tourist

Etymology

From tour + -ist.

noun

1. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business.
2. (derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
3. (sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.
4. (computing, dated) A guest user on a computer system.
   This popularity was supposedly due to M.I.T.'s tolerance of "tourists" on its system. 1984, Dean Gengle, The Netweaver's Sourcebook, page 105
   The online tourists then uploaded the files to share with other BBS aficionados. 2012, Michael Banks, On the Way to the Web

verb

1. (intransitive) To travel as a tourist.
   “You can’t go touristing anymore like you used to, but weekends away — traditionally crammed into sneaking out of work slightly early on a Friday in a dash to have some repose — now mean heading out on a Wednesday night, logging on to work and coming back Monday night,” said Tom Caton, the co-founder and chief revenue officer of AirDNA […] 2020-11-04, Sarah Firshein, “Forget Long Weekends: During the Pandemic It’s All About Short Weeks”, in The New York Times