How to Use day-tripper in a Sentence

day-tripper

noun
  • Most tourists are day-trippers.
    — Miquel Ros, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The ecopark is hard to get to, which deters day-trippers and keeps it from getting too busy.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Venice has delayed plans to charge day-trippers a tax to enter the city, meant to curb arrivals.
    — Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • Come summer, a pop-up restaurant serves day-trippers and hikers.
    — Madeline Weinfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2024
  • After the day-trippers left, the village transformed.
    — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2025
  • But now there’s a substantial increase in bookings from day-trippers who are more local.
    — Katie Jackson, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Similarly, the city of Venice also wants to charge day-trippers to come.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Pool passes for day-trippers include lunch (plus each sunbed comes with its own cooler icebox filled with rose, beers, and soft drinks).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Tour buses flood the area with day-trippers from cruise ships, and streets facing the church are full of fast food restaurants and souvenir shops.
    — ABC News, 9 June 2026
  • That means the waterways here are maintained for serious paddlers, not just day-trippers.
    — Taylor Haught, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
  • So why do dozens of ferries disgorge thousands of backpacking day-trippers all through the summer season?
    — James Fallon, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
  • This is the first time in four years that the park hasn’t required advance booking for summertime day-tripper visits to the valley.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • Those crowds can average twenty-thousand day-trippers during the peak of summer, so making the trip early on is a smart move.
    — Amy Louise Bailey, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Afternoons can be slightly less crowded as day-trippers return to the train station for their trip back to Cusco.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
  • The town also hosts cruise ships — and day-trippers flood the many tourist shops selling everything from tequila to silver jewelry.
    — Jake Naughton, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Overnight hotel visitors are exempt, as the fee is designed to reduce overcrowding from day-trippers rather than long-term guests.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Even Venice’s 10-euro day-tripper fee has drawn criticism from locals for selling the city to the wealthy.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Currently, the length of the walk means that too many day-trippers and school groups have to choose between visiting the museum and the site of the battle.
    — Erin L. Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Accessible via the mail boat, the middle and southern portion of the island are available for day-trippers and campers to explore.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
  • For the thousands of travelers who enter the park as day-trippers, however, the program marks an important change.
    — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • For example, Venice, Italy, in April became the first city in the world to charge day-trippers a fee just to enter on peak days.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 June 2024
  • When the entrance fee was in effect, day-trippers were required to register online and pay using a QR code.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024
  • Those farmers still send many of their grapes to the Fredericksburg area to be turned into wine that is then tasted by and sold to locals, tourists and day-trippers.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • In 2024, Venice was the first tourist city in the world to introduce fees for day-trippers during peak travel season.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
  • The islands are rustic, rural, and incredibly peaceful after the ferries full of day-trippers have finished their routes.
    — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • Others want to borrow a tactic from Venice, which has famously instituted an entry fee for day-trippers.
    — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 29 May 2026
  • No matter your travel style, the state has something for everyone — even Denver day-trippers will find a national park less than a two-hour car ride away.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Besides, the famous changeable weather in spring across the path of totality will dictate where many day-trippers head to on April 8.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The city banned large cruise ships from entering the lagoon in 2021 and this year there are plans to expand the tourism tax introduced for day-trippers last year.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 13 Mar. 2025
  • After the day-trippers leave Cinque Terre and others retire to their hotel rooms, villages are left in arguably their most magical state.
    — Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 17 June 2025

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