One of the ushers, Jerome Wright, had to muster his high school French to turn away a group of eager tourists.
Since then, he has published some 30 books, while his most popular photographs are now posters carried away by tourists eager to prolong their tryst with Paris.
The film is about two businessmen who go searching for their boss in Thailand, and then meet up with a tourist eager to explore the country.
Like eager tourists they drank in the sights.
Germans are perhaps the world's most eager tourists, spending about $40 billion each year for foreign travel.
And when he goes off the beaten path, he now has thousands of eager tourists following behind him.
And the tourists, still eager to enjoy one of Sicily's most colorful offerings, continue to play an important part in this work of conservation.
Most eager tourists have experienced it: the natural exhaustion that overcomes them in art galleries, caused by the over stimulation of the visual senses.
So where would he, as an eager tourist from Arizona, most like to attend a weekday matinee?
That might have seemed like welcome news to tourists eager to climb the Washington Monument or walk the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.