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Quotes About Tourism

Every day, Anh Hoâng was shoved into the ground by the weight of the vanity cases of French wives. They, with their government clerk husbands, were touring their colony, forgetting who they were, forgetting that they had to cross oceans to move up a class.
~ Monique Truong
Mexico is a safe country.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
~ Lenny Bruce
But mob violence, like tourism, is a kind of communion. By its special magic a large number of lonely souls, however heterogeneous, can share the common property of opposition to what is.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
the Mount Rushmore KOA complex near
~ C.J. Box
Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.
~ Irvine Welsh
There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.
~ Mona Eltahawy
You could establish along the zones of the coast of the Caribbean in Honduras gorgeous resorts zones. If we could help them do that, they could start rebuilding their economy.
~ Ron Johnson
Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.
~ Michael Frome
In Britain I love spending time at the St. James's, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower on Cadogan Place, and the Mayfair Hotel. We've got some spectacular hotels tucked away in London, but because I live there, I don't get to spend as much time in them as I probably would like to.
~ Colin Salmon
The gay community has had a sometimes tumultuous relationship with non-queer people coming to their shows because it was tourism, like using the queer spaces as a form of comic relief or entertainment.
~ Courtney Act
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
~ Susan Sontag
You look very disapproving," he said lightly. "That's because I am disapproving," she answered. Not the faintest trace of a smile. Giacomo sighed. Probably not his type. "Well, Juliet's House does attract such romantic young ladies," he said. "It seems a shame to disappoint them." "Your work for the tourism board must keep you busy." Was there a sarcastic edge to her voice? Definitely not his type.
~ Suzanne Harper
People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.
~ Francisco Costa
Los Angeles is great for partying and also for its sights and sounds.
~ Prabhas
Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.
~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
It's just hard to go from seeing elephants living their lives in the wild and not being bothered by humans, to seeing them put in a bunker every night and then being forced to take assholes like us on rides.
~ Chelsea Handler
Many years later, Martha revisited the same Caribbean islands. She found yachts and rubber Zodiac dinghies, plastic bottles on the seabed, casinos and boutiques in the sleepy ports, and great bald patches of land, stripped for development, where once all had been jungle and green. It was, she wrote sadly, a world lost. Returning
~ Caroline Moorehead
By damaging the potential for wildlife tourism in Scotland, the deer and grouse industries could be destroying more employment than they generate.
~ George Monbiot
I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.
~ J.D. Robb
The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.
~ Sonny Perdue
If Thoreau were alive today he would have full confirmation of his fears. Instant information is instantly obsolete. Only the most banal ideas can successfully cross great distances at the speed of light. And anything that travels very far very fast is scarcely worth transporting, especially the tourist.
~ Ted Simon
Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.
~ James MacArthur