Tourism

"David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali."

"China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained."

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

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

"In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors."

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing'."

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

"I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place."

"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."

"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?'"

"Island tourism contributes a significant proportion of Australia’s share of the World tourism market, mainly as a result of the attraction of the islands in and adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Sustainable tourism development in an island has thus become a significant goal for Australian tourism operators, regulators and tourists, as it is concerned with visitors experiencing natural environments without threatening their viability."

"Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin."

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

"Heritage tourism and destination weddings, including honeymoon trips, have become a key segment of the tourist industry, be it royal weddings in Rajasthan or beach weddings in Kerala or Goa, And they have come to mark a new topography of taste and status in the light of economic liberalization."

"Over the next fifty years, thousands of people will travel to Earth's orbit—and then to the Moon and beyond. Space travel and space tourism—will one day become almost as commonplace as flying to exotic destinations on our own planet."

"What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf."

"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, byproduct of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."

"To be a tourist is to escape accountability … Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event."

"First, the intertwined global discourses of ecology, heritage, and conservation circulate through tourist sites, focusing on specific attractions that have been assigned global importance. Indeed the significance of a site as the Taj has been partially disembodied from its local encoding and has become a symbol of globality. It is not merely a symbol of India now, but belongs to the world– as many commentators have noted – and accordingly is the responsibility of the world."

"The explorer seeks the undiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history, the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity. The genuine traveler is, or used to be, in the middle between the two extremes. If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates, retaining all he can of the excitement of the unpredictable attaching to exploration and fusing with the pleasure of knowing where one is belonging to tourism. ~"

"I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection."

"At the moment, money from Gombe tourism goes into one pot for Tanzania National Parks and it has to pay for the whole infrastructure of everything. But through our TACARE [community development] programme, we’ve benefited local people hugely."

"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."

"Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps."

"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."

"A "tour" is like a cocktail party. One "meets" everybody and knows no one. I doubt that what is ordinarily called "travel" really does broaden the mind any more than a cocktail party cultivates the soul. Perhaps the old-fashioned tourist who used to check off items in his Baedeker lest he forget that he had seen them was not legitimately so much a figure of fun as he was commonly made. At best, more sophisticated travelers usually know only the fact that they have seen something, not anything worth keeping which they got from the sight itself. Chartres is where the lunch was good; Lake Leman where we couldn't get a porter. To have lived in three places, perhaps to have lived in only one, is better than to have seen a hundred. I am a part, said Ulysses, of all that I have known—not of all that I have visited or "viewed.""

"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."

"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."

"That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen – fly me! Or Shakespeare or T.S. Elliot, or Hazlitt. All tickets to ride. To ride the jumbo jets."

"Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded."

"Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in did not bother them at all. They untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere."

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

"Cramped like sardines on the Queens, and sedated, The sittings all first, the roommates mismated, Veering through rapids in a vapid rapido To view the new moon from a ruin on the Lido, Or a sundown in London from a rundown Mercedes Then high-borne to Glyndebourne for Orféo in Hades, Embarrassed in Paris in Harris tweed, trying to Get to the next museum piece that they're flying to, Finding, in Frankfurt, that one indigestible Comestible makes them too ill for the festival, Humdrum conundrums, what's to become of them? Most will come home, but there will be some of them Subsiding like Lawrence in Florence, or crazily Ending up tending up shop in Fiesole."

"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 birth of the Indian nation state, with its programme of social and economic development, and the opening of the area to tourism means that the forces of consumerism and material advancement have now reached even the remotest villages of the region [Kashmir]."

"People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others. Why did it occur at this time and not another? Why? Whoever examines these areas discovers that they are tourism areas. Tourism areas are areas where the forbidden acts are widespread, as well as alcohol consumption, drug use, and acts of abomination. Whoever knows about tourism in our age knows this. These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism"."

"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."

"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."

"Presently, tourism is not a fringe activity but a mass and highly complicated field because of its economic, socio-cultural and political ramification. In the [past] early sight seeing, the seven wonders of the world were built with an eye to attracting tourists, particularly with those of an aristocratic, scholastic or artistic bent. The seven wonders were: Great Pyramid of Khufe, Pharos lighthouse at Alexandria, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Colossus of Rhodes, Statue of Zeus at Alexandria, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and Tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus. The early sightseeing tourists also went to Egypt and Greece to baths, shrines and seaside resorts and to see where Alexander the Great slept, Socrates lived, Ajax committed suicide and Achilles was buried, and to see the Pyramids, the Sphinx, and the valley of the Kings."

"For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief. What's interesting is the idea of a tourist randomly coming in and the experience they'll have."

"To opt for being a tourist is to choose the easiest but most contemptible path; ultimately it’s the most dangerous one, too, in a certain sense. You have to accept the built-in epithets that go with the part: they will think of you as a foolish tourist, an ignorant tourist, a vulgar tourist, a mere tourist. Do you want to be considered mere? Around you able to accept that? Is that really your preferred self-image—baffled, bewildered, led about by the nose? You'll sign up for packaged tours, you'll carry guidebooks and cameras, you'll go to the cathedral and the museums and the marketplace, and you'll remain always on the outside of things, seeing a great deal, experiencing nothing. What a waste! You will be diminished by the very traveling that you thought would expand you. Tourism hollows and parches you. All places become one: a hotel, a smiling, swarthy, sunglassed guide, a bus, a plaza, a fountain, a marketplace, a museum, a cathedral. You are transformed into a feeble shriveled thing made out of glued-together travel folders; you are naked but for your visas; the sum of your life’s adventures is a box of leftover small change from many indistinguishable lands."

"Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat."

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

"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."

"One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism."

"Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yosemite—but what has the reader done to me that I should persecute him? I will deliver him into the hands of less conscientious tourists and take his blessing. Let me be charitable, though I fail in all virtues else."

"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."

"Herodotus’s book made Giza famous in ancient Greece. When a list of the Seven Wonders of the World was created, ancient historians included the Great Pyramid.... Thousands of tourists from all over the world visit the Great Pyramid each year. It is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still exists. Tourism and time have taken a toll on the buildings at Giza."

"New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford."

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