What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

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

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

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.

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