tourist center

Example Sentences

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Downtown Portland, once a cultural and tourist center, is now rife with homeless tents, smashed windows, graffiti, trash and boarded-up businesses, the newspaper reported.

From Fox News • May 15, 2021

Hit the street vendors and restaurant options that abound back in the tourist center: vegetarian-friendly green curried rice, fried mushrooms and pad thai, plus plenty of beef and pork speared on sticks for meat-eaters.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2017

Hiroji Yamashiro, a retired local civil servant, said that he wanted Okinawa to become a tourist center, but that the bases stood in the way.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2016

The town is a low-key tourist center about 25 miles east of the U.S. air base at Ramstein.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2016

Normally a tourist center, the town now was practically deserted, and the Parkers had chosen it because it was within easy driving distance of Riverview.

From Voice from the Cave by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)