• Source: Tourist trap

A tourist trap is an establishment (or group of establishments) created or re-purposed with the aim of attracting tourists and their money. Tourist traps typically provide overpriced services, entertainment, food, souvenirs, and other products for tourists to purchase. Tourist trap derives from the information asymmetry between tourists and the market.




United States


In some areas, simple facilities may be a sufficient draw to entice tourists to stop. Wall Drug, in South Dakota, began its tourist trade by offering free ice water.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania, represents a physical tourist trap at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Interstate 76, where the two major highways are not directly connected, forcing transiting drivers off the interstate and "into several suddenly urban blocks with traffic lights and a dense bazaar of gas stations, fast food restaurants and motels."
South of the Border is an attraction on Interstate 95 (I-95), US Highway 301 (US 301) and US 501 in Dillon, South Carolina, just south of Rowland, North Carolina. It is so named because it is just south of the border between North Carolina and South Carolina, and was the halfway point to Florida from New York in the early days of motor travel. The area is themed in tongue-in-cheek, faux-Mexican style. The rest area contains restaurants, gas stations, a video arcade, a motel, a truck stop as well as a small amusement park, a mini golf course, shopping and fireworks stores. Its mascot is Pedro, a caricature of a Mexican bandido. South of the Border is known for its roadside billboard advertisements, which begin many miles away, and incorporates a mileage countdown to the attraction itself. The stop has since fallen on hard times as more modern hotel areas have grown along I-95.
Alice's Restaurant, a restaurant in Sky Londa, California, named after its founder Alice Taylor, accidentally became a tourist trap after singer Arlo Guthrie released his signature song of the same name, which was based on a totally unrelated Massachusetts restaurant established by Alice Brock. After Taylor sold the restaurant, her successors themed the restaurant after the song, adding a "Group W bench" for example, when they realized the confusion was good for business.
A few establishments take pride in the term and embody it into their names, such as "Da Yoopers Tourist Trap", run by the comedy troupe Da Yoopers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and "The Tourist Trap" at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland.




See also


Gift shop
List of confidence tricks
Lists of tourist attractions
Overtourism
Roadside attraction
Tourist attraction




References

• Source: Tourist Trap

A tourist trap is an establishment made for attracting tourists.
Tourist trap may also refer to:




Film


Tourist Trap (film), a 1979 horror film directed by David Schmoeller
Tourist Trap, a 1998 comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin




Literature


Tourist Trap, a 1986 novel by Julie Smith




Television






= Episodes

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"Tourist Trap", Ben 10 season 1, episode 6 (2006)
"Tourist Trap", Crocadoo series 1, episode 12 (1996)
"Tourist Trap", Forensic Files season 8, episode 6 (2003)
"Tourist Trap", Godzilla: The Series season 2, episode 19 (2001)
"Tourist Trap", Major Crimes season 5, episode 6 (2016)
"Tourist Trap", Point of Entry season 3, episode 7 (2013)
"Tourist Trap", Sheena season 1, episode 5 (2000)
"Tourist Trap", The Hitchhiker season 6, episode 13 (1990)
"Tourist Trap", T.U.F.F. Puppy season 3, episode 3b(2015)
"The Tourist Trap", The Bill series 5, episode 82 (1989)




= Shows

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Tourist Trap (TV series), a 2018-19 comedy series broadcast on BBC One Wales

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