Sentence examples for war tourists from inspiring English sources
They have proven that they were not simply war tourists.
Whether observers, war tourists or participants, all were drawn to the first head-on collision between Europe's expansive and unbending ideologies.
Ms. Hawthorne considers this crossroads city in the Old Confederacy ideal, for it draws a million Civil War tourists a year to battleground parklands.
Smart little numbers Two years after the end of the civil war, tourists are coming back; last year 393,000 visitors holidayed in Sri Lanka.
Here and there the stench of death lingered, however, and civilians — war tourists — posed for pictures next to charred vehicles or tanks on scarred roundabouts where battles had been fought.
Andrew J. Tabler, a specialist on Syria at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Mr. Harroun was among many foreign "war tourists," with varying motives, appearing at the front in Syria.
Schell spent only twelve days in Vietnam, which sounds like the brazen act of a journalistic poseur, a war tourist, and yet he proved himself the opposite.
Great characters included eerie religious crusader Kemp, tweeting vampire war tourist Ivan, noble savage McNair, flipchart-wielding bloodsucker Cutler, Mark Gatiss's scenery-chewing vampire leader Mr Snow – or this year's on-the-edge civil servant Mr Rook.
"It's not about being a war tourist, though war can be a part of it," says Andrew Drury, a 50-year-old builder from Surrey who holidays two or three times a year in destinations as insecure as Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chechnya, North Korea and Somalia.
Tunisia The Berber village of Matmata is an oasis of cool underground homes, some still inhabited and all over-run by tour buses and Star Wars tourists (the desert 'pit houses' were used as the location for Luke Skywalker's home).
After Dolly, whom he married, met Hitler through Unity Mitford, he became entangled with Oswald Mosley's fascists, and was an enthusiastic pre-war tourist to Germany.
