detouristify

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ touristify.

Verb

detouristify (third-person singular simple present detouristifies, present participle detouristifying, simple past and past participle detouristified)

  1. (travel, rare) To stop conforming to the expectations or patterns of tourists.
    Antonym: touristify
    • 1991, Owen Dudley Edwards, City of a Thousand Worlds: Edinburgh in Festival‎[1], page 53:
      If the spectacle of the junior Edimburgeoisie going native in Spain was intended to detouristify Carmen, it hardly succeeded.
    • 2014, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder‎[2], page 144:
      Nero enjoyed taking long walks in old cities, without a map. He used the following method to detouristify his traveling: he tried to inject some randomness into his schedule by never deciding on the next destination until he had spent some time in the first one, driving his travel agent crazy—when he was in Zagreb, his next destination would be determined by his state of mind while in Zagreb.
    • 2023 August 19, Alexandra Gross, “Barcelona bar none”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 4:
      […] Barcelona's oldest neighbourhoods that include the famous La Rambla boulevard, which is getting ambitious makeovers to “detouristify” it and create more pavement space for pedestrians.
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