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.
Paul FussellExploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.
Paul FussellTourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.
Paul FussellA guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.
Paul Fussell