Meaning of Disneylandification | Babel Free

Definitions

The process of making or turning into something resembling Disneyland; homogenization and commercialization, especially in tourism.

informal

Examples

“Thus it becomes inevitable that the border to kitsch and ‘Disneylandification’ will be crossed, quite often even under the formally correct surveillance of the authorities.”

“If it is the case elsewhere that the tourist industry has ‘touristified’ urban centres that already existed, subjecting them to a process of Disneylandification, Las Vegas is a tourist city created from scratch in the middle of the Mojave Desert, designed purely for the function of drawing in and accommodating tourists.”

“Residents distance themselves from the Disneylandification of the city”

CEFR level