What is a tourist trap?

What is a tourist trap? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An establishment, such as a shop or display, where tourists are encouraged to spend money on goods or services not necessarily of good value.
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Outside the tourist trap, rural properties stay on the market for ages and you could be stuck with it for a couple of years or more.
Although Cuba was once a generous mixture of Europeans, West Africans and Chinese, today there remain only 300 pure Chinese and Chinatown has become a tourist trap.
The ironic tourist treated the tourist trap not as an authentic space, but as a copy of the real.
The village itself was a bit of a tourist trap but we did get to see some crocs, cuddle a koala, feed some kangaroos, get bitten by a parrot.
The train these days is a bit of a tourist trap and passes through several outback settlements on it's journey northwards.
Britain is an expensive tourist trap where visitors are ripped off and overcharged for terrible service in restaurants and hotels.

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