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tourist attraction
Sign in to saveAlso known as visitor attraction, tourist spot, tourist place, attraction for tourists, POI for tourists, tourism attraction, touristic attraction
place of interest where tourists visit
Wikidata facts
- Has part
- natural attraction
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- equivalent class
- schema.org/TouristAttraction
- Commons category
- Visitor attractions
- OpenStreetMap tag
- tourism=attraction
- topic's main category
- Category:Tourist attractions
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Encyclopedic overview
Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. The intersection has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.
A tourist attraction is a place of interest that tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tourist attraction” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.