Demand Quote by Arthur Erickson

“A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being…

— Roxanne Reid

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own…

— Albert Camus

“To become a tourist assumes a certain vulnerability, to wear the wrong shoes and not know the right times for meals. To drive too…

— Edmond Manning

“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed…

— David Foster Wallace

“The distinction often seems precarious. Both traveler and tourist are, by definition, separate from their environment. We like to think that the role we…

— Richard Todd

“He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas…

— Paul Bowles

To be a tourist is to escape accountability.

— Don DeLillo

“It simply makes its wishes known by transporting me to destinations”

— Whitney Dineen

A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon…

— Michael Lewis

“Another important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it…

— Paul Bowles

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

— Paul Fussell

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis