When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. — Banksy
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa. — Dave Barry
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. — Dagobert D. Runes
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. — David Sedaris
Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin. — Bruce Chatwin
Ukraine announced plans to open Chernobyl, their nuclear disaster site, to tourists. They say it's just like Disneyland, except the 6-foot mouse is real. — Conan O'Brien
Travelers are an enthusiastic lot. They do not mind any inconvenience as long as they have something to see. — R.K. Narayan
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. — Russell Baker
No one comes to New York and says 'We've got to check out Times Square and Spa Castle!' — Joe Gatto
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. — James Henry Breasted
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. — James H. Breasted
A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. — Josh Billings
Tourist Destination Quotes
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
Tourists - have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking." — David Letterman
Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists. — Mary Webb
You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's. — Brian Setzer
Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move. — Gary Hustwit
I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?' — Edgerrin James
Gratitude is the best medicine. It heals your mind, you body and your spirit. And attracts more things to be grateful for.
With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year. — Jon Porter
Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends. — Tahir Shah
The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there. — Garry Kasparov
Tourism Quotes
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences.
It will bring financial inclusion, investment, tourism, innovation and economic development for our country. — Nayib Bukele
China is feeling the effects of the crisis, but less than the U.S. And when you consider that Chinese tourists are now buying as much as Japanese tourists, when there were virtually none just 10 years ago, I’m not so worried. — Bernard Arnault
Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Chief Seattle
We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists, environmental specialists, historians and tourists. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
There's a new tourist born every minute. — James Murray
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. — Susan Sontag
Travel And Tourism Quotes
We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law. — Paul Cellucci
Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners. — Saadi Shirazi
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism. — Freya Stark
Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind. — Rick Steves
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. — Bill Bryson
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream. — Ray Bradbury
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality. — Samuel Johnson
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. — Charles Dudley Warner
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. — Anna Quindlen
Tourism Industry Quotes
Hospitality doesn’t belong just in the hospitality industry—restaurants, hotels, cruise lines, tourism—but in every industry, in every company, in every transaction. — Jeff Lawson
Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed. — Henning Mankell
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. — Jim Fowler
Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs. — Ed Rendell
It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia. — Anthony Albanese
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
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy. — Karen Hughes
Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy. — Stockwell Day
Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud. — Dave Barry
In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century. — Hal Rothman
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years. — David Ogilvy
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury. — Orhan Pamuk
Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people. — Eddy de Clercq
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect. — Mary McCarthy
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
You might be a redneck if your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town. — Jeff Foxworthy
A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles. — Paul Reiser
The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer an audience for serious Broadway plays. . . . Perhaps we should acknowledge that, having lost its traditional audience, Broadway can never again be a home for new plays. — Robert Brustein
One day I went to the manager and I asked him whether his model was working and he said, "Well, haven't you seen how many customers we have in this store?" And yes indeed I had. I mean it was definitely attracting a lot of customers, even attracting tourist buses that would land up at this store and people would go through the store and marvel at all the options, even sometimes take photographs of the various aisles. — Sheena Iyengar
Bourbon Street is like playing, a tourist, you know? It's just a tourist attraction ... those musicians on Bourbon Street, they play all day. They might start at 12 noon and end at 3 in the morning, like, it's like sets, like a job. You go play, take a break, play again, take a break, then later on that night, the club gets busier, then you play some more. There's pride. They're a group of great musicians- and they're holding it down. — Troy Andrews
Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free. — Simon Hoggart
Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here. — Fran Lebowitz
I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go. — Richard Sherman
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls. — Max Brooks
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of tourist attraction quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about tourist attraction to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of tourist attraction quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
