{"quotes":[{"text":"We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.","author":"Paul Cellucci","tags":["law","tourism","will "],"id":4253,"author_id":"Paul+Cellucci"},{"text":"He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures,' said Rincewind shortly. 'Do what the madman says and he will give you gold.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["photography","tourism","translation"],"id":5241,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.","author":"Bill Bryson","tags":["creature-comforts","home","tourism"],"id":5810,"author_id":"Bill+Bryson"},{"text":"Gone were the days where December locked coastal towns down in the grips of labour. Although it was still mostly true, things had changed ; Cape Town had adapted its rhythm to the influx of foreign feet. Tourism was a year -round thing and no longer limited to the summer. Most local tourists still flocked here during this time, but Capetonians didn’t seem too bothered to serve at their beck and call. Sam thought of Cape Town as France , and the rest of the country as England. The city, although relying heavily on local tourism – feigned ignorance when it came to the contribution of these outsiders to its wellbeing.","author":"Adelheid Manefeldt","tags":["cape-town","change","city","coastal-towns","december-holidays","provinces","south-africa","tourism","travelling"],"id":10560,"author_id":"Adelheid+Manefeldt"},{"text":"Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.","author":"Irvine Welsh","tags":["capitalism","shopping","tourism"],"id":14913,"author_id":"Irvine+Welsh"},{"text":"...The Northern Rockies region is a rapidly changing part of the United States. Ironically, in many areas today's number-one threat is not clear-cutting, overgrazing, or destructive mining practices. It is something more insidious. Well-meaning people, many of them former visitors who were seduced into moving to the glorious region, are loving it to death.","author":"Michael McCoy","tags":["environment","resource-extraction","suburbanization","tourism"],"id":17986,"author_id":"Michael+McCoy"},{"text":"Pay to go inside Neruda's homeA body lies there with no dome.But right there in the front hallLean a fairy against the icy wall.Oh Endless enigmas had the bard!Nice and large and calm backyardEnds In the middle of a rare roomRare portrait of revelishing gloom.Up climbing at the weird snail stairDoes make you grasp for some air.And there's a room with bric-a-brac:Old and precious books all in a pack.Dare saying what I liked most of all?Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrosti","ancient","art","art-collection","art-collector","bard","guests","house","la-chascona","love","lyrics","museum","neruda","odd","ode","old","old-piece","pablo-neruda","pablo-neruda-ode","pablo-neruda-poetry-populism","people","poem","poet","poetry","preciosity","precious","precious-things","rare","rarity","rhymed","rhymes","tour","tourism","visit","visiting","visitors","walls","women"],"id":20536,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["achieve","adventure","ambition","beautiful-places","country","cultural-heritage","curiosity","dare","daring","daring-greatly","daring-life","destiny","determined-spirit","discover","educational-philosophy","imagination","inspiration","journey","life","motivation","nations","path","philosophy-of-life","pilgrimage","places","positive-thinking","purpose","self-motivation","self-seeking","spiritual-wisdom","time-travel","tourism","travel","travel-writing","wonder","worlds"],"id":27002,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["tourism","travel"],"id":27740,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"The artificial preservation of local identities is essential to tourism. In other words, the tourist represents both the attempt to transcend all borders and identities and the simultaneous attempt to fix the identities of non-Western subjects within its gaze.","author":"William T. Cavanaugh","tags":["borders","identity","tourism","travel"],"id":38163,"author_id":"William+T.+Cavanaugh"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}