What are some signs a particular tourist attraction is a tourist trap?

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Feb 2, 2007 | 11:25 am

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Any place where visitors prop up the local economy, but are still despised by the natives.

Feb 2, 2007 | 1:51 pm

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Tourists

Feb 2, 2007 | 2:56 pm

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Originally Posted by tom911

Define "tourist trap".

Any attraction with more than two large highway signs in the last mile before the turn-in.....

Feb 2, 2007 | 3:16 pm

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Just look around .. if there are more tourists than locals, you know you're in a tourist trap

And not exactly a tourist trap but I felt the same way and use it as a guide before I dine at a chinese restaurant. If I see more asian than non-asian diners, it means it's an authentic chinese restaurant

Feb 2, 2007 | 3:52 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by adbrite

a can of coke costs 3 bucks?

1) The taxi driver insists that I should stop there, or
2) worse, the tour bus I'm on makes a stop there (think the Great Wall trips outside Beijing)

Feb 2, 2007 | 5:16 pm

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A huge sign that says, "We are a hidden secret gem".

Feb 2, 2007 | 5:19 pm

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Originally Posted by SFFlyman

Tourists

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Especially if they are American!

Feb 2, 2007 | 5:29 pm

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I was on the verge of proudly gloating that I hail from Houston...perhaps the world's largest city (outside of the burgeoning new megacities in China) without an honest-to-goodness "tourist-trap." Then I remembered we have NASA. I truly feel sorry for those who come to Houston to see NASA thinking: "Oh, well there must be other things to see and do there as well." Poor Schlubs...

Feb 2, 2007 | 5:56 pm

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What's wrong with NASA? Never been there, but I would have guessed it would be fascinating.

Feb 2, 2007 | 6:12 pm

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Las Vegas is a Tourist Trap

Feb 2, 2007 | 6:19 pm

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Originally Posted by Benny8444

Las Vegas is a Tourist Trap

Yea, but at least you know what you are going into ahead of time

It's pretty universal! No surprises (I hope)
"What happens in Vegas..............."

Feb 2, 2007 | 6:29 pm

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All those places which tourist bus drivers takes you ,such as some GEM cutting factory and other non-sense (Just because the driver gets few bukcs for bringing the passengers). Who the heck wants to go there in the first place and see those overpriced stuff! I wonder whether any one really buys anything!