Quotes about tourism and hospitality

Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Chicago - USA

The extraordinary cellist Yo-Yo Ma was interviewed for the Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, May 2007 issue. His Silk Road Project that has brought many wonderful programs to Chicago was mentioned. There were a few good Yo-Yo Ma tourism quotes in the article:

"In music and in travel, you have to be a participant, not just a consumer. It enlarges your view of the human family."

In response to "Is there a common language, other than music?"

"Absolutely. There is the language of hospitality, a secular sense of honoring one another. We can meet as strangers, but we can share respect and dignity."

Wishing you safe and happy travels.

Donna Marie Primas
President, Chicago Tour-Guide Professionals Assn. (CTPA)
www.tourguidesofchciago.com

Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 46 Location: WFTGA

Thank you Donna for your interesting Quotes Wink

I love his musiac ,i have hread some parts of the New Impossibilities", i really like the music. Very Happy

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Aladdin Khalifa

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Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Liverpool

Fantastic quotes, I wish I could come up with some like that. Thank you for sharing them with us. Very Happy

Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Zagreb

Maybe you can visit Croatia, it is very nice country near Italy (Europe)...

I can suggest you pretty good info site about Croatia.

Croatia

hope it helps !
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Croatia

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Malaysia

quote ehh..ermm Rolling Eyes

'dont take anything except pictures and dont left anything except footprints'..

actually it is a 'reminder quote' to all the nature visitor in Malaysia (i dont know if there is such quote in other countries) Wink

right me if im wrong Wink

best regards

Site Admin Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Earth

Happy new year For all of you Laughing

may the coming year show you that every day is really a first day,
a new year. May mirth be near you always, like a lamp shining brightly
on the many paths you travel.

Aladdin

WFTGA Administrator

Joined: 24 Sep 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Seattle, USA

I wish you all a very happy and satisfying 2008.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could replace all guns with cameras? You could still shoot as many people as you or your government wished, but with totally different consequences.

Make photo safaris not war should be our motto!

Jo Curran Seattle
International Association of Tour Managers - North America
National Federation of Tourist Guide Associations - USA

Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 46 Location: WFTGA

*Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Anne Frank

*Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

*Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

*Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

*Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

*Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Richard Bach

*The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

*You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

*It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

Irish Sayings

*In every living thing there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

*The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

*Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore

*What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

*Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

T.S. Eliot

*Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

*Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

*To love another person is to see the face of God.

Victor Hugo

*The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard

*Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Scotland

Mark Twain in 1867

“TRAVEL IS FATAL TO PREJUDICE, BIGOTRY AND NARROW-MINDEDNESS AND MANY OF OUR PEOPLE NEED IT SORELY ON THOSE ACCOUNTS. BROAD, WHOLESOME, CHARITABLE VIEWS OF MEN AND THINGS CANNOT BE ACQUIRED BY VEGETATING IN ONE LITTLE CORNER OF THE EARTH ALL ONE'S LIFETIME."