Inspiring Tourism Quotes to Fuel Your Passion

Tourism encompasses visiting destinations for leisure, business, or cultural exploration. It includes activities like sightseeing, adventure sports, and attending conferences. Various types of tourism exist, including leisure, cultural, and ecotourism, each with its focus. While tourism brings economic benefits and cultural exchange, it can also harm the environment and local communities if not managed sustainably. Sustainable tourism practices aim to minimize negative impacts while maximizing benefits for local economies and ecosystems. This involves initiatives such as eco-friendly accommodations and community-based tourism projects, promoting responsible travel and environmental conservation.

Tourism Quotes

1. “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
— Henry Miller

2. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.”
— Ray Bradbury

3. “The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.”
— Mason Cooley

4. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”
— Peter Høeg

5. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”
— Shirley MacLaine

6. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
— Gustave Flaubert

7. “The travel and tourism industry, it’s just a huge part of our economy.”
— Karen Hughes

8. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
— Benjamin Disraeli

9. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”
— Lawrence Block

10. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
— Samuel Johnson

11. “The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.”
— Charles Horton Cooley

12. “Tourism is a mortal sin.”
— Werner Herzog

13. “In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
— Robert Runcie

14. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”
— Chief Seattle

15. “There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.”
— Graham Lowe

16. “Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.”
— James Thurber

17. “The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.”
— Martin Parr

18. “The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.”
— Sam Ewing

19. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
— Anais Nin

20. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
— John Steinbeck

21. “Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.”
— Susan Sontag

22. “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
— Oliver Goldsmith

23. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson

24. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
— Mark Twain

25. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
— Susan Sontag

26. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton

27. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.”
— Rosalia de Castro

28. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton

29. “Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.”
— Chiranjeevi

30. “Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.”
— D. H. Lawrence

31. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
— Oscar Wilde

32. “I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”
— Bill Bryson

33. “If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
— Henry Miller

34. “The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.”
— Serge Daney

35. “Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.”
— Benigno Aquino III

36. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
— Herman Melville

37. “Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
— Annie Dillard

38. “You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist’s custom.”
— Mark Twain

39. “Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.”
— Henry David Thoreau

40. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
— Aldous Huxley

41. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
— Henry David Thoreau

42. “One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.”
— Shimon Peres

43. “Tourism is the march of stupidity.”
— Don DeLillo

44. “Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.”
— Henry James

45. “In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”
— Samuel Johnson

46. “A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.”
— Oliver Goldsmith

47. “Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

48. “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

49. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher

50. “Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans – which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.”
— George Eliot