Word: turista
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...Most of them in the tradition of Union soldiers, who dubbed it the Virginia or Tennessee quickstep, depending on where they were campaigning. Currently popular: turista in most of Latin America; "Aztec two-step" or "Montezuma's revenge" in Mexico; "Turkey trot" and "Gyppy tummy" in the Middle East; "Delhi belly" in India; and-universally-"the trots" and "the G.I.'s" referring not to government issue but to gastrointestinal symptoms...
...lived discomfort or, in the form of amoebic dysentery, a severe, life-threatening disease. Last week, though Mexicans stoutly insist that their country is not so bad as others to the south, Mexico City's local government took a major step toward eliminating what is variously known as turista, the Aztec two-step, and Montezuma's revenge. In the capital's big, sparkling new Jamaica Market, and in a dozen smaller ones, watchful health inspectors installed a rigorous system of spraying fruits and vegetables with a chemical named Mobidin (containing colloidal silver and copper). The chemical...
...Figueroa poured a little cold water on the lava. Said she: "Every time a girl wearing a rebozo comes into the bank, all the girls behind the counter say how beautiful she looks. But if I wore one the boss would ask me if I thought I was a turista, or was on holiday in Cuernavaca. And it is going to continue that way as long as people are afraid of what people will say and the stylish people think a rebozo is the badge of a housemaid...