Travel

"However, most tourism [in some national parks] is managed by entrepreneurs based in the regional capital, with few benefits accruing to local people. At the request of park authorities, in the mid-1990s The Mountain Institute (TMI) helped local people to share in tourism benefits sustainably by developing village based, small scale accommodation, guiding and food services adjoining the park."

"Some countries have established special laws enhancing the protection afforded to World Heritage. For example, the relationship between managing agency and the tourism sector is often crucial. An defective partnership can bring mutual benefits whereas a poor relationship can result in misunderstanding and negative impact."

"The global growth in tourism is well documented and today tourism is often described as the world's 'largest' industry. An increasing and significant proportion of this industry is centred on nature and associated cultural heritage."

"At its best tourism can provide an outstanding opportunity to increase the understanding of natural and cultural heritage, as envisaged by the World Cultural Heritage Convention while providing long term financial support to site management, local communities and tourism providers."

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

"Contribution to World Heritage objectives, Tourism development and visitor activities associated with World Heritage properties must contribute to and must not damage the protection, conservation, presentation and transmission of their heritage values. Tourism should also generate sustainable socio-economic development and equitably contribute tangible as well as intangible benefits to local and regional communities in ways that are consistent with the conservation of the properties."

"Site management capacity Management systems for World Heritage properties should have sufficient skills, capacities and resources available when planning tourism infrastructure and managing visitor activity to ensure the .protection and presentation of their identified heritage values and respect for local communities."

"Relevant public agencies and site management should apply a sufficient proportion of the revenue derived from r tourism and visitor activity to ensure the protection, conservation and management of their heritage values."

"Tourism infrastructure development and visitor activity associated with World Heritage properties should contribute to local community empowerment and socio-economic development in an effective and equitable manner."

"The basic materials for tourism industry are culture, heritages, natural vegetation, beaches, parks, monuments and sculptures, etc., which ...can be exploited for the betterment of the Economy."

"Tourism is a major social phenomenon motivated by the natural urge of every human being for new experience, adventure, education and entertainment. The motivations for tourism also include social, religious and business interests."

"The word “Tourism” is derived from the term ‘TOUR’ means “a journey from place to place or time to be spent at a station or rambling excursion."

"The term [Tourism] [used] for all those inter-connected processes, especially economic ones that come in play through influx, temporary residence and dispersal of strangers into within and from a certain district, country or state."

"Tourism is one of the important components of service sector. It considered as a significant and vital instrument for economic development and employment generation, particularly in remote and backward areas. It is the largest service industry globally in terms of gross revenue as well as Foreign Exchange Earnings (FEE)"

"Tourism stimulates other economic sectors through its backward and forward linkages and cross-sectoral synergies with other sectors such as agriculture, horticulture, poultry, handicrafts, transport, construction, etc. It leads to additional income, employment generation and poverty alleviation. It enhances the national and state revenues, business receipts, employment, wages and salary income; buoyancy in Central, State and local tax receipts can contribute towards overall socio-economic improvement and accelerated growth in the economy. It is multi-sectoral activity characterized by multiple services provided by a range of suppliers include airlines, surface transport, hotels, basic infrastructure and facilitation systems, etc. Thus, the growth of tourism cannot be attained unless the related sectors are addressed simultaneously."

"An important feature of Indian tourism industry is its contribution to national integration and preservation of natural as well as cultural environments and enrichment of the social and cultural lives of people. Over 382 million domestic tourists visiting different parts of the country every year return with a better understanding of the people living in different regions of the country. They have a better appreciation of the cultural diversity of India. It also encourages preservation of monuments and heritage properties and helps the survival of art forms, crafts and culture."

"Tourism has gained importance as the fastest growing industry in the world, particularly because of multifarious benefits, it ensures to the destinations, to the tourists themselves to the global geo-political environment as a whole. During the past a number of studies have been conducted to evaluate the role and performance of tourism."

"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."

"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?'"

"Let observation with extended observation observe extensively."

"For always roaming with a hungry heart, Much have I seen and known."

"Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."

"The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins."

"All human race from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue."

"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 "sightseeing.""

"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt."

"If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go."

"Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race."

"I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye."

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."

"They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind."

"The traveller sees what he sees, the tripper sees what he has come to see."

"After 1870, sending a family member across the ocean to work became a possibility open to all save the very poorest of European households. ...The production and trade globalization of the late 1800s was fueled by one hundred million people leaving their continent of origin to live and work elsewhere. Never before or since have we seen such a rapid proportional redistribution of humanity around the globe."

"Travelling can hardly be without a continual current of disappointment, if the main object is not the enlargement of one’s general life, so as to make even weariness and annoyances enter into the sum of benefit."

"In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"I have been a stranger in a strange land."

"One of the best ways to build up a global citizenship identity is through travel. …The more you can travel, the more global you are becoming as a human being. …Rather than relying on second-hand accounts or media representations, travellers can engage directly with people from different backgrounds, fostering mutual respect. …Travel provides individuals with opportunities to develop and strengthen global networks. International travel often results in lasting friendships and connections that span continents."

"It is not enough to simply visit a country, for that does not mean successful travelling, nor imply that one has seen the land. The aim of the traveller should be to be at the right time at the right place. Spring is apt to be cold and dreary in Japan. There are many days of mist and rain, yet the wanderer who can control his steps makes a big mistake in losing the joys of the cherry season."

"Go far—too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;— One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain, The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still."

"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof."

"Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm…She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage."