“Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.”

“Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.”

“It's funny how many little things you get used to - attached to, even - and never realize until you travel abroad and those things are not available.”

“...what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them -- the traveler stays longer, makes her own plans, chooses her own destination, and usually travels alone: solo travel and solo participation, although the most difficult emotionally, seem the most likely to produce a good story.”

“Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”

“The distinction often seems precarious. Both traveler and tourist are, by definition, separate from their environment. We like to think that the role we aspire to, the traveler, has that distance on the scene that implies vision and understanding, while the tourist suffers the alienation of the passive viewer, the "sightseer." At its worst, tourism is felt to represent a moral or spiritual failing. And in our hear we fear that we, too, are tourists.”