“The tourist is a great leveler. From the point of view of a tourist, there are no classes.”— Paul Fussell
“To be a tourist is to be a kind of infant, to be faced with a world that is illegible.”— Donna Leon
“Tourism is our number one industry, but we cannot rely on it alone. We must diversify our economy.”— Linda Lingle
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”— Susan Sontag
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.”— Daniel J. Boorstin
“He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time... Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home... the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years.”— Paul Bowles
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.”— Bill Bryson
“Tourism is the engine of our economy, and we must ensure it is sustainable and benefits our local communities.”— Ed Case
“The tourist is a spoiler of the landscape. He is the one who destroys what he is looking for.”— Hans Magnus Enzensberger
“We have the best food in the world, we have the best entertainment in the world, and we have the best hotels in the world.”— Oscar Goodman
“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”— John Gould