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The journey is the destination.

—Dan Eldon

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AdventureTourismTravel
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Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.

—Martin Parr

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BiggestIndustryTourism
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To vacation beside the beautiful waters of the beach and the beauty that surrounds it, is to discover tranquility from within.

—Wayne Chirisa

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Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.

—Irvine Welsh

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CapitalismShoppingTourism
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natives” tend to tourists like indentured servants with plastic, lifeless smiles. It’s not such a charming picture, is it? The truth is ugly, but so is ignorance or denial of such atrocities and pain.

—M.B. Dallocchio

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Today, specific travel attitudes and methodologies are as carefully calibrated as attire worn on a first date. Which is absurd. It’s absurd when it means visiting only the most famous cities and landmarks, strictly hewing...

—Doug Mack

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…the Northern Rockies region is a rapidly changing part of the United States. Ironically, in many areas today’s number-one threat is not clear-cutting, overgrazing, or destructive mining practices. It is something more insidious. Well-meaning people,...

—Michael McCoy

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I wore only black socks, because I had heard that white ones were the classic sign of the American tourist. Black ones though,- those’ll fool ’em. I supposed I hoped the European locals’ conversation would...

—Doug Mack

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This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy.

—Leslie Jamison

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David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in...

—Douglas Adams

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After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the...

—Lawrence Millman

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We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the sign started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted...

—Don DeLillo

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There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of...

—Sarah Vowell

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But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller....

—Jenny Diski

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See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

—Ray Bradbury

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I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities...

—Bill Bryson

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I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.

—Donna George

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There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange...

—Tim Dorsey

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Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don’t...

—Alison Lurie

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And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

—Donna George

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The tourists had money and we needed it; they only asked in return to be lied to and deceived and told that single most important thing, that they were safe, that their sense of security—national,...

—Richard Flanagan

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I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn’t hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren’t about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn’t ravenous just for a newspaper that had no...

—Christopher Hitchens

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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

—Gustave Flaubert

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TourismTravel
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As I see the world, there’s one element that’s even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It’s not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by...

—Tahir Shah

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Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

—Bruce Chatwin

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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

—Gustave Flaubert

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In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.

—Tahir Shah

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