Quotes on the topic: Tourist


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I've always believed that as actors, one of the biggest advantages of being in the film business - not just of being actors, but being in this industry - is the fact that you get to travel so much, and you get to see places that you probably would not if you went just as a tourist.


Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.


Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.


The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.


After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin.


After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.


I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.


Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and Israel.


Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.


China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.


Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.


One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'


Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.


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.


Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.


Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.


I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.


In fact, Tibet is one of the most popular European tourist attraction of asia.


There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.


The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.