism * bookstore tourism * conscious tourism * cultural tourism * dark tourism * disaster tourism * ecotourism * educational tourism * faith tourism * gambling tourism * geotourism * ghetto tourism * jungle tourism * libel tourism * mass tourism * medical tourism * religious tourism * sex tourism * space tourism * suicide tourism * sustainable tourism * thanatourism * tourist * VFR tourism * voluntourism * war tourism

    culture

    English

    (Culture) (Culture) (Culture) (Culture)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Farming as rocket science , passage=Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives.}}
  • The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp)
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Race Finished , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture , ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.}}
  • (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
  • (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
  • The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
  • (botany) Cultivation.
  • * http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
  • The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
  • (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
  • A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies. ... Examples: en-UK, en-US, de-AT, fr-BE, etc.

    Derived terms

    * alliumculture * anticulture * coleculture * cucurbitculture * culture hero * cyberculture * legumeculture * macroculture * microculture * monoculture * multiculture * olericulture * overculture * solanaculture * subculture * permaculture * uberculture * underculture

    Verb

    (cultur)
  • To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
  • To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
  • See also

    * colonus * colonia * column * cycle * wheel English collective nouns ----