| There is no travel without
learning and no learning without travel.
- Oliver Hillel
Be prepared to be surprised.
- Harrison Owen, Open
Space Technology
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
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
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
When you hang out with Mexicans and you speak Spanish, you
are in a different México.
- Conversation
How do we make the hospitality industry more hospitable?
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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