Tourism quotes
91 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."
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"If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion."
"The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy."
"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."
"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."
"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."
"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."
"Travel is a fools paradise."
"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places."
"Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better."
"You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom."
"Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither."
"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
"The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach."
"I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back."
"One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that."
"I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business."
"We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all."
