Ruin close to tourist spots (5)
I believe the answer is:
trash
'ruin' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'close to tourist spots' is the wordplay.
'close to' says to take the final letters (the close of something is the end).
'spots' becomes 'rash' (I've seen this before).
The last letter of 'tourist' is 't'.
't'+'rash'='TRASH'
(Other definitions for trash that I've seen before include "Garbage or nonsense" , "Junk" , "Take the tops from < rhubarb" , "Rubbish - destroy" , "Rubbish, refuse" .)