Visitor Quotations

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.

Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

On one hand, given the 800-plus cases we have, this is a serious situation. On the same token, we have 2.8 million people in Iowa, so the relative risk of any single visitor getting mumps is extremely low.

No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

I don't know, frankly, what we can do other than what we already do and maintain a good visitor experience. I don't know what we can do other than build a plastic bubble around the place. If someone is going to do something foolish, there's very little we can do to prevent it.

If they can afford to spend money on that kind of thing for visitor attraction why aren't they spending the money on getting this facility going?

Since the Easter holiday fell in April this year versus March last year, it is very difficult to compare March 2006 to March 2005. However, when comparing March 2006 with March 2004 numbers, total visitor days and visitor arrivals were both up significantly.

(McCartney) came here about a year or two ago just as a visitor -- we take paying visitors -- and he had a look around,

Having been involved in the gaming industry for more than 35 years, I can think of no other construction manager better suited to help us create an unparalleled visitor experience.

Having this service to Salt Lake City will open a new world of visitor and meeting markets for us, not only in Utah but for all the connecting cities Delta serves. In the past we focused largely north and south for visitors. Now we can look to the east.

We expect to see a moderate increase in arrivals and healthier increase in visitor spending in 2006.

Passing the 7 million milestone was a tremendous achievement for our state's visitor industry.

Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.

Where we used to just look at the visitor as a whole, now we are breaking it down to families, youth groups, school groups, tourists, tour groups, ... A family is going to be reached differently from a school group.

Most locals understand, but some don't. The reason why we enjoy the lifestyle we do is because of our tourism-based economy, ... I think it stands to reason that that's why visitor centers exist in any community it's that you hope to have that kind of a sales impact on a visitor coming through to get them to stay a day longer.

When you?re in Crystal Bridges, we need to make sure the visitor is oriented to both experience, and to possibly use, the walk on the west side as their introduction to downtown. We are trying to identify some other places around the country to take a look at.

We use the travel spending numbers to forecast for the visitor spending.

We've seen at least three theatres in difficulties and it looks as if they're closed, West End theatres. We've seen restaurants and pubs and all sort of visitor attractions 20 or 30 percent down.

We've seen in the last year here in the state, visitor expenditures grow 7.5%, which is our strongest rate of growth in the last five years.

This promises to be a phenomenal year for the park and our Guests. We are literally pulling out all the stops to ensure that every visitor who walks through our gates has the best time imaginable. Every single day we will be focused on bringing our Guests a total entertainment package that they won't find anywhere else, and in addition to our amazing array of rides and attractions, we're making a big investment in -- and commitment to -- improving the Guest experience by providing a better park environment.

We did very well and sold across the board. Furniture appeared to sell especially well at the show. We sold a nice J&E Norton two-gallon bird jug with especially strong blue color. A visitor from California bought all three of our Nineteenth Century schoolgirl samplers. The show is well run and always a pleasure to do.

When a visitor comes in, we'll ask them where they're going and who they are visiting. We'll then ask them for a form of identification, type that information into the computer, and take their photo.

We respect people's beliefs, and conversion is not necessarily our goal. We hope that every visitor will have a clearer idea of what Darwin did and, for that matter, what science means.

Unfortunately in tourism, perception is reality. Because if a tourist or visitor perceives it unsafe they are not going to come. So we've got to deal with both. I think the reality is we have a crime problem and we have to deal with it.

Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.

Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

You bet his family was with him, of course. What better way to see and judge the visitor experience of a national park?

And with fee demonstration funding, Glacier has been able to put a lot of funding into making it more accessible. The key element is that the physically challenged visitor wants to have the same experience the other visitors have. They don't want to be singled out.

Visitor volumes continue to press forward, while consumer spending is holding its ground. We estimate spending on gaming, lodging, dining and retail items posted healthy gains ranging from high single-digits to low double-digits during the first quarter of 2006.

We are encouraged that first-quarter arrivals set a new record for the domestic market and total visitor days exceeded all previous years. Furthermore, we are excited by the strong growth in visitor arrivals from Canada and by the continued increase in the level of overall expenditures.

December continues to be the softest month in terms of visitor counts, but things have been improving in recent years.

This area was formerly used as a gift shop before the visitor center was built (in 2000).

I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.

I must say that in the last 20 years, I don't know of one zoo visitor that has been killed or maimed that bad by an animal in the zoo. Obviously, as zookeepers, our job tends to be dangerous at times.

The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.

The average stay of a visitor is 3 1/2 days. There's a lot for people to do in that time, and not just gaming. There's shopping, there's fine dining, and shorter just works better.

Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.

The new visitor center at Big Bone Lick State Park will provide an important cultural attraction in Northern Kentucky that will further establish it as a tourist destination,

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The continued record increase in visitor arrivals from the domestic market has been phenomenal.

I really think the plan finds an elegant balance between park protection and visitor use and enjoyment.

Gen Con has quickly earned a special place in the heart of our city. We are thrilled at Gen Con's decision to become an annual event on our convention calendar and promise to meet and exceed gamers' expectations for outstanding visitor service and value in Indianapolis for years to come.

The visitor never really engaged with the story the way we would do today in terms of living history. We're going to take a character-led approach to the whole presentation in the future.

Ireland's a special place. I've been a frequent visitor ever since investing in a bit of property. You can drive for hours and not see a soul.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''

A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting speech about elections?' But that's what we're doing, and that's what the legislation that passed yesterday does.

The cruise-industry growth is adding to the diversity of our visitor market.

The event will be practically the same size. If a visitor came and watched the events along the parade route, I'm not sure they would know we even had a hurricane.

The city has requested that we perform a visitor profile study, which hopes to find out who our visitors are in Fort Collins, where they are coming from, and why they are coming.

For many people, this is a homecoming and a gathering of people from their family and community. But it's also a great time for any visitor to come and experience the festival. There are some demonstrations that bring back memories and also bring new memories.

At first, the thought was we'd fix it up. But after a series of visitor studies in late 2000, early 2001, the institution got behind the idea of a full-scale renovation.

This ordinance is unfair to every visitor in Santa Cruz. It's thinly disguised loitering law that will be selectively enforced.

We got a call Friday from a woman who has extensive family ties in Canada, and we sent out five visitor guides to her family in Canada. They will be coming to St. Charles in the summer.