107 Quotes About Tourism

Le tourisme, se ramène fondamentalement au loisir d'aller voir ce qui est devenu banal.

Times Square—loud and bright twenty-four hours a day, bearing a more stunning light than the Statue of Liberty ever could, a Disneyfied Lucifer leading New York’s damned to a fire ever-building, ever-burning.

Ils prirent un bateau pour traverser le lac. L'autre rive était suisse. Laurie fut assez déçue ; la Suisse ne différait en rien de l'Autriche. L'architecture y était la même, et les gens parlaient allemand.

When tourism was connected to beautification, with wildflower trails, wildflower festivals, great gardens, we pretty much took the word beauty out of the sole province of the "ladies at a tea party" to the province of the business community.

Tourists who come to Nepal look at terraced fields and see their beauty but remain blind to the hard labour they extract from tillers.

Și cred că sunt într-un gând cu Relu, că asta știu de-alde turistache ăștia de vin pe la noi. Calea Victoriei și Cișmigiu. Să vină-n pula mea la un grătar în Sălăjan sau să-i alerge lumea de bani pe la capătu' lui 32, că acolo tot București e. Numai design scandinav și burgere vegane au în cap, vai pula lor.

And tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.

By now it was afternoon. Ted began to walk, still dazed, until he found himself among a skein of backstreets so narrow they felt dark. He passed churches blistered with grime, moldering palazzi whose squalid interiors leaked sounds of wailing cats and children. Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time.” (p. 212)

The differentiations of the modern world have the same structure as tourist attractions: elements dislodged from their original natural, historical and cultural contexts fit together with other such displaced or modernized things and people. The differentiations are the attractions