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Tourism in North Korea
Tourism in North Korea is an industry in which foreign visitors travel only on guided tours through approved operators, closed from 2020 until a partial reopening to Russians in 2024.
Tourism in Pakistan
Tourism in Pakistan: travel sector built on Karakoram mountaineering, Gilgit-Baltistan, Sikh and Buddhist heritage, and domestic travel. GDP contribution 5.9% (2022), PTDC and NTCB institutions, visa reform for 126 countries.
Tourism in Sri Lanka
Tourism in Sri Lanka is one of the country's leading foreign-exchange earners, reaching a record 2.36 million visitors in 2025 after recovering from war, the 2019 attacks, COVID-19, and the 2022 economic collapse.
Tourism in Thailand
Tourism in Thailand is one of the country's largest industries, drawing 35.5 million international visitors in 2024 and directly generating 5.5% of GDP and 12% of employment.
Tourism in the Philippines
Tourism in the Philippines, promoted under the slogan "It's More Fun in the Philippines," is a travel industry that contributed 8.1 percent of GDP in 2025.
Tourism in the United States
Tourism in the United States is the travel of domestic and international visitors, generating $2.64 trillion in output and 10 million jobs in 2023, with 72.4 million international arrivals in 2024.
Tourist (musician)
Tourist is the stage name of William Phillips, a British electronic producer who won the 2015 Grammy for Song of the Year co-writing "Stay with Me."
Tourist attraction
Tourist attraction: permanent natural, cultural or built assets managed as visitor experiences. Covers Leiper's attraction system, classifications, 2024 visitation data (246m theme-park visits; British Museum 6.5m), World Heritage listing effects, and overtourism controls at Venice and the Acropolis.
Tourist Family
Tourist Family (2025) is a Tamil comedy-drama, the debut of director Abishan Jeevinth, starring M. Sasikumar and Simran as a Sri Lankan Tamil family settling illegally in Chennai; it grossed about ₹87 crore worldwide on a ₹7 crore budget.
Tourist guy
Tourist Guy, or Tourist of Death (Péter Guzli), a hoax photo of a man on a WTC observation deck time-stamped 9/11/2001; actually taken November 28, 1997, with a pasted-in Boeing 757, debunked by Snopes and Wired.
Tourist Trap
Tourist Trap (1979) is an American PG horror film directed by David Schmoeller, starring Chuck Connors as Mr. Slausen, whose telekinetic mannequins menace stranded travelers; an $800,000 Charles Band production praised by Stephen King.
Tourmaline
Tourmaline is a group of more than 40 borosilicate mineral species with prismatic crystals and one of the widest color ranges of any gemstone, from red to green and blue.
Tourmaline (activist)
Tourmaline (born 1983, formerly Reina Gossett) is an American Black trans artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist. Known for Happy Birthday, Marsha!, Salacia, the Trap Door anthology, and the 2025 Marsha P. Johnson biography; SRLP healthcare campaign organizer.
Tourmaline Oil Corp.
Tourmaline Oil Corp. is a Calgary-based Canadian oil and gas company founded in 2008 by Michael Rose and identifying itself as Canada's largest natural gas producer.
Tournament
Tournament: an organized competition of matches producing a ranking or champion. Covers the medieval knightly combat sport (1050-1550) and modern formats such as round robin, knockout, and Swiss system.
Tournament of Champions (TV series)
Tournament of Champions (TOC) is a Food Network cooking competition hosted by Guy Fieri since March 2020, with a single-elimination chef bracket, the Randomizer wheel, and blind judging; women won the first five seasons, with Maneet Chauhan the only two-time champion.
Tournament of Roses Honor Band
The Tournament of Roses Honor Band is Pasadena City College's Rose Parade band, official band of the Tournament since 1930, with 225 spots filled by audition from over 500 Southern California high school students, plus the Herald Trumpets unit.
Tournament selection
Tournament selection is a parent-selection operator in evolutionary algorithms: it draws k random candidates and copies the fittest into the mating pool, with pressure rising with tournament size.
Tourniquet
A tourniquet is a medical device that squeezes a limb to stop blood flow, used in surgery for a bloodless field and in emergencies to control severe bleeding.
Touro Synagogue
Touro Synagogue (Newport, Rhode Island), oldest synagogue building in the United States, built 1759–1763, designed by Peter Harrison, dedicated December 2, 1763, National Historic Site since 1946, tied to Washington's 1790 religious-freedom letter.
Tours
Tours, prefecture of Indre-et-Loire in the Loire Valley, France; ancient Caesarodunum, city of Saint Martin and Louis XI. 139,259 inhabitants (2023), seat of Tours Métropole Val de Loire.
Toussaint Charbonneau
Toussaint Charbonneau (1767, Boucherville, Quebec – died 1839–1843) was a French-Canadian fur trader and Indian interpreter, husband of Sacagawea, hired by Lewis and Clark in 1804 and later a US Indian Bureau interpreter.
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture (Toussaint Bréda, c. 1743–1803), Haitian Revolution leader: enslaved at Bréda, freed 1776, Spanish then French general, governor for life under his 1801 constitution, arrested by Leclerc in 1802, died at Fort de Joux.
Toussaint Louverture's invasion of Spanish Santo Domingo
Toussaint Louverture's invasion of Spanish Santo Domingo (Invasion de Santo Domingo par Toussaint Louverture) was his occupation of eastern Hispaniola in January 1801, ending with Captain General Joaquín García's capitulation.
Toussaint Rouge
Toussaint Rouge, French for Red All Saints' Day, was a series of coordinated FLN attacks across Algeria on 1 November 1954 that began the eight-year Algerian War.
Tousside, Tarso
Tarso Toussidé (Tousside, Tarso), a 6,000 km² volcanic massif in western Tibesti, Chad, capped by the 3,265 m Toussidé stratovolcano; no Holocene eruptions, but fumaroles, young lava flows, and satellite-detected subsidence show residual activity.
Tout va bien
Tout va bien ("Everything's All Right") is a 1972 French-Italian political film by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand as a couple sequestered during a sausage-factory strike, a post-1968 class-struggle critique.
Toutankhamon
Toutankhamon is a Jumbo family board game (French release 2004, 2–6 players, age 8+) mixing memory and push-your-luck: players dig a self-built 96-tile pyramid with a suction-cup shovel, avoiding traps. Distinct from Knizia's Tutanchamun and the 1985 Thomson video game.
Toutiao
Toutiao, also known as Jinri Toutiao (今日头条, "Today's Headlines"), is a Chinese news aggregation app launched by ByteDance in 2012, whose fully algorithmic personalization reshaped Chinese news distribution.
Touxia (Appanage) Households
Touxia (投下戶) households were populations assigned as private appanages to Yuan princes, princesses, and consort families, divided into grassland ulus, five-household-silk fief, and private dependent households.