Tourism Quotes

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

— Don DeLillo

I'm not a good tourist, I don't like tourism.

— Joe Sacco

We are concerned about benefit tourism.

— Chris Grayling

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

— Bruce Chatwin

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads…

— Rosalia de Castro

This is the great RIFT VALLEY

— Mrthrill

Tourism will always survive here in Queensland.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

Travel is a fools paradise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

My goal is to make tourism an economic driver and bring jobs to West Virginia.

— Jim Justice

“I often don't know where my Luggage is, that's what being a tourist is all about.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Henry James

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

— Prince Philip

Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

— Dave Barry

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

— Fran Lebowitz

The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.

— Mohammed Morsi

“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no…

— Ray Bradbury

The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Arthur Erickson

People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what…

— Ariel Sharon

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy…

— Jay Weatherill

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are…

— Bill Bryson

“I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.”

— Donna George Storey

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

— Henry David Thoreau

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of…

— James R. Thompson

That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at…

— David Lodge

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested…

— Henry David Thoreau

“As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them…

— Tahir Shah

Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn…

— Fran Lebowitz

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics,…

— Jonathan Dee

The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist…

— Nadine Gordimer

I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man…

— Christopher Hitchens

I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational…

— Charles Landry

A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a…

— Milan Kundera

I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. I’ve just come back from Costa Rica and they…

— Colin Morgan

“There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle…

— Tim Dorsey

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which…

— Paul Fussell

“I wore only black socks, because I had heard that white ones were the classic sign of the American tourist. Black ones…

— Doug Mack