Tourism Quotes

“Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.”

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

“Wikipedia: Tourism”

“Business tourism is rising in Africa. Demand from international civil servants and businessman is growing strongly.”

“Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.”

“The starting point for any tourism-related planning should always be consistent with the overall management system and the management plan.”

“Essentially the camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”

“I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.”

“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”

“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.”

“Filmmakers of Cinema Verite [truthful cinema] resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.”

“One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'”

“A single tourist must hurry, that he may not recoil upon himself: he must, from economy of time, money and temper, be ever upon the move and tire himself, that he may not tire of himself.”

“I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.”

“The value of World Heritage as a brand can be maximized to attract tourism, resulting in increased national income.”

“My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.”

“If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.”

“The sheep like nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.”

“Sustainable tourism development cannot be understood in isolation from the socio-political context in which it was born or from the spatial context in which it is adopted as a managerial philosophy.”

“I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.”