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Quotes About Economy

The government should spend more time on promoting tourism in Sydney.
~ Harry Triguboff
While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.
~ Arancha Gonzalez
Tourism is so important to our state.
~ Jim Justice
Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.
~ Narendra Modi
Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.
~ Ahmed Zewail
Tourism is a very very important sector for us. Hospitality is an important sector for us. Civil Aviation is an important sector for us. In a country like India where they contribute to the GDP, not only GDP but millions of jobs have been provided through these sectors.
~ Anurag Thakur
Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.
~ Jochen Zeitz
My vision is to make Seoul the center of East Asia in terms of economy, culture and tourism.
~ Chung Mong-joon
The Canadian power line is going to industrialize Patagonia, and it is going to discount the one economic card the region has to play, which is the tourism.
~ Douglas Tompkins
From Mangaluru to Karwar, we have a 300-km stretch of sea. Tourism fuels Goa's economy and job creation. If they can do it, why can't we do it here?
~ H. D. Kumaraswamy
Tourism is our No. 1 industry in South Carolina.
~ Jeff Duncan
We have decided to diversify agriculture; we decided to develop our tourism sector. We have decided to develop our mining sector. So these are some of the things we're telling Malawians: we say this is what we need to do in order for us to get out of this total dependence on aid.
~ Joyce Banda
One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.
~ Shimon Peres
Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
What I'm trying to do as an Australian is to say to people, 'You've got to go back out to Australia,' because there are rural communities that really rely upon tourism to continue to go.
~ John Torode
Tourism will always survive here in Queensland.
~ Annastacia Palaszczuk
It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.
~ Anthony Albanese
Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.
~ Robert Zoellick
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.
~ Frans Lanting
The U.S., like any other country, allows tourists into its borders in order to make money off them, and there's nothing wrong with that. Why give out tourist visas if you're not going to let tourists be tourists?
~ Francisco Goldman
If the Chinese economy can be opened so that currencies are convertible, Chinese tourists can take money and go see the world. Chinese businessmen can go and buy property in the U.S. and France and every place. All of a sudden, it's just going to be a blossoming global economy. I think it's going to be good for everybody.
~ Robert F. Engle
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
~ Corrine Brown
Visas represent one bureaucratic obstacle, so to say and, if removed, might increase the inflow of Russian money into the Czech economy. And not only Russian money, but Russian tourists, Russian entrepreneurs and so on.
~ Milos Zeman