Tourism Quotes

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. (Guy Debord)
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in. View quote
Junot Diaz
Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs. View quote
Ed Rendell
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! View quote
David Lodge
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue. View quote
Werner Herzog
People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others.... These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism".... Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?! View quote
Yusuf Qaradawi
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. View quote
Mason Cooley
Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product. View quote
James Surowiecki
Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world. View quote
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty. View quote
Chiranjeevi
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. (Ed Rendell)
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners. View quote
Frans Lanting
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting. View quote
Gavin Newsom
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. View quote
Jonathan Dee
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy. View quote
Karen Hughes
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties. View quote
Leslie Jamison
The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation. View quote
Leslie Jamison
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it. View quote
Martin Parr
We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law. View quote
Paul Cellucci
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. View quote
Robert Runcie
Tourism is an ugly business, it's not fit work for human beings. It's hosting parasites. (Kim Stanley Robinson)
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. View quote
Benigno Aquino III
One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that. View quote
Robert Hughes
Traditional Chinese characters carry both cultural significance and artistic values and promoting these characters has nothing to do with any political stance. It's very important for us not to sacrifice the characters for tourism. View quote
Ma Ying-jeou
One problem is the destruction of the habitat, and the second is this constant catching of elephants for training, for tourism or logging. And this training that we are doing is the most brutal, primitive and stupid in the whole world. View quote
Maneka Gandhi