Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. – Julie Burchill
Gloucester’s not some chi-chi tourist town. It’s a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place. – Israel Horovitz
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. – Bill Buford
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. – Ann Nocenti
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That’s always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat. – Curtis Stone
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. – Arthur Erickson
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. – Elliott Abrams
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I’m a tourist. I’m a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of. – Martin Parr
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn’t a tourist. – Edgar Bergen
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. – Katharine Lee Bates
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. – Russell Baker
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. – Richard Leakey
