Journalism Quote by Ted Conover

“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

“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

“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

“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

[A]nother 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

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they…

— Elias Canetti

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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

There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has…

— Adam Gopnik

One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy…

— Freya Stark

“The overdressed traveller betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveller knows that the novel world about her serves…

— Gregory Maguire

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton