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

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

Nadine Gordimer
1923-, South African Author
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Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

Regina Nadelson
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Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives -- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -- with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists stage.

Daniel J. Boorstin
1914-, American Historian
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Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist
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When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.

John Steinbeck
1902-1968, American Author
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Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection.

Edward Streeter
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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
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http://www.travelblogs.com/articles/the-difference-between-tourists-and-travellers

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/vacationplanner/greentravel/articles/rt-4


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26839980/


There are several quotes that reference this ridiculous “distinction,” including G.K. Chesterton’s “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see,” and Paul Theroux’s famous line, “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” But I think Evelyn Waugh was being more honest when he said, “‘we’ are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.” And Rolf Potts must have been reading my mind when he articulated my opinion on this topic:


http://theadventuretravelcompany.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/tourist-vs-traveller/



http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1713772&show=pdf