Quotes About Tourism

Oh, no," said Mr. Fitzhugh blithely, immune to nuance. "We're here to see the ruins." Lady Vaughn looked innocently up at her husband. "Isn't that what you said, Vaughn?

confronted with a choice between the pollution of Maurras and the pollution of tourism, the intellectuals chose to remake the emptiness rather than abide with the many.

Kitsch and tourism are inseparable partners. Perhaps it is because, by definition, both are inauthentic.

Mexico, the land of pyramids and palaces, deserts and jungles, mountains and beaches, markets and gardens, boulevards and cobblestoned streets, broad plazas and hidden courtyards, is now known as a slaughter ground. And for what? So North Americans can get high.

Everywhere in Scotland, statistically speaking, June is your best bet in terms of when to visit.

The vote was between New York City and Disney World, and New York won.

my family's going to eat as long as anybody eats. What they're trying to do is starve you Conchs out of here so they can burn down the shacks and put up apartments and make this a tourist town. That's what I hear. I hear they're buying up lots, and then after the poor people are starved out and gone somewhere else to starve some more they're going to come in and make it into a beauty spot for tourists.

places that sold pixie-shittery to the tourists.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

You can't discuss Macau in any logical conversation. It will distort any reality.

China's domestic travel is increasing, and that's why we are building our teams here in China.

But the cable cars did not last long. They had disappeared from the streets of most cities by 1900 and from Chicago by 1906, and they remain to this day only in the single city of San Francisco, where they are primarily a tourist attraction.

All around the world, tourist boards advertise trips to Britain with images of the great castles and cathedrals that occupy the commanding heights of our landscape. They seem timeless and typically English. It is rarely mentioned that they are predominately French - proud monuments to the invasion that signals the end of England's 'dark age'.

La honradez es un lujo de los ricos. El comerciante siempre trata de obtener el mejor precio por su mercadería, por sí mismo y por su familia. Los turistas que vienen aquí andan en busca de recuerdos. Si quieren comprar auténticas antigüedades, lo menos que pueden hacer es adquirir algún conocimiento sobre el tema. Es responsabilidad de ellos.

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

Riding an elephant isn't as exotic or special as it looks on websites about jungles.

Was it all worth it? The King might have said that without his extravagant spending, the luxurious experiences for which his country is still celebrated would not have come into existence. The businessman might have added that without it, tourism would not be France's number-one industry today.

Today I walk from my place up Brunnenstrasse, past Frau Paul's tunnel to Bernauer Strasse where the Wall was. There is a new museum here. Its greatest exhibit is opposite: a full-size reconstructed section of the Wall, complete with freshly built and neatly raked death strip, for tourists.

No one is going to come here if it's a filthy city, if it's not a safe city.

I love the Queen. I love the whole fairy tale of the Royal Family; the Crown Jewels; Buckingham Palace; the tourist attraction. But really, is that what we've got a monarchy for? It's just for tourism, and then you survive and live off taxpayers' money?

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

The more stars in your itinerary, the less likely you are to find the real life of another country.

in the exotic simplicities of travel I was able to find a modicum of peace. But, in the end, tourism ceased to satisfy; curiosity began to niggle; Let's find out, I told myself, what really goes on around here.

Ladakh's Prakash, Paryavaran, Paryatan are a strength for both J&K and India.