Quotes About Tourism

Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The 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.

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

Europe doesn't matter anymore. You know, Europe is basically a giant museum.

Cash avoids group tours for a reason: they turn even the most authentic experiences into a Disneyland ride. It's unavoidable, he

25 million tourist trips to foreign countries in 1960; 250 million in 1970; 536 million in 1995; 922 million in 2008; 1 billion in 2012.

The concept of tourism has changed with industrialization, yes, and standardization," said Harms. "You don't see any difference anymore between one place and another. It's easier to build that way and provide standard service, but how can you preserve a sense of place and culture? The complexity of the tourism industry works against sustainability.

Tourism cannot be outsourced." Philippe Maud'hui of ATOUT France made that declaration in his crowded office on the Place de Catalogne, surrounded by stacks of documents and data showing how much tourism contributes to the economy and how. It is so obvious it was startling.

Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.

Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people.

I think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here.

Israel is incredible, it throws the best party ever and people should come.

their time was devoted to sightseeing (which she filmed on her movie camera), they also

souvenir tablecloths bearing images of the Acropolis,

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

Herzl had said that attracting the Jewish diaspora would be a slow process, but after a half century as a nation, according to the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, only 17 percent of American Jews have ever visited Israel.

The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:

Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered and explosion of global tourism

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

Tourism Minister Zoheir Garranah has been quoted as saying that hassle is a bigger threat to Egypt's tourism industry than the bombs of militants, and has acknowledged that many tourists, frustrated at being accosted by touts, leave the country "with a bitter taste and vowing never to return." Even for an Arabic speaker, peeling them off can prove a Herculean task, the last resort being a threat of violence.

Growing numbers of Western gay sex tourists have discovered that Luxor is billed as a gay hotspot by gay-themed international Web sites. Ostensibly promoting the alien Western concept of "gay rights" in a country where only a tiny, Westernized, urban "gay" elite can or would ever want to relate to it, the Web sites concentrate more heavily on providing up-to-the-minute information to Western gay men looking for paid sex with locals.

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

Some people go to L.A. just to see recognizable people. There are tour buses. But in New York, everyone seems a little less into that.