Tourism Quotes

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  • I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. I’ve just come back from Costa Rica and they are really big on eco tourism. They have lots of reserves, and they are really into protecting wildlife. I visited a reserve called Cabo Blanco. You walk into the reserve and there are capucine monkeys swinging from the trees and sloths. I am big into nature, and seeing animals in their natural habitats. I love it.

    Thinking   Animal   Tree  
  • Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

  • I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
  • Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.

    Country   Sex   Children  
  • Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

    Thinking   Dubai   Cities  
  • Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

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

    War   History   Tourism  
    'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 3.
  • The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.

    Powerful   Gun   Years  
  • The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

    Wise   Travel   Men  
  • A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

    Travel   Journey   Men  
    "Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection".
  • The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism.

    Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.178, MIT Press
  • Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.

  • Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient-rich sewage and fertilizer run-off. They are damaged by irresponsible tourism and are being severely stressed by the warming of the world's oceans. Each of these pressures is bad enough in itself, but together, the cocktail is proving lethal.

    Running   Ocean   Animal  
  • We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

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

    Life   Travel   Journey  
  • I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

  • In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

    Travel   People   Age  
  • Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.

    Jobs   Islands   Years  
  • Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

    Funny   Humor   Order  
    Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.184, Canongate Books
  • The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

    Life   Travel   Real  
    "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America".
  • If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

    "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.
  • Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

  • Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  • I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

    Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK
  • Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly deadly substance, threatens the remaining life there and in the waters which flow from there. Forestry departments spray the surviving forests with powerful insecticides to encourage tourism by people seeking a few days or weeks away from the cities where the air hangs heavy with sulphur and carbon oxides.

    Brother   Powerful   Air  
  • Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

  • 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.

    Running   Travel   Home  
    "Neither Here Nor There". Book by Bill Bryson, 2012.
  • I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

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

    Long   Tourism   Tourists  
    "Death of Baron De Kalb" by Benjamin Franklin Ells, 1849.
  • 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.

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