An unexpected increase in tourism to a small town could be a bonanza for the locals. Bonanza means "a sudden opportunity to make money."
In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
Noun
a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line"
Noun
an especially rich vein of precious ore
n.
In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence,
anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
Bonanza
In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
Usage Examples
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.
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Other Usage ExamplesYou do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.