| A lot of tourists have
a consumer attitude -- what can I get, instead of what can I
learn. We have to put aside our own cultural biases and learn
as much as possible from the people we visit. I find that if
you stay long enough, learn the language, you get a sense of
who locals are as people.
- Clay Hubbs, publisher of Transitions
Abroad, quoted in Rethinking
Tourism
We can't wait for miracles to happen. If there are problems
that have to be solved, if we want our lives to be better, then
we have to do something for ourselves. If we're not taking action
to make our life better, if we're not walking, if our feet are
not moving, then there's no footprint for people to follow.
- Oliver Mtukudzi, World
Music Central
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered
out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise
yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce
your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the
premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has
its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the
world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of
it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's
possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and
in hope.
- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Life is how you make it. The quality of life is measured by
the kinds of steps you take as you walk through it. The footprint
is a representation of who we are, where we are and where we're
going. If you happen to see a footprint in the road, it means
someone has been there before you, and there's something to
be learned from that person's life and that person's story.
Tsimba Itsoka. There is no footprint without the foot.
- Oliver Mtukudzi, World
Music Central
You'll never reach the end of the road while you're traveling
with me.
- Crowded House, Don't Dream It's Over
There is no travel without learning and no learning without
travel.
- Michel Serres
He who travels far will often see things far from what he believed
was the truth.
- Herman Hesse
If you live every day of your life as if you are on a wonderful
journey through an endlessly fascinating, strange land -- you
are.
- Michael Kaye
A tourism study showed that 79% of respondents did not want
to damage the places they visited. This inspired what might
be the only effective strategy to further sustainability in
travel. Identify the other 21%, effectively market vacations
to them and when they go, arrange for them to meet with an accident.
- Tour operator
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death.
Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has
taught me.
- Katherine
Mansfield
Throughout the world, among different cultures and classes,
people are looking for self-determination. The world we are
born into and the society we know measures humans in terms of
their economic worth. Human potential is enormous and largely
unrealized.
- Deborah McLaren, Rethinking
Tourism
When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the
act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the
day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even
understand the language the people speak. So you are like a
child just out of the womb. You begin to attach much more importance
to the things around you because your survival depends on them.
You begin to be more accessible to others because they may be
able to help you in difficult situations. And you accept any
small favor from the gods with great delight, as if it were
an episode you would remember for the rest of your life.
- Paulo Coelho
He who would travel happily must travel light.
- Antoine de Saint-Exaspery
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
To learn about the world through first-hand, one-on-one meetings
with people from around the world is a valuable human experience.
We discover universal themes of human culture. We become more
aware that no matter where we live we are all confronting similar
situations as we ultimately become a global community.
- Deborah McLaren, Rethinking
Tourism and Ecotravel: The Paving of Paradise and How You Can
Stop It
People don’t take trips. Trips take people.
- John Steinbeck
Take a long walk. If you can't take a long walk, take a short
one.
- Conversation
Viel Welt für wenig Geld. (A lot of the world
for little money)
- Popular expression, Germany
You should wear with pride the scars on your skin. They're
a map of the adventures and the places you've been.
- Poi
Dog Pondering, U-Li-La-Lu
This thirst for stimulation causes individuals to move from
one 'trip' to another, collect all the psychotechnologies on
the market, and become true 'consciousness junkies.' These people
hanker for excitement, change and 'altered states of consciousness'
and if mere variety of experience -- rather than its assimilation
-- were the measure of maturity, they would be the most evolved
people around.
- Piero Ferrucci, what
we may be
There's no off season for a real traveller.
- Carol Patterson, Reinventure
Costa Rica has a unique history of innovative practices and
decisions that have resulted in positive outcomes for its people
and its environment.
- Beatrice Blake
Preparation is one of the most important, yet most overlooked,
factors of world travel in the jet-age.
- Marcus Endicott, Vagabond
Globetrotting
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
- Kurt Vonnegut
There is no travel without learning and no learning without
travel.
- Michel
Serres (cited frequently by Oliver Hillel)
If an ass goes traveling, he will not come home a horse.
- Thomas
Fuller
You cannot have ecotourists without tourists.
- Conversation
Irresponsible travel to me is where the focus is entirely on
the visitor, to the neglect and detriment of the host and their
community.
- Jane Crouch, Ecoclub
Interview
Para mí sólo recorrer los caminos que tienen
corazón, cualquier camino que tenga corazón. (I
only trek the paths that have heart, whatever path that has
heart.)
- Carlos Castaneda, The
Teachings of Don Juan
I will go to my grave claiming that the less you spend, the
more you enjoy, the more authentic the experience it is, the
more profound.
- Arthur Frommer, interviewed in A Sense of Place
How do we make the hospitality industry more hospitable?
- Conversation
It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
- Popular saying
Tourists are very fickle beasts, even the perception that a
destination is risky will lead to a marked decrease in tourist
traffic.
- Howard Rosenzweig, quoted on WorldMapper
In most countries tourism is 'statistically invisible' and
usually only the most obvious sectors or those exclusively devoted
to tourists are enumerated in official tourism data. Inevitably,
this tends to be the accommodation sector and, perhaps cafes
and restaurants. Yet the tourism industry is far larger than
this. Tourists also spend money directly on recreational facilities,
tourist attractions, shops and local services. In turn, these
have indirect effects on agriculture, wholesaling and manufacturing.
- Williams and Shaw, cited in Community
Development for Tourism
When you hang out with Mexicans and you speak Spanish, you
are in a different México.
- Conversation
The main mistake made by pro-tourist planners is that they
see tourism only in traditional economic terms as a new kind
of industry.
- Dean MacCannell
Stand in the place where you live.
- R.E.M
Slow down, you move too fast.
- Simon and Garfunkel
Most of my colleagues strongly imply that a professed interest
in tourism constitutes little more than a clever ploy to pass
off one's vacations as work. I would not deny that the study
of tourism is great fun, but must a subject be boring to be
worthy of study?
- Pierre Van Den Berghe, The
Quest for the Other
What happens in Vegas,
stays in Vegas.
- Slogan
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel
for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased
- Book of Daniel, 12:4
Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing
that you always take with yourself with you? The reason which
set you wandering is ever at your heels.
- Socrates
Don't drive angry.
- Groundhog
Day
You have visitors in your house, not tourists nor travelers.
- Hugo Antonio Santiago
Perhaps it's in our blood, maybe it's just in our history,
but surely it's in the American vein to head out for some other
place when home becomes intolerable, or merely when the distant
side of the beyond seems a lure we can't resist.
- William Least Heat Moon, Blue
Highways
I have a reason to believe, we all will be received in Graceland.
- Paul Simon, Graceland
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