As an example, Spain (resorts and people) are sick of them and currently try to restrict.
Numbers matter; politicians look only for increased tax-revenue & re-election, more grifting ...
Local incomes get a little better and some more work-oppotunities are created, but the big profits go to the developers and their local cronies, intl. transport- and resort-owners/corporations. In Tunis, groceries are not even bought from local farmers but are imported from France !!!
Once more and more pilots collapse handling the sidestick due to coerced clot-shots, jet-A fuel gets more expensive due to various reasons, personal carbon-footprints are AI-registered on a global scale, 15-minute-cities implemented everywhere and huge swaths of the populace succumbed to the "safe & effective" with "sudden & unexpected" deaths all these negative "side-effects" will slowly decrease and folks living in current tourist-magnets will have to revert to the traditional and sustainable ways of living, something they have done for centuries before ...
Future, occasional, very lucky or determined travelers driven by personal curiosity or special purposes will rejoice with them !!!
This is spot on about tourists. I lived as a teenager and worked as a bartender in my early 20's in a ski/resort town in the American SW and I never had any nice thoughts about a tourist unless it was a pretty girl or they were an especially big tipper. This was 20+ years ago in the late 90's early 2000's.
If you go to a place as a tourist, you are not looking for something real. You are going with expectations created by the images on the social media. The local people know your expectations and they start to perform instead of being authentic. Then the tourists took the pictures, shot the film, and have things gone viral. Then the place gets more attention, attracts more tourists, and even the locals believe in what they were performing. So fake reality becomes reality. Beauty was destroyed. We live in what we consumed - how shitty is that! Bravo, young man. How insightful you are! We should all learn from it.
I deliberately lived for a year & half (my 18 month limit) in quite a number of cities in the USA when I circumnavigated the "Our Land, Your Land" for Pizza Hut.
In Seattle, I never went to the Underground there. Nor did I do any sight-seeing in Syracuse. In Orlando the only place that I went that was "touristy" was the Dali. Even the 3+ times I lived in Vermont, pretty much didn't leave the golf course. North Carolina has been no different, except over a much longer time frame to do things. The SW was 36 years & much more accessible to "touristy" things, like the bottom of the Grand Canyon thrice & other wilderness areas.
my observation is that many cities and countries need to survive on tourism because their government, their culture, their policies prevent them from being productive in other capacities. i’ve seen places that were nearly “s-holes“ become very attractive and beautiful because they recognized that this would actually attract tourism, which was much needed. Reflecting on your commentary, my key Takeaway is that it would be wonderful if all tourists could be respectful.
you seemed to say there is beauty in the world. Then you went on to say, tourism, destroys beauty. it makes the native peoples unhappy, resentful. Therefore, we should cut back on tourism unless of course, we are tourist like yourself who truly admire beauty and then we can continue to tour, as you do. But that’s only for a select few. What a pile of crap. I’m done discussing this with you and I’m done reading you. Rather than considering input from one of your customers, you decide to be argumentative. You will learn nothing. Goodbye.
You are completely disregarding all of the details to make your point and whining about it. I can argue, and will argue, with anyone who twists my words and diminishes them without actually understanding what I mean. On top of that, you cannot even tell me how the point didn’t get across in any understandable way.
I was very clear about what I said and meant. If you don’t understand I can explain it again in a different way, but cutting everything that was said down to a single sentence that doesn’t actually represent a fraction of details and true meaning behind the essay is wrong.
Why cut it down if you can’t tell me what I did wrong?
Hey "non-boomer"? I wasn't complaining. Merely critiquing our author “Maxim“. ( Is that his name or is that a title?). His points came through loud and clear. He is a tourist complaining that there are too many tourists. How absurd! I think he said he has taken four tours in the last year. Talk about overwhelming the locals! He was shocked and appalled when he left his YACHT moored off the coast and had to merge with the Hoi Polloi tourists and the locals. He highlights that the locals don’t like it. I’ve been to some places where the locals embrace tourism and others where they don’t like it. I got smart and decided not to go to those latter places. It’s not pleasant for the locals and it’s not pleasant for the tourists. It takes care if itself. Maxim arrogantly decided to make a special carve out for tourists like himself. He talks about select people who can truly admire beauty and even goes on to describe those few as being beautiful themselves. Alas! If the true admirers of beauty were the only ones allowed to tour!! I promise you the locals don’t know the difference or give a damn. It reminds me of a great Yogi Berra comment. You may or may not know who he is. Nonetheless he said “nobody goes there anymore, the place is too crowded”. Maxim is one of the elitists he was talking about. If he really wanted to make a difference, he would stop touring.
Strive to read and understand words. I said it clearly and concisely. If you think it all comes down to “tourists need to be respectful” you missed 99% of the essay.
Now you can’t even tell me how it was vague and hard to distinguish the point. Why don’t you strive to tell me specifically how I didn’t.
Max...pay no mind to those who irritate you. Writing a pod-cast is hard; as there are those who want to criticize every minute, and have picked you as the "dump on" of their day!
I agree that you should have a reason in this day and age to go visit a place. Plane flying, tourist-traps, hotels, etc. , have become expensive and mundane; and after I had traveled a lot in my younger years, ........they all began to look alike. Traveling is no longer the fun it used to be. Try to stay out of the places everyone goes, and search out the different. But stay safe!
Thanks for the post !!!
Global mass-tourism morphed from boon to bane ...
As an example, Spain (resorts and people) are sick of them and currently try to restrict.
Numbers matter; politicians look only for increased tax-revenue & re-election, more grifting ...
Local incomes get a little better and some more work-oppotunities are created, but the big profits go to the developers and their local cronies, intl. transport- and resort-owners/corporations. In Tunis, groceries are not even bought from local farmers but are imported from France !!!
Once more and more pilots collapse handling the sidestick due to coerced clot-shots, jet-A fuel gets more expensive due to various reasons, personal carbon-footprints are AI-registered on a global scale, 15-minute-cities implemented everywhere and huge swaths of the populace succumbed to the "safe & effective" with "sudden & unexpected" deaths all these negative "side-effects" will slowly decrease and folks living in current tourist-magnets will have to revert to the traditional and sustainable ways of living, something they have done for centuries before ...
Future, occasional, very lucky or determined travelers driven by personal curiosity or special purposes will rejoice with them !!!
This is spot on about tourists. I lived as a teenager and worked as a bartender in my early 20's in a ski/resort town in the American SW and I never had any nice thoughts about a tourist unless it was a pretty girl or they were an especially big tipper. This was 20+ years ago in the late 90's early 2000's.
Action with purpose is everything. All else is a drug of distraction from life.
If you go to a place as a tourist, you are not looking for something real. You are going with expectations created by the images on the social media. The local people know your expectations and they start to perform instead of being authentic. Then the tourists took the pictures, shot the film, and have things gone viral. Then the place gets more attention, attracts more tourists, and even the locals believe in what they were performing. So fake reality becomes reality. Beauty was destroyed. We live in what we consumed - how shitty is that! Bravo, young man. How insightful you are! We should all learn from it.
+1 "be the anti-tourist" .
I deliberately lived for a year & half (my 18 month limit) in quite a number of cities in the USA when I circumnavigated the "Our Land, Your Land" for Pizza Hut.
In Seattle, I never went to the Underground there. Nor did I do any sight-seeing in Syracuse. In Orlando the only place that I went that was "touristy" was the Dali. Even the 3+ times I lived in Vermont, pretty much didn't leave the golf course. North Carolina has been no different, except over a much longer time frame to do things. The SW was 36 years & much more accessible to "touristy" things, like the bottom of the Grand Canyon thrice & other wilderness areas.
To be honest, I don't know what I missed.
°Cherishº is the new love, be well.
*May God nod to ward thee & thine!*
my observation is that many cities and countries need to survive on tourism because their government, their culture, their policies prevent them from being productive in other capacities. i’ve seen places that were nearly “s-holes“ become very attractive and beautiful because they recognized that this would actually attract tourism, which was much needed. Reflecting on your commentary, my key Takeaway is that it would be wonderful if all tourists could be respectful.
I think you missed the point.
or you failed to make your point😉
I think it was pretty clear. Mind telling me how I did that?
you seemed to say there is beauty in the world. Then you went on to say, tourism, destroys beauty. it makes the native peoples unhappy, resentful. Therefore, we should cut back on tourism unless of course, we are tourist like yourself who truly admire beauty and then we can continue to tour, as you do. But that’s only for a select few. What a pile of crap. I’m done discussing this with you and I’m done reading you. Rather than considering input from one of your customers, you decide to be argumentative. You will learn nothing. Goodbye.
You are completely disregarding all of the details to make your point and whining about it. I can argue, and will argue, with anyone who twists my words and diminishes them without actually understanding what I mean. On top of that, you cannot even tell me how the point didn’t get across in any understandable way.
I was very clear about what I said and meant. If you don’t understand I can explain it again in a different way, but cutting everything that was said down to a single sentence that doesn’t actually represent a fraction of details and true meaning behind the essay is wrong.
Why cut it down if you can’t tell me what I did wrong?
if I missed it, you didn’t make it. Strive for brevity and clarity.
Relax, boomer. Everyone else here had no problems understanding this article.
Have you wondered why nobody else is complaining like you?
You're offended for no reason and can't seem to follow basic reading comprehension.
Hey "non-boomer"? I wasn't complaining. Merely critiquing our author “Maxim“. ( Is that his name or is that a title?). His points came through loud and clear. He is a tourist complaining that there are too many tourists. How absurd! I think he said he has taken four tours in the last year. Talk about overwhelming the locals! He was shocked and appalled when he left his YACHT moored off the coast and had to merge with the Hoi Polloi tourists and the locals. He highlights that the locals don’t like it. I’ve been to some places where the locals embrace tourism and others where they don’t like it. I got smart and decided not to go to those latter places. It’s not pleasant for the locals and it’s not pleasant for the tourists. It takes care if itself. Maxim arrogantly decided to make a special carve out for tourists like himself. He talks about select people who can truly admire beauty and even goes on to describe those few as being beautiful themselves. Alas! If the true admirers of beauty were the only ones allowed to tour!! I promise you the locals don’t know the difference or give a damn. It reminds me of a great Yogi Berra comment. You may or may not know who he is. Nonetheless he said “nobody goes there anymore, the place is too crowded”. Maxim is one of the elitists he was talking about. If he really wanted to make a difference, he would stop touring.
Strive to read and understand words. I said it clearly and concisely. If you think it all comes down to “tourists need to be respectful” you missed 99% of the essay.
Now you can’t even tell me how it was vague and hard to distinguish the point. Why don’t you strive to tell me specifically how I didn’t.
Max...pay no mind to those who irritate you. Writing a pod-cast is hard; as there are those who want to criticize every minute, and have picked you as the "dump on" of their day!
I agree that you should have a reason in this day and age to go visit a place. Plane flying, tourist-traps, hotels, etc. , have become expensive and mundane; and after I had traveled a lot in my younger years, ........they all began to look alike. Traveling is no longer the fun it used to be. Try to stay out of the places everyone goes, and search out the different. But stay safe!
The well funded twit is an abomination and the world is thick with them.