If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.