Tourism Quotes

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

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism.

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

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.

People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what we are doing here... My tourism guidebook is the Bible.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

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

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

And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

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

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

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

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.

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

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

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

When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

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

Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.

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

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

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.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

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.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

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

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.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.

Tourism is a mortal sin.

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

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.

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.