How often have you heard someone who just returned from a vacation say, "Oh, I love to travel, but I'm not a tourist." "Tourist," like "tacky," seems to have become a dirty word. "Tourist" is now a coded derogatory term to refer to a person who goes to chain restaurants in other cities or who spends hours waiting in line for an overpriced activity. If you don't speak the local language and can't get to know the residents, people may not care how far you went out of your way to avoid major tourist attractions. Simply being a tourist isn't a bad thing.

Source: CNN July 19, 2017 13:30 UTC