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"tourist trap" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a place that unfairly charges excessive prices for goods or services to tourists. For example: "The hot dog stand on the beach was a real tourist trap; the prices were twice as high as any other vendor."
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tourist trap
noun
An establishment, such as a shop or display, where tourists are encouraged to spend money on goods or services not necessarily of good value.
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Godforsaken tourist trap!
It's a tourist trap.
It's not a tourist trap.
But this is no dainty tourist trap.
(There's even a shop that calls itself the Tourist Trap).
Is there a tourist trap that you actually love?
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Silk-red tourist-trap pagodas of San Francisco's Chinatown.
Skip the tourist-trap sunset cruises on the boats.
This market is clearly no tourist trap and there were very few Westerners around besides ourselves.
At first, I worried that I'd stumbled into a tourist trap.
Over to @grantkmartin on Twitter: Deep dish is a scam, a tourist trap.
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