What does sightseeing mean?

Definitions for sightseeing
ˈsaɪtˌsi ɪŋsight·see·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sightseeing, rubber-neckingnoun

    going about to look at places of interest

Wiktionary

  1. sightseeingnoun

    The practice of going out looking at things; tourism.

    Sightseeing is a frequent reason to visit San Francisco.

Wikipedia

  1. sightseeing

    Tourism is travel for pleasure or business, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be domestic (within the traveller's own country) or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Tourism numbers declined as a result of a strong economic slowdown (the late-2000s recession) between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, and in consequence of the outbreak of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, but slowly recovered until the COVID-19 pandemic put an abrupt end to the growth. The United Nations World Tourism Organization estimated that global international tourist arrivals might decrease by 58% to 78% in 2020, leading to a potential loss of US$0.9–1.2 trillion in international tourism receipts.Globally, international tourism receipts (the travel item in balance of payments) grew to US$1.03 trillion (€740 billion) in 2005, corresponding to an increase in real terms of 3.8% from 2010. International tourist arrivals surpassed the milestone of 1 billion tourists globally for the first time in 2012. Emerging source markets such as China, Russia, and Brazil had significantly increased their spending over the previous decade.Global tourism accounts for c. 8% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Emissions as well as other significant environmental and social impacts are not always beneficial to local communities and their economies. For this reason, many tourist development organizations have begun to focus on sustainable tourism to mitigate the negative effects caused by the growing impact of tourism. The United Nations World Tourism Organization emphasized these practices by promoting tourism as part of the Sustainable Development Goals, through programs like the International Year for Sustainable Tourism for Development in 2017, and programs like Tourism for SDGs focusing on how SDG 8, SDG 12 and SDG 14 implicate tourism in creating a sustainable economy.Tourism has reached new dimensions with the emerging industry of space tourism as well as the current industry with cruise ships, there are many different ways of tourism. Another potential new tourism industry is virtual tourism.

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  1. sightseeing

    Sightseeing is the activity of visiting and viewing places of interest, landmarks, or natural beauty in a particular location, often as part of tourism or travel. It typically involves exploring different areas, both indoors and outdoors, to appreciate and learn about the historical, cultural or aesthetic attributes of the location.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sightseeing in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sightseeing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of sightseeing in a Sentence

  1. Hania Aguilar:

    This hurts, this is not a visa for sightseeing or staying in the country. I'm fine in my own country. I have work here. I only wanted a day or two to bury my daughter.

  2. Patrick Hausding:

    It would have been nice if they could have rented a bus for the team to do some sightseeing around the city, to be in Tokyo and not be able to see anything is a real shame.

  3. Nicole Ludwig:

    It wasn't sightseeing that excited her, she loved to go meet the people, know the cultures, engross herself in the lives of people.

  4. Ananath Baral:

    Over one-third of the tourists who come to Nepal to visit protected areas want to come here for wildlife sightseeing and adventurous jungle safaris.

  5. Naoya Suzuki:

    Ive had a look at the news and I can just about understand why they are angry, but not why are they are doing all this and stopping the sightseeing of tourists.

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