What is touristd?

Solution 1:

What is touristd responsible for?

touristd is responsible for displaying a New to Mac? notification roughly after 5-10 minutes using macOS Sierra for the first time.

'New to Mac?' notification

After you click on Show it will open the What's New in macOS page in Safari.

There is a preference file that gets created/modified after dismissing or activating the notification.

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.touristd.plist.

Where can you find it?

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Tourist.framework/Versions/A/Resources/touristd