Traveler (blue) vs. tourist (red), 1900-2008 (click for larger version):
Note that "tourist" takes over for good in the mid-1950s--exactly when the budget tourism boom was beginning.
24 December 2010
Graph of the day: traveler vs tourist mentions in books, 1900-2008
Google estimates that it has scanned some 10 percent of all books, ever. And here comes Google Ngram Viewer to allow you to track mentions of words or phrases in their scanned database--in other words, to allow you to spend massive amounts of time being distracted (arugula vs. iceberg lettuce, Gore Vidal vs. Norman Mailer).
Traveler (blue) vs. tourist (red), 1900-2008 (click for larger version):
Note that "tourist" takes over for good in the mid-1950s--exactly when the budget tourism boom was beginning.
Traveler (blue) vs. tourist (red), 1900-2008 (click for larger version):
Note that "tourist" takes over for good in the mid-1950s--exactly when the budget tourism boom was beginning.
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