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Tourism vs Expedition - What's the difference?

tourism | expedition |

As nouns the difference between tourism and expedition

is that tourism is the act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home while expedition is the act of expediting or hurrying.

tourism

English

(wikipedia 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

    expedition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • To act of expediting something; prompt execution.
  • A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
  • The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
  • * 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), :
    • one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […].
  • * 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 331:
  • *:he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.
  • *1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 33:
  • *:The photographer had photographed, the doctor had certified life extinct, the pathologist had inspected the body in situ'' as a prelude to conducting his autopsy – all with an expedition quite contrary to the proper pace of things, merely in order to clear the way for the visiting ''irregular , as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Crime and Ops) had liked to call him.
  • An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition.
  • The body of persons making such excursion.