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Association's argument against foreign tourism (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

consortium

'association's' is the definition.
(consortium is a kind of association)

'argument against foreign tourism' is the wordplay.
'argument' becomes 'con' (con is a kind of argument).
'against' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'foreign' is an anagram indicator (foreign order of the letters).
'tourism' anagrammed gives 'sortium'.
'con'+'sortium'='CONSORTIUM'

(Other definitions for consortium that I've seen before include "Association (of several companies)" , "Syndicate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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