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Proposed Definition:

A tourist attraction is a feature sight, event or place of interest that serves as the center of tourism activities, businesses and tourist visits. It can be of historical, cultural, artistic, scientific, environmental significance or even of novelty value. Examples include monuments, parks, museums, and the like. Usually, these topics are co-typed with Location. Unless it is an event, it should be co-typed with Event or Recurring Event and Location type should be removed.

Things that are Tourist Attraction :

• Structures and buildings considered to have architectural, historical, cultural, scientific, artistic, environmental or leisure/entertainment value and significance such as St. Patrick's Cathedral, Stonehenge and Golden Gate Bridge. These are co-typed as Structure. Some may not be single structures but rather complexes such as Angkor Wat, Hadrian's Villa and Monte Carlo Casino.

• Museums exhibiting historical, cultural, artistic, scientific or novelty collections in indoor galleries such as Salvador Dali Museum, Viking Ship Museum and East Slovak Museum. These are co-typed as Museum and Structure.

• Open-air museums and living history museums that display collections of structures, mostly building complexes, or other outdoor artifacts. They showcase or recreate conditions of a specific culture, natural environment or historical period. Examples are Skansen, Nazareth Village and Winsen Museum Farm. These are co-typed as Museum .

• Geographical features such as land formation, body of water, underwater landforms, caves, etc. that show natural beauty or has historical, cultural or scientific significance. Examples are Canadian Rockies, Bondi Beach and Lérins Islands. These are co-typed as Geographical Feature.

• Parks, Gardens and Plazas that are notable for their landscape designs or their historical, cultural or environmental significance such as Central Park, Gardens by the Bay, Stanley Park and most national parks.

• Vineyards and farms that are notable for their scenery, produce or historical, scientific, environmental or cultural significance such as Beaulieu Vineyard and Windfields Farm.

• Zoos, aquariums and other natural reserves or wildlife conservation areas such as Wildlife Sydney, Georgia Aquarium, Kambui Hills Forest Reserve and Funafuti Conservation Area.

• Theme Parks such as Universal Orlando, Seaworld Gold Coast, PortAventura and Särkänniemi.

• Districts and neighborhoods that are of cultural and historical significance such as Gamla stan, Times Square and Japantown.

• Roads and streets that are notable for their historical, cultural, engineering or artistic value such as Champs-Élysées, Appian Way and Great Ocean Road.

• Railways and transits that are notable for their engineering or aesthetic design or historical and cultural significance such as Puffing Billy Railway and Polybahn funicular.

• Sites or specific areas within the vicinity of an administrative area or geographical areas that have historical, cultural, scientific, artistic or environmental significance. These include historical sites such as location of castle ruins, shipwreck sites, alleged UFO landing sites, alleged mythological sites, battle sites, etc.

• Notable events ( can be social, historical, cultural, scientific, environmental, artistic, etc. ) that generate tourist visits. Examples are specific royal weddings, travel events, art exhibits, etc.

• Notable Sports Events such as Monaco Grand Prix, Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup. These are co-typed as Recurring Event.

• Notable Festivals such as Oktoberfest, Cannes Film Festival and Les Azuriales Opera Festival. These are co-typed as Recurring Event.

Things that are NOT Tourist Attraction :

• Administrative areas wherein the tourist attraction is located such as towns, cities, regions or countries. Examples are Siem Reap where Angkor Wat is located, London where Big Ben can be found and Orlando where Walt Disney World is located. These should be typed as travel destination.

• Organizations and individuals who own, designed, created, preserve or manage the tourist attraction.

• Business establishments that promote the tourist attraction and provide services within the vicinity of the tourist attraction such as real estate companies, marketing and advertising agencies, online directory companies, event organizers, tour and travel companies, shops, restaurants, transportation services, accommodation and lodging facilities, activity camps, etc.

• Subjects or inspirations of the tourist attraction such as soldiers who died in wars and battles inspiring many war memorials and other artworks all over the world.

• Venues using the tourist attraction as a theme for their parties or events.

• Individual components of the tourist attraction such as one animal in a zoo, the individual shops in Chinatown, paintings or valuable objects in a museum. These can be highlights but not considered as tourist attraction.

• Activities being done to reach, view or experience the tourist attraction such as cruising, hot air balloon flying, horseback riding, sailing, gambling, hiking, etc.