Tourism

Tourism is the travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family business purposes, usually of a limited duration. Tourism is commonly associated with trans-national travel, but may also refer to travel to another location within the same country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.


 * CONTENT : A - F, G - L , M - R , S - Z , See also , External links

Quotes

 * Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author

A - F

 * David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali.
 * Douglas Adams in: Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine Last Chance to See, Random House Publishing Group, 21 September 2011, p. 17


 * China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.
 * Damon Albarn in: Scott Plagenhoef Interviews Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, Pitchfork,,26  January 2009


 * Business tourism is rising in Africa. Demand from international civil servants and businessman is growing strongly.
 * Mossadeck Bally in: Olivier Monnier Mali’s Azalai Hotels Plans $165 Million for West Africa Growth, Bloomberg, 30 January 2014


 * Filmmakers of Cinema Verite [truthful cinema] resemble tourists who take pictures amid ancient ruins of facts.
 * Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak in: Dot Dot Dot 11, Princeton Architectural Press, 1 March 2006, p. 39


 * In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors.
 * Julie Burchill in: Patriotism is for reactionaries … nationalism is the way forward, The Guardian, 8 September 2012


 * The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing'.
 * Daniel J. Boorstin in: Dean MacCannell The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, University of California Press, 1976, p. 104


 * Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
 * A. Whitney Brown in: The New York Times Theater Reviews, New York Times., 1987, p. 201


 * 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.
 * Bill Bryson in: Neither Here Nor There, Doubleday Canada, 25 September 2012, p. 204


 * A single tourist must hurry, that he may not recoil upon himself: he must, from economy of time, money and temper, be ever upon the move and tire himself, that he may not tire of himself.
 * John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington, Rides Round Britain, ed. Donald Adamson, pub. Folio Society, 1996, in "A Tour to the North", p. 301


 * One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'
 * David Cameron in: An interview with David Cameron, The Economist,, 31 March 2010


 * Island tourism contributes a significant proportion of Australia’s share of the World tourism market, mainly as a result of the attraction of the islands in and adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Sustainable tourism development in an island has thus become a  significant goal for Australian tourism operators, regulators and tourists, as it is concerned with visitors experiencing natural environments without threatening their viability.
 * Jack Carlsen, Richard Butler in:Island Tourism: Sustainable Perspectives, CABI, 2011, p. 27-28


 * Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.
 * Bruce Chatwin in: Iain Sinclair Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of London on the Eve of the Olympics, Macmillan, 17 July 2012, p. 340


 * The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
 * Gilbert K. Chesterton in: Basil Norman Sparks Journey - A Traveller's Guide to Leadership, Basil Sparks, 2008, p. 3


 * Heritage tourism and destination weddings, including honeymoon trips, have become a key segment of the tourist industry, be it royal weddings in Rajasthan or beach weddings in Kerala or Goa, And they have come to mark a new topography of taste and status in the light of economic liberalization.
 * Chhaparia in: Christiane Brosius India’s Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity, Routledge, Dec 31, 2013, p. 279


 * Over the next fifty years, thousands of people will travel to Earth's orbit—and then to the Moon and beyond. Space travel and space tourism—will one day become almost as commonplace as flying to exotic destinations on our own planet.
 * Arthur C. Clarke in:Free Inquiry, Volumes 28-29, Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism, 2008, p. 1


 * What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.
 * Alice Cooper quoted in: Successful 2013 Highland Games Season Ends, Northeast Donnachaidh Doings,  p. 6


 * Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, byproduct of the circulation of commodities, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
 * Guy Debord in: Alan Blum Imaginative Structure of the City, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 7 May 2003, p. 65


 * To be a tourist is to escape accountability … Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event.
 * Don DeLillo in: Archive: 11 June – 17 June 2007: Writing the American way,The Guardian, 15 June 2007


 * First, the intertwined global discourses of ecology, heritage, and conservation circulate through tourist sites, focusing on specific attractions that have been assigned global importance. Indeed the significance of a site as the Taj has been partially disembodied from its local encoding and has become a symbol of globality. It is not merely a symbol of India now, but belongs to the world– as many commentators have noted – and accordingly is the responsibility of the world.
 * Tim Edensor in: Mimi Sheller, John Urry Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play, Psychology Press, 2004, p. 112


 * The explorer seeks the undiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history, the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity. The genuine traveler is, or used to be, in the middle between the two extremes. If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates, retaining all he can of the excitement of the unpredictable attaching to exploration and fusing with the pleasure of knowing where one is belonging to tourism. ~
 * Paul Fussell in: Kimberley J. Healey The Modernist Traveler: French Detours, 1900-1930, U of Nebraska Press, 2003, p. 22

G - L



 * I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.
 * John Galliano in: Liz Jones Girl Least Likely To: 30 years of fashion, fasting and Fleet Street, Simon and Schuster, 4 July 2013, p. 123


 * At the moment, money from Gombe tourism goes into one pot for Tanzania National Parks and it has to pay for the whole infrastructure of everything. But through our TACARE [community development] programme, we’ve benefited local people hugely.
 * The thing is about tourism and research is that they can both focus attention on the place and help to preserve it. It’s tourism involvement with the mountain gorillas that saved them.
 * During the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s, people on both sides were being told, “Don’t touch the gorillas”, as it was the second biggest foreign exchange earner after tea in the country. So both sides hoped to win and continue exploiting gorillas.
 * So the government can see the value of tourism, but the danger is they over-exploit it. They say, “We’re getting all this money for [gorilla-tracking groups of] six people, now we’ll let it be 12”, and they get more money for tours, so they make it 20. That’s the danger; that they end up killing what people have come to see.


 * Jane Goodall Wanderlust #6 (2009)


 * If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.
 * Rebecca Hall in: Rebecca Hall is Transcontinental, Interview Magazine.


 * Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
 * Carl Honore in: The perfect time to slow down, The Guardian, 23 July 2008


 * My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
 * Ryszard Kapuscinski in: Shannon Hurst Lane The Definitive Guide to Travel Writing, Lulu.com, 2007, p. 24


 * A "tour" is like a cocktail party. One "meets" everybody and knows no one. I doubt that what is ordinarily called "travel" really does broaden the mind any more than a cocktail party cultivates the soul. Perhaps the old-fashioned tourist who used to check off items in his Baedeker lest he forget that he had seen them was not legitimately so much a figure of fun as he was commonly made. At best, more sophisticated travelers usually know only the fact that they have seen something, not anything worth keeping which they got from the sight itself. Chartres is where the lunch was good; Lake Leman where we couldn't get a porter. To have lived in three places, perhaps to have lived in only one, is better than to have seen a hundred. I am a part, said Ulysses, of all that I have known—not of all that I have visited or "viewed."
 * Joseph Wood Krutch,


 * The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
 * Max Lerner in: Deborah McHugh The Quotable Traveler, Globe Pequot, 2001, p. 162


 * Sustainable tourism development cannot be understood in isolation from the socio-political context in which it was born or from the spatial context in which it is adopted as a managerial philosophy.
 * Liburd (2010) in: Jack Carlsen, Richard Butler “Island Tourism: Sustainable Perspectives”, p. 103
 * That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen – fly me! Or Shakespeare or T.S. Elliot, or Hazlitt. All tickets to ride. To ride the jumbo jets.
 * David Lodge (1993) quoted in: The Universities We Need: Higher Education After Dearing, Routledge, 13 September 2013, p. 73


 * Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.
 * Alison Lurie The Last Resort: A Novel, Macmillan (1 June 1999), p. 23

M - R

 * Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in did not bother them at all. They untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere.
 * Russell Means in: Brent Lovelock, Kirsten Lovelock The Ethics of Tourism: Critical and Applied Perspectives, Routledge, 26 Jun 26, Routledge, 26 June 2013, p. 144


 * The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
 * Robert Morley quoted in: Robert Andrews The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press, 1989, p. 35


 * I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
 * Anais Nin in: The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 5 1947-1955: Vol. 5 (1947-1955), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 26 Mach 1975, p. 272


 * The birth of the Indian nation state, with its programme of social and economic development, and the opening of the area to tourism means that the forces of consumerism and material advancement have now reached even the remotest villages of the region [Kashmir].
 * Fernanda Pirie in: Peace and Conflict in Ladakh: The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order, BRILL, 2007, p. 1`


 * People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others. Why did it occur at this time and not another? Why? Whoever examines these areas discovers that they are tourism areas. Tourism areas are areas where the forbidden acts are widespread, as well as alcohol consumption, drug use, and acts of abomination. Whoever knows about tourism in our age knows this. These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism".
 * Sheik Al-Qaradhawi in: Tsunami Reactions (9) - Sheik Al-Qaradhawi: Disaster a Punishment for Sex Tourism, The Middle East Media Research Institute, January 2005


 * The sheep like nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.
 * Diana Quick in: Caroline Rees Diana Quick's Travelling Life, The Telegraph, 7 September 2013


 * I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.
 * Jonathan Raban in: Rebecca Brown, Mary Jane Knecht Looking Together: Writers on Art, University of Washington Press, 30 April 2009, p. 16


 * Presently, tourism is not a fringe activity but a mass and highly complicated field because of its economic, socio-cultural and political ramification. In the [past] early sight seeing, the seven wonders of the world were built with an eye to attracting tourists, particularly with those of an aristocratic, scholastic or artistic bent. The seven wonders were: Great Pyramid of Khufe, Pharos lighthouse at Alexandria, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Colossus of Rhodes, Statue of Zeus at Alexandria, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and Tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus. The early sightseeing tourists also went to Egypt and Greece to baths, shrines and seaside resorts and to see where Alexander the Great slept, Socrates lived, Ajax committed suicide and Achilles was buried, and to see the Pyramids, the Sphinx, and the valley of the Kings.
 * A. K. Raina in: Ecology, Wildlife and Tourism Development: Principles, Practices and Strategies, Sarup & Sons, 1 January 2005, p. 75

S - Z

 * For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief. What's interesting is the idea of a tourist randomly coming in and the experience they'll have.
 * Tino Sehgal in: Charlotte Higgins "Tino Sehgal's Turbine Hall commission: 'Attention is what I work with'", The Guardian'' (16 July 2012)


 * To opt for being a tourist is to choose the easiest but most contemptible path; ultimately it’s the most dangerous one, too, in a certain sense. You have to accept the built-in epithets that go with the part: they will think of you as a foolish tourist, an ignorant tourist, a vulgar tourist, a mere tourist. Do you want to be considered mere? Around you able to accept that? Is that really your preferred self-image—baffled, bewildered, led about by the nose? You'll sign up for packaged tours, you'll carry guidebooks and cameras, you'll go to the cathedral and the museums and the marketplace, and you'll remain always on the outside of things, seeing a great deal, experiencing nothing. What a waste! You will be diminished by the very traveling that you thought would expand you. Tourism hollows and parches you. All places become one: a hotel, a smiling, swarthy, sunglassed guide, a bus, a plaza, a fountain, a marketplace, a museum, a cathedral. You are transformed into a feeble shriveled thing made out of glued-together travel folders; you are naked but for your visas; the sum of your life’s adventures is a box of leftover small change from many indistinguishable lands.
 * Robert Silverberg, Trips (1974); Originally published in Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology edited by Edward L. Ferman and Barry N. Malzberg; reprinted in The Collected Stories Volume 4: Trips 1972-73, ISBN 978-1-596-06212-2, p. 269


 * Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
 * Curtis Stone in: Nexum Ediciones 42 phrasal verbs esenciales, Nexum Ediciones, 30 January 2014, p. 16


 * Essentially the camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
 * Susan Sontag in: Bruce Robbins Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, NYU Press, 1 January 1999, p. 2


 * I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.
 * Paul Theroux in: Author Paul Theroux on his final African journey, USA TODAY, 23 May 2013


 * One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
 * From the Riding in the Tigris quoted in: Paul Theroux The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road, McClelland & Stewart, 12 July 2011, p. 226


 * Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yosemite—but what has the reader done to me that I should persecute him? I will deliver him into the hands of less conscientious tourists and take his blessing. Let me be charitable, though I fail in all virtues else.
 * Mark Twain, p. 334 (1st edition, 1872, American Publishing Company)


 * 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.
 * Prince William in: Kate Petrella Royal Wisdom: The Most Daft, Cheeky, and Brilliant Quotes from Britain's Royal Family, Adams Media, 18 March 2011, p. 65


 * Herodotus’s book made Giza famous in ancient Greece. When a list of the Seven Wonders of the World was created, ancient historians included the Great Pyramid.... Thousands of tourists from all over the world visit the Great Pyramid each year. It is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still exists. Tourism and time have taken a toll on the buildings at Giza.
 * Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods in: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Twenty-First Century Books, 1 September 2008, p. ,15


 * New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
 * Rafael Yglesias in: Author Interview, Simon & Schuster

Managing Natural World Heritage
UNESCO, ICOMOS, IUCN, ICCROM Managing Natural World Heritage, UNESCO, 30 June 2012
 * The value of World Heritage as a brand can be maximized to attract tourism, resulting in increased national income.
 * In: P.7


 * However, most tourism [in some national parks] is managed by entrepreneurs based in the regional capital, with few benefits accruing to local people. At the request of park authorities, in the mid-1990s The Mountain Institute (TMI) helped local people to share in tourism benefits sustainably by developing village based, small scale accommodation, guiding and food services adjoining the park.
 * In: P.32


 * Some countries have established special laws enhancing the protection afforded to World Heritage. For example, the relationship between managing agency and the tourism sector is often crucial. An defective partnership can bring mutual benefits whereas a poor relationship can result in misunderstanding and negative impact.
 * In: P.55


 * The global growth in tourism is well documented and today tourism is often described as the world's 'largest' industry. An increasing and significant proportion of this industry is centred on nature and associated cultural heritage.
 * In: P.67


 * At its best tourism can provide an outstanding opportunity to increase the understanding of natural and cultural heritage, as envisaged by the World Cultural Heritage Convention while providing long term financial support to site management, local communities and tourism providers.
 * In: P.67


 * The starting point for any tourism-related planning should always be consistent with the overall management system and the management plan.
 * In: P.68


 * Contribution to World Heritage objectives, Tourism development and visitor activities associated with World Heritage properties must contribute to and must not damage the protection, conservation, presentation and transmission of their heritage values. Tourism should also generate sustainable socio-economic development and equitably contribute tangible as well as intangible benefits to local and regional communities in ways that are consistent with the conservation of the properties.
 * In: P.94


 * Site management capacity Management systems for World Heritage properties should have sufficient skills, capacities and resources available when planning tourism infrastructure and managing visitor activity to ensure the .protection and presentation of their identified heritage values and respect for local communities.


 * Relevant public agencies and site management should apply a sufficient proportion of the revenue derived from r tourism and visitor activity to ensure the protection, conservation and management of their heritage values.
 * In: P.95
 * Tourism infrastructure development and visitor activity associated with World Heritage properties should contribute to local community empowerment and socio-economic development in an effective and equitable manner.
 * In: P.95

Evaluative Study of Tourism Industry in Puducherry, U.T. Of India
Dr. R.Uma Devi, in Evaluative Study of Tourism Industry in Puducherry, U.T. Of India, International Journal of Innovative Research & Development
 * The basic materials for tourism industry are culture, heritages, natural vegetation, beaches, parks, monuments and sculptures, etc., which ...can be exploited for the betterment of the Economy.
 * In: p. 81


 * Tourism is a major social phenomenon motivated by the natural urge of every human being for new experience, adventure, education and entertainment. The motivations for tourism also include social, religious and business interests.
 * In: p. 81


 * The word “Tourism” is derived from the term ‘TOUR’ means “a journey from place to place or time to be spent at a station or rambling excursion.
 * In: p. 81


 * The term [Tourism] [used] for all those inter-connected processes, especially economic ones that come in play through influx, temporary residence and dispersal of strangers into within and from a certain district, country or state.
 * Herman V.S.S. Hoffen, p. 81


 * Tourism is one of the important components of service sector. It considered as a significant and vital instrument for economic development and employment generation, particularly in remote and backward areas. It is the largest service industry globally in terms of gross revenue as well as Foreign Exchange Earnings (FEE)
 * In: p. 81


 * Tourism stimulates other economic sectors through its backward and forward linkages and cross-sectoral synergies with other sectors such as agriculture, horticulture, poultry, handicrafts, transport, construction, etc. It leads to additional income, employment generation and poverty alleviation. It enhances the national and state revenues, business receipts, employment, wages and salary income; buoyancy in Central, State and local tax receipts can contribute towards overall socio-economic improvement and accelerated growth in the economy. It is multi-sectoral activity characterized by multiple services provided by a range of suppliers include airlines, surface transport, hotels, basic infrastructure and facilitation systems, etc. Thus, the growth of tourism cannot be attained unless the related sectors are addressed simultaneously.
 * In: p. 81


 * An important feature of Indian tourism industry is its contribution to national integration and preservation of natural as well as cultural environments and enrichment of the social and cultural lives of people. Over 382 million domestic tourists visiting different parts of the country every year return with a better understanding of the people living in different regions of the country. They have a better appreciation of the cultural diversity of India. It also encourages preservation of monuments and heritage properties and helps the survival of art forms, crafts and culture.
 * In: p. 81-82


 * Tourism has gained importance as the fastest growing industry in the world, particularly because of multifarious benefits, it ensures to the destinations, to the tourists themselves to the global geo-political environment as a whole. During the past a number of studies have been conducted to evaluate the role and performance of tourism.
 * In: p. 83