Are you looking for some inspirational travel quotes, especially tourist vs traveller quotes?
We are big fans of slow travel with your family. There are many definitions around the slow travel movement. But for us, slow travel is the best way to break free from becoming a “tourist” and the best transition from “tourist” to “traveller”, where you really get to experience a new location. When you slow travel and become a “traveller”, you get to know the local community, local markets, and local people.
It’s why we are sharing with you a few of our favourite tourist vs traveller quotes in the hope to inspire slow travel and become a “traveller”!
All the following tourist vs traveller quotes will make you pack your bag, board a plan and slow travel. But you can also check our road trip quotes article .
Our Favourite Tourist vs Traveller Quotes
Those are all eye opening quotes and should inspire you to become a traveller, not a tourist.
1. “Please be a traveler, not a tourist.” ― Andrew Zimmern
2. “The best traveler is one without a camera.” ― Kamand Kojouri
3. “Be a true traveller, don’t be a temporary tourist.” ― Unknown
4. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. It is better to travel well than to arrive.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
5. “Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.” ― Mason Cooley
6. “When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.” ― Mohsin Hamid
7. “A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.” ― Lao Tzu
8. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
9. “The tourist was the great conservative who hate novelty and adored dirt.” — Henry Adams
10. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” ― Paul Theroux
11. “Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They traveled.” — Alex Garland
12. A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
13. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” — Unknown
14. “We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people.” — Sara Shepard
15. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” — Gilbert K. Chesterto
16. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr
17. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher
18. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” — Martin Buber
19. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. ― Anthony Bourdain
20. Life–and travel–leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks–on your heart and on your body –are beautiful. ― Anthony Bourdain
21. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ― John Steinbeck
22. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain
23. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch
24. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” — Jack Kerouac
25. “Sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover.” ― Mark Twain
26. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” ― Jawaharlal Nehru
Final Thoughts: The Best Road Trip Quotes
As we mentioned earlier in this post, we love slow traveling. It’s the perfect way to get to know a new culture, meet amazing people along the way and to transition from “tourist” to “traveller”.
I hope those 26 tourist VS traveller quotes inspired you to travel, but most importantly to become a traveler, and not a simple tourist on vacation.
Let us know which one if your favorite and don’t forget to download all our 1000+ short travel quotes.
Emilie is the founder of Love Life Abroad. She helps moms plan epic road trips and outdoor adventures with their families. Because who said adventuring had to stop once we have kids? She’s based in the Canadian Rockies and shares her love for the region as well as other unique places in Canada & USA. She works with tourism boards and outdoor brands to inspire families to experience new unique destinations and outdoor activities.