Sentence examples for tourist theme from inspiring English sources

At the time of his visit, Mauritius had yet to reinvent itself as a tourist theme park, a society dedicated to boundless leisure.

All the while without pandering to the government desire to turn the whole of Britain into a giant tourist theme park.

If you do nothing else in Mexico City, make sure you spend a Sunday afternoon on the canals of Xochimilco, which, despite having the look and feel of a tourist theme park, remain hugely popular with Mexicans.

Every now and then, as you stand in the Barrio Gotic and wonder whether the locals who refer to Barcelona as a "tourist theme park" are being hyperbolic, a bike tour – if you're particularly unlucky, a Segway tour – will spin around a tight corner and you will have to jump to avoid being body-slammed into an oversized paella dish.

Only days after Singapore announced that it had awarded its first casino license to Las Vegas Sands, its neighbor and occasional rival Malaysia said it aimed to put a tourist theme park across the narrow strait that divides the two countries, possibly a Disneyland.

Regulars such as Mariella Frostrup have been lamenting the loss in the press and many locals see the sale as further evidence that Notting Hill is losing its unique soul and becoming more like a tourist theme park by the day.

But anyone feeling nostalgic for the seedy old days before Times Square became a tourist-friendly theme park will get a kick out of this evening of big hair and bad manners.

It is the movement from the language of aesthetics and cultural history to a language of money and the bottom line; from "classicism" and "architecture" to "tourists" and "theme park".

But there is also another, less appealing stereotype: New Orleans as a tourist-filled theme park that has long since lost its soul, where it is as hard to hear great music as it is to find real Cajun or Creole food.

In a twist on the adage, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," Darwin's tourist-attracting theme seems to be, "If it can kill you, you can see it here up close".

In this way, the games are more like tourist jaunts or theme park attractions than actual colonialist expeditions.