4. Mass Tourism

About Travelling

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The average tourist wants to travel to a place where there are no tourists." - Sam Ewing, "The National Enquirer", 16. Juni 1994, translated

"The tourist destroys what he is looking for, by finding it." - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated

"When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you're visiting." - Clint Borgen

"Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more." - Arab proverb

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." - Samuel Johnson, Letter to Hester Thrale, 21 September 1773

"The world is a book, those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Tourists are grasshoppers on wheels." - Roberto Benigni, translated

"We do not need a Third World War. We have capitalism, communism and tourism." - Oliver Hassencamp, translated

"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled." - Mohammed

Tasks:
1. Select 3 quotes which you think most accurately describe any aspect of tourism. Explain the meaning behind them.
2. To what extent do you agree with the captions on the cartoon?