Quotes about Tourism

This is about Dennis Tito, not the greater issue of space tourism. We are not going to let him be the wedge to drive us apart.

Bill Readdy

Strong tourism trends could help mitigate lighter local traffic.

Adrianne Shapira

The guides are the vivid representations of the tourism attractions.

Li Hong

A national park in Delaware will boost tourism and the state's economy, ... A national park here will put Delaware on the map and make the state a more attractive place to visit.

Tom Carper

We have been taking an active and pragmatic way to promote mutual tourism exchanges across the Taiwan Straits, and have made full preparations for the mainland citizens to visit Taiwan.

Dai Xiaofeng

The state is creating jobs at a prodigious rate. It has all the makings of a job-creating machine: good weather, low costs, a growing population, a strong tourism industry and little heavy manufacturing.

Ross Devol

Tourism is all we have. Nobody's coming. Things are sad.

Raul Hernandez

This is the beginning of a movement to encourage exercising, recreation and additional tourism into the city.

Shawn Rennecker

It isn't sexual tourism as we know it now -- they want to imagine they are having love affairs. (Ellen) is looking for a dream of being loved, caressed and looked after by someone who gives her no opposition, ... The Damned.

Charlotte Rampling

I would hope as part of the exhibit we can make sure our relationship (with France) becomes known by our citizens and the residents of Frenchtown, ... The tourism and pure beauty of this exhibit make it enough to have in our community. But the spin-offs make it even better.

John Marks

Other issues include affordable housing. The board has addressed many quality-of-life issues but there are no easy solutions. What drives the economy is tourism. Service folks have to be able to afford to live here.

Chris Hardee

I don?t know what they're thinking of the tourism. I mean, is somebody gonna come stay here just to go to a slot place? No, it's gonna be all your local people going in there that are poor, that want the big one.

Becky Lindemann

These initiatives will go along way to ensuring that this region is well placed to reap the full benefits of the tourism growth enjoyed by the island as a whole.

John O'donoghue

It's something that is very important or can be of value to bringing additional convention business or different additional tourism.

Jennifer Mahlendorf

Adjusted for the unexpectedly high loss in source market France, earnings by tourism rose 17 per cent. That is why I am basically satisfied with the development of tourism.

Michael Frenzel

We understand and respect Florida is a tourism-based economy, ... We don't want to unnecessarily alarm anyone, but we think visitors should know what the law is on the books starting Saturday.

Peter Hamm

There's no better time. There's only going to be an increase in tourism in the next 20 years as the (baby) boomers retire. And prison museums are very, very popular among older people. We think you should get started.

Chris Becicka

There will be an initial negative impact on tourism based on the fear of flying as well as on people's fear of being in what they could call a target area.

Joseph West

At the end of the day, does it really destroy investor confidence, does it really result in Indonesia being less able to service its debt, does it totally discourage tourism? It's much less of an impact than that.

Desmond Soon

That's what we have to offer and we, as a tourism bureau, have to capitalize on that.

Robert Uguccioni

You've got to figure out what you do best as a community. We sometimes get enthralled with the idea of high-tech. But it's all about innovation. And tourism can be very innovative. Health care can be very innovative.

Doug Henton

The name of the game for us is 'heads in beds make the cash registers ring' and that's the reason why we're doing this. Polk County has a very strong tourism industry and we're always trying to further develop that industry.

Tom Patton

For the community to have a year-round tourism season, it needs to bring in business other than leisure travelers. If you wanted a longer or stretched season, you need those conference facilities. That's one way to do it.

Marq Lipton

Every week people were treated to different images of Hawaii, and that made people want to go and visit Hawaii. So consequently, it was a boom for Hawaiian tourism.

Luis Reyes

Everyday we work with existing businesses, business startups, business relocation, tourism and legislation, and many issues that could have a major impact on your business if not dealt with early on. Our job as your chamber is to help create and protect an economically sound community so you can focus on growing your business.

Mike Byers

While the USGS presence and efforts in Alaska are significant, they are clearly not adequate to meet the growing needs of an area that will see major growth in tourism and resource development.

Charles Groat

Now we're starting to enter into a new phase, which may be characterized as private-sector or space tourism.

Roger Launius

The transition of North Carolina's economy from textiles and tobacco to tourism and technology.

John Cox

Some smaller businesses are likely to close their doors. Most operators have just got their vehicles back from Hurricane Ivan and are right on the verge of recovering. Tourism is still not at full strength. People are going to struggle to afford this, and then they're going to do something else.

Kenrick Webster

Southwest Airlines recognizes that tourism and convention business has been, and will continue to be, a major stimulus for the New Orleans economy. We hope that other corporations and organizations also will choose New Orleans as a destination for their conventions and conferences.

Colleen C. Barrett

We decided in 2002 to aim to generate $100m in tourism receipts by 2010 by creating high-value and low-environmental impact experiences.

Rosette Rugamba

This has always been about the fact that the Michigan wine industry has been so successful that (distributors) consider it competition. But there really isn't anything else out there creating that kind of interest for tourism.

Rick Coates

The world has realized that India has many things to offer, not only from a tourism point of view, but economic, science and technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and information technology points of view. India is increasingly recognized as a destination with many facets.

Gopalakrishnan Venkataraman

We are right to think of the tourism opportunities.

Peter Marboe

As we've seen the rise of cultural, environmental and educational tourism in adventure travel, we've also seen the rise of female participation. Part of that is due to changes in women's attitudes about their own abilities. As more women participate in such things as fly-fishing, whitewater kayaking and bicycling, we're also seeing concurrent growth in those areas in adventure travel.

Chris Doyle

India is an extremely young country and has an average age of 26 - this is driving a lot of new trends. At the same time as the drop in average age, there has been an economic boom and huge wealth creation. You have this young, rich population with nothing to spend their money on. There is a huge groundswell towards adventure tourism. Skiing is going to take off.

John Sims

This was in fact before the establishment of the embassy last year, and proved to have been very useful for us from a tourism perspective, also in terms of Jamaica's understanding of the market and also from some indications of cultural activities and cultural levels.

David Shields

Our data confirm that India is rapidly becoming a more mainstream tourism destination, with tourist receipts expected to grow significantly over the next few years.

Paul Dowling

This is a time when tourism businesses in regional areas are feeling the impact of a declining domestic tourism market due to factors outside of our control.

Peter Abbott

The personal appropriation of clichés is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

Serge Daney

We drop off on the weekends, except we do get the sports tourism, so that helps. But we are all staying busy the first of the week, and it's business travel.

Cindy Smith

Northwest is an economic engine in the region and critically important to tourism and convention business here.

Renee Monforton

This is a terrific opportunity to shine a spotlight on important issues surrounding Black Hills National Forest, including forest health and wildfire prevention. Ensuring appropriate forest policy is essential not only to preserving South Dakota's wonderful natural resources, but to our tourism and economy as well.

Stephanie Herseth

It's building up the tourism industry, the hospitality industry, the restaurant industry to diversify the economy.

Aris Melissaratos

I think this is a very low-impact form of tourism. We think this does not have the same impact as building a resort.

Robert Kritzman

It could be a very important tourism element for Franklin County. Frankfort's downtown is in jeopardy.

Bill Cull

I feel this kind of incidents will certainly hit tourism in the state as tourists, especially foreigners take these matters very seriously.

Karan Singh

Historically, we literally have not seen an impact with gas prices. Tourism has actually gone up over the last few summers.

Charlie Clark

The travel and tourism industry worldwide is a $6 trillion economy.

Vincent Wolfington

Due to the prosperity of our tourism industry recently, cultural organizations, which are also growing, are seeing a portion of that prosperity.

Rena Blades

There is strong support from the Europe, Asian and Australian markets and reflects the fact that most travelers realize that the tsunami was a one-[time] event and, in fact, want to contribute to the region's recovery by supporting tourism.

Peter Hook

The business of New Orleans is tourism, and New Orleans has got to get back to business. There's all this talk about bringing people back to New Orleans, but without tourism there won't be any jobs for them to come home to.

David Rubenstein

I think we must do everything in our power to extract practical benefits from that disaster, and extreme tourism in the exclusion zone is one of the measures.

Vladimir Litvin

Just as important as the music itself are to create community pride, encourage and support the arts in Fulton County and promote tourism.

Dennis Crawford

We're not anticipating any sustained impact on tourism as long as gas prices come down to a reasonable level.

Brad Dean

Given that the Commonwealth Games are going to be held in India in 2010, we think the interest in sports tourism that will be generated in India will flow on to the Olympic Games in 2012.

Bernard Donoghue

It's going to affect tourism in the short term, and the long term.

Darrell Bryan

There are many, many different stories. This could be a fabulous historic site. With the nice concentration of Fort Laramie, the Oregon Trail ruts and the Sunrise Mine, I think this could be a really good heritage tourism area. There is enough here for a special trip to these places for tourists.

Mary Humstone

It has affected tourism, absolutely. It's very difficult to get in here if you want to fly, and because of that some people will opt to go to other ski resorts. And choose different places to vacation.

Bobby Lieb

Growth and tourism go hand-in-hand. We get a lot of people who stop in as tourists, love the area and decide they want to live here.

Staca Hiatt

The tourism infrastructure is fully restored; all attractions are up and running.

Andy Newman

Winter is typically our slowest tourism season, so to have this caliber of event occur during the off-season was a tremendous boost for local businesses.

Kari Sliva

We take it for granted that crime continues to go down, the economy is strong and tourism has grown. Those things weren't assured four years ago.

Tim Tompkins

Our position is that as they grow bigger and bigger, and their tourism destinations get closer and closer, you have to question how much of a draw they will have.

Shannon Burns

The signal is nothing is sacred off of Florida, and a lot of this is secretarial discretion. Interior can do it themselves, and so there is growing concern that the next secretary will determine the fate of Florida's tourism economy.

Richard Charter

The expected recovery of the tourism industry in 2002 simply did not occur.

Juan Somavia

Before we strike any deal, we discuss it with our partners. This was the situation here as well. This is the only tourism deal we intend to do.

Keith Edelman

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 of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.

Bill Bryson

[Air travel has opened the world to the masses in a way hardly imagined only decades ago.] In addition to Americans traveling a lot more, we also see the world getting a lot smaller, ... International tourism is growing at an even faster rate than domestic travel.

Suzanne Cook

We've never done anything like this before. Our mission has always been to bring tourism to New York City. But the time is right for tourists to begin returning to New Orleans, and New Yorkers are always trendsetters.

Cristyne L. Nicholas

Domestic tourism is under pressure from fuel prices, shorter holidays and other activities for the leisure dollar.

Peter Abbott

After 1906, San Francisco loses its dominance in the West. Industry fled, and what it became was a poor imitation of itself through tourism. It takes that image of being a gay, giddy city and trades on that image.

Philip Fradkin

The timing for this survey couldn't be better. It makes our case for what we all know in the (tourism) industry.

Arlene White

We've made a commitment to quality tourism and to attract spring break would be the worst thing.

Paul Politis

To have this award is just an awesome, positive event for the city, ... It helps to bring the communities together and promote tourism at the same time.

Barbara Kelly

We're appalled, ... This city is built on tourism, and we're their last priority.

Jill Johnson

The mix is very different than what it was before, as it was at least 80 percent tourism and convention business. Now it is one-third tourism, one-third relief and recovery and one-third families coming back and forth.

Michelle Duffourc

Our mission is to promote travel and tourism to the area, but there's less of a reason to come here if we don't do a good job of preserving our culture.

Penn Dameron

And it has had an impact on economic relations with China, ... It has cost Canada in terms of trade business and tourism business.

David Matas

On the Russian side, of course, they have in mind space tourism and propose a certain level of comfort; but the main objective is science.

Alain Fournier

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a landmark project that is part of the government's drive to develop the country's western regions. It will benefit the development of Tibet's communications and tourism, and promote economic and cultural exchanges between Tibet and other parts of China.

Jia Qinglin

I would like to see a workshop between the county, the chamber, the tourism department and representatives from the tourism business community before the advisory board is put together.

David Palmer

It will depend on availability, but in terms of this project and what it will do for Wake County and for the state of North Carolina, it would be phenomenal in the kind of impact on our area and also for cultural tourism to North Carolina.

Jennifer Weiss

Of course the incident will attract the attention of the Cricket World Cup security personnel. What an incident like this also does is to undermine all the hard work that we do over a long period to promote this country's tourism product.

Cathy Hughes

The foreign company was planning to invest US$318,647, but only US$70,206 had been materialized so far, because of tight competition with tourism investors in NTB and Bali.

Stanis Tefa

This could be the single most important event that will take place in our region this year. The tourism industry's physical as well as moral support will be incalculable.

Stephen Richer

It had a huge [economic] impact. The effect on the tourism and exhibition industry was significant.

Margaret Pederson

Sport Tourism Association is going to provide catalogues which will contain useful information about the ski resorts of Iran, including expenses, accommodations, hotels and other facilities. These catalogues will be completed with the cooperation of Iranian Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization and will be sent to the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf region within 20 days.

Saeed Moradi

We're promoting fall tourism. It's one of the slower times of the year. We're focusing on different groups, and one of the key groups we're looking at are couples without children, because children go back to school in the fall.

Danielle Courtenay

Being the best-kept secret is not a good strategy when you're in the tourism industry.

David Kenney

There are some similar aspects to all these communities. There is a robust economy in a couple of key areas -- tourism is a key driver as well as professional services. We view this as yet another external validation of the strength of the Florida economy and, therefore, the strength of our strategic plan to develop the economy.

Lisa Nason

We're trying to get the word out. Together with the Caribbean Tourism Organization, we're notifying travel agents.

Brian Major

He was a real pioneer of Orlando and Central Florida tourism.

Bill Peeper

Our state tourism and hospitality industry professionals and the quality of our product offerings are among the finest anywhere. By providing specialized training and encouraging leadership engagement, the conference serves as a catalyst for increased synergies, innovative thinking and the continued strength and vibrancy of our industry.

Todd Davidson

We were estimating about $700,000, so we're quite a bit over what we thought we were going to get. We all know what happened to the tourism industry after Sept. 11. Since then, we've been building up again. Now we're almost at pre-Sept. 11 levels.

Diane Jones

The really positive thing long-term is, the core of our infrastructure of the $5 billion to $8 billion tourism industry remained intact, ... As odd as it may sound right now, we are optimistic that this recovery is not only going to happen, its going to happen well and we're going to have a great city going again.

Stephen Perry

Tourism dollars are the best kind of dollars.

Gene Mccombs

The presence of fish and angling demonstrates a healthy environment -our strategy outlines how we will meet new challenges such as climate change and invasive species while increasing tourism, encouraging greater participation in fishing and continuing to create a better quality of life for local communities.

Dafydd Evans

And the tourism value is unbelievable, ... You can't put a dollar value on that.

Betty Morrison

Golf has become a tourism tool.

David Spencer