Tourism famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.
-- Andy Serkis -
People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what we are doing here... My tourism guidebook is the Bible.
-- Ariel Sharon -
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.
-- Arthur Frommer -
Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.
-- Audrey Meadows -
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 -
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 -
Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.
-- David Walker -
After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
-- Dorothy Dunnett -
Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
-- Ed Rendell -
And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.
-- Ed Rendell -
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
-- Edward Gibbon -
Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.
-- Edward Norton -
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.
-- Frans Lanting -
The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.
-- Garry Kasparov -
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting
-- Gavin Newsom -
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
-- Guy Debord -
From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.
-- Hal Rothman -
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
-- Henry James -
Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?
-- James Nicoll -
We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.
-- James R. Thompson -
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
-- John Lithgow -
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.
-- Junot Diaz -
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
-- Karen Hughes -
Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.
-- Kenny Guinn -
Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.
-- Mark Foley -
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
-- Martin Parr -
Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
-- Martin Parr -
The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.
-- Mohammed Morsi -
'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.
-- Narendra Modi -
If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.
-- Prince Philip -
I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.
-- Prince William -
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
-- Richard Leakey -
The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
-- Serge Daney -
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 -
The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.
-- Sonny Perdue -
I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.
-- Tim Roth -
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
-- Walt Whitman -
In addition to tourism, it is essential to employ other ways to benefit more from the use of natural resources than from their destruction - from wildlife breeding operations to - yes - hunting of abundant species where viable.
-- David Jeremiah Barron -
The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism.
-- Raila Odinga -
The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.
-- Martin Jacques -
We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.
-- John Scott
