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Visitors Not Tourists



I’ve been listening to Cape Cod radio a lot lately and the other day a DJ made some remark about how they’re not supposed to use the word “tourists” anymore because it’s unwelcoming or something. Now they have to use the word “visitors” and I’ve already begun hearing that term used in commercials. Cape Cod is a big vacation spot, so the bulk of the population here is not native to the region.







4 Reader Responses

  1. speedbird Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 1:35 am

    Is it because of the war on tourism?

  2. nitro2k01 Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 8:44 am

    I can see the point the actually. A visitor is someone who is probably more tightly integrated to the community than a tourist. (Assuming that a number of people have summer homes there and so on)
    You might think of another case of political correctness, but when you do some research you see that words can make a great difference among people subconsciously, so I don’t think there’s any harm in replacing the word tourist in this case.

  3. jwx Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    I agree. I should’ve qualified my ……..

    Thanks Julia, good food for thought.

  4. alistair Says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    it`s all about perception. i see clients. to call them patients puts them in a different light.



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