Aspenize
v.— «Great numbers of the newcomers object strenously to what is termed “the Aspenizing of Bisbee” and the effects of a tourist boom on a dirt-cheap economy that one city councilman estimates is 75 percent dependent on food stamps.» —“Forgotten Arizona Town Girds To Resist Tourism” by Wayne King in Bisbee, Arizona New York Times Feb. 20, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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