Tag:tourism=attraction

The tag tourism=attraction may be added to objects:

1. to indicate that the item is interesting for tourists. Usually this tag is used as a property of a feature to describe that it is of interests to tourists. In this case it is a synonym for tourism=yes. For example waterway=waterfall + tourism=attraction. This usage has a problem of subjectivity: why should one waterfall be considered more tourism-worthy than another? This tagging does not distinguish between major tourism features (for example a theme park) and minor tourism attractions (for example a statue inside the theme park).
2. less commonly, to describe a facility which was built as a general  tourist attraction. In some cases it is used alone, without another main feature tag, for a feature which is designed as a tourist attraction or "tourist trap", for example iFly Singapore iFly Singapore. In many cases there is a more specific value under attraction=*. In such cases it is always possible to improve tagging by adding more specific tags describing object itself.

Not required with attraction=*

The tourism=attraction tag is not a tag that needs to be added to any feature with attraction=*. Instead, the attraction=* tag was designed independently of this tag.

However, several editors, such as Maps.me, wrongly apply attraction=* as a subtag.

See Also

• attraction=* for separate tagging of animals/rides inside theme parks and zoos - not a subtag of tourism=attraction, though tourism=attraction may be applied to ones that are tourism attractions
• tourism=theme_park - A theme park or amusement park
• tourism=yes - To add tourist interest to something described by other tags.