Tourism Quotes - Page 2

• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Travel, Adventure

  "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

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• 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.

  Chiranjeevi

  Powerful, Growth, India

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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Venus De Milo, Society

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 01, 2012

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• If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Anchors, Arriving

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

  Serge Daney

  Cliche, Spread, Appropriation

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• 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.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Jobs, Islands, Years

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• It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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• Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.274, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Society, Tourists

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.318, Univ of California Press

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• Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Enjoy

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.156, Courier Corporation

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Travel, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.52, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Important, Branches, Bikinis

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• Tourism is the march of stupidity.

  Don DeLillo

  Stupidity, March

  1982 James Axton. The Names, ch.3.

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• Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

  Henry James

  Travel, Venice, Visitors

  Henry James (1995). “Italian Hours”, p.43, Penguin

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• In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Home, Men

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 302 (17 April 1778)

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• A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Travel, Home

  Oliver Goldsmith (1809). “The Citizen of the World; Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher: Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country”, p.24

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• Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Journey, Paradise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.278, Library of America

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• Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.

  Richard Branson

  Marine, Government, Issues

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Travel, Adventure, Moon

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2014). “She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  George Eliot

  Running, Time, Travel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

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