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"Tourism is like fire. You can cook your
dinner on it; or it can burn your house down." (Anon.)
"Tourism is like treading water hoping that no one pulls the
plug." (Jean-Claude Baumgarten, President, World Travel
& Tourism Council)
"Tourism is
like a tiger with two tails. On the one hand it offers massive employment and boosts the economy. On the other
hand, if not controlled, it can steal away from the
inhabitants of a country most of what makes their country worth living in and worth visiting." (Sir Lawrence Van
der Post)
"Tourism is like a huge monstrous beast that's
arisen from somewhere and is charging ahead
very powerfully, without anyone having accurately described
what it looks like or where it's going."
(Ralf Buckley)
"Tourism is like
waiting in one place and hoping
to see a herd of buffalo stampede by. Maybe it'll happen,
maybe it won't ... the tourist economy is basically undependable." (Brian Mahoney)
"Tourism
is like being a
little bit pregnant. It’s fun getting there – but it poses
increasing problems as the child grows and threatens to take
over the parent."
(Richard Butler)
"Tourism is like a lit stick
of dynamite ... it's just ready to explode." (George
Ryan)
"Tourism is like liberty.
Only when you lose it, do you see how important it was." (Jean-Claude Baumgarten, President, World Travel
& Tourism Council)
"Tourism is like a bridge. It
connects our countries and it can connect people to each
other." (Karen Chen)
"Tourism is like a
secularised or unconscious form of pilgrimage, and that the
attitude of the pilgrim, the "intention to learn", should be
consciously reinscribed into tourism." (Rupert
Sheldrake)
"Tourism is like a dream
factory, which oversimplifies reality. The potential
visitors are attracted by inspiring dreams that are no more
than stereotypes of reality. These are the raw materials
which economic players use for the development and marketing
of the final tourism product. Products are designs and
brands are created in order to stimulate these dreams and
create demand." (Peter Keller)
"Tourism is like a community
holding a mirror up to itself and then deciding what it
wants to be." (Hal Rothman)
"Tourism is like weather,
always hovering in the background but powerful enough to
shape the way life proceeds." (Sherry Simpson)
"Tourism is like seasoning on
food. Some can make an improvement, a little more can make
it perfect. A lot ruins it and makes a good thing
disgusting." (Anon.)
"Tourism is like an iceberg.
It is easy to describe the part that stands out from
the water but very hard to be precise about exactly
what lies beneath." (Simonsen, Jørgensen and Robbins)
"Tourism is like a gun."
(Alex Garland)
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