Best 98 quotes in «tourism quotes» category

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

It's a very good historical book about history.

Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.

Travel is a fools paradise.

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

A fulfilling and successful journey, begins with a great spirit of absolute determination.

Apparently, both the Portuguese and Spanish found a way out of their crisis. It's called cheating on tourists!

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

Every travel is blessed adventure.

Food is central to travelling and is a vivid entryway into another culture, but we do not have to literally leave home to “travel”. Movies, books, postcards, memories all take us, emotionally if not physically, to other places.

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?

I am tired and drunk and still hungry. He is full of steak and Coca-Cola and, presumably, energy: enough energy to cross the road and walk up the steps inside the tower of the cathedral, which I have never entered.

I define culinary tourism as the intentional, exploratory participation in the foodways of an other - participation including the consumption, preparation, and presentation of a food item, cuisine, meal system, or eating style considered to belong to a culinary system not one’s own.

In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.

In every voyage, be fully present.

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.

Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war.

Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the things he was seeing but of the photos he would take of them and of the people who would see those photos. The people who would know that he had participated in these triumphs.

Our thoughts are great place of voyage.