How dare you

Looking at you, Kyoto

Tourists frequently treat the laws as though they are suggestions instead of the law because they'll be leaving and won't deal with whatever they did.

They drove my mother off the road and the tourists walking nearby just watched and did nothing even though she needed medical help as she was on a bike. Luckily she was fine.

Others would argue with me, a kid, about where shit was.

"How do you get off the island"

"One way on and off, it's the way you entered"

"No, there's a way off here"

"There is not"

"Fuck you" they'd say, to a kid, before driving off and finding no no. Kid is right.

Whenever we traveled we were slammed into us to be polite, follow all local laws, be kind, and I just. It feels like a lot of the shoobies just were raised in a fucking barn.

Traditional fishing village, no fishermen can afford to live there anymore because of tourists, air B&Bs and holiday homes pushing the price of houses up.

Yeah, I'm sure the average person living in a tourist town gets tons of dividends from the extra taxes and capital earnings. It "trickles down" or whatever the kids are calling it these days.

It trickles down so hard that corporations are kicking you out of town by buying up everything and price fixing the rent.

It's not that we live in a direct democracy where the people have a say in the decision to turn the city into a tourism place. More often than not people are born there or moved there long before tourism was so big

Lived in Banff for 18 years. Some days those tourists are just the fucking worst; feeding animals, littering, having fires anywhere they want. I got real possessive of my home. But the many are decent, outdoor lovers who don’t suck.

When I went to Banff many years ago, the chipmunks near our lodge were the fattest that I'd ever seen. It was obvious people had been feeding them and they had become dependent on it. Very sad.

Daily experience in Hawaii. Litterally had a neighbor whose entire ability to survive is based on his wife's business doing wedding photography complaining about "immigrants and tourists"..

Like bruh. You are a kept man and a poorly performing house husband. Maybe just have the grace to accept things as they are?

This is why the Airbnb ban comes up super controversial too. From an unanalyzed/ outside perspective, the narrative "we need homes for locals" makes sense. Then you find out the entire campaign was pushed entirely by the hotel industry lobby in Waikiki (the counsel member who pushed the ban her husband was litterally on the payroll of the hotel lobby). Then the ban went into effect and it killed thousands of small, pop up businesses that had been cleaning, landscaping, maintaining the rentals. And it didn't do one iota of good in terms of reducing or stabilizing rent; if anything, it made things worse. The airbnb' almost all went down one of three tracks: either the owner kept it going illegally (the highest end with wealthiest owners), the owner stopped renting and has left it vacant, or the owner remodeled or sold to a flipper, in which case the house resold for a price quite litterally no locals can afford in rent.

What people don't want to hear about Airbnb bans is that that they significantly hit the non-corporate, local economies far, far harder. It moved tourists out of local neighborhoods and back into Waikiki, meaning that the dollars those tourists might spend on breakfast, grocery, something on the side of the road in some community outside of Honolulu. It further consolidated power into the very already very small number of hands who own all the hotels in Waikiki, while it did basically nothing to stabilize rents.

In my experience economies based around tourism have much greater inequality, with a few wealthy landowners/business owners raking it in, scumbag tourists throwing their weight around and any non wealthy locals forced into low wage service work and treated like shit in a high cost of living environment. Fuck tourism and fuck tourists.

As usual, seems he underlying problem is capitalism, not people wanting to visit nice places.
- I think it's entitlement. People feel entitled for some reason? I have no idea why, but they fucking do.
- Its generally the people whom capitalism has rewarded who can afford tourism. And goddamn are they obnoxious about it. Maybe buy a house in your community and spend 4 months there and vote in your elections. Fuckin' scum.
Yuuup. The people complaining are not the ones that decided that their city should be a tourism dump.
This. 100%

I hate my customers too. I get it.

Customer service inspires a certain level of misanthropy

Can't say I blame them. Tourists can be obnoxious, especially in swarms.

ring ring KOM OP VAN HET FIETSPAD, KANKERTOERIST

It's not "a" tourist, it's "a milion" tourists they don't tolerate

And the messes they leave. If they could pick up after themselves and not treat our service staff like shit, that'd be great.
Edit: spelling
- I recently went to a very.. rich area that’s for sure a destination (there’s a boat tour around the lake to look at mansions, of which there are dozens. It’s really gross. I did not enjoy being there.)
  People looked at me funny when I picked up trash that wasn’t mine while walking.. but like there’s a trash can RIGHT THERE! Why wouldn’t I??
  But that’s just the vibe in touristy areas.. not my home, not my problem. And that’s gross.
No, they all suck 😂

I grew up in San Diego. I can't afford to live there anymore and had to move halfway across the country because of those tourists. Comic Con would be the worst. Just fucking shambles. And then all the people who feel like Comic Con is their home leave their "home" covered in fucking garbage and piss soaked streets. And then some of those tourists started to enjoy San Diego so much, that they all started moving there with their trust funds and high paying remote jobs. By the time I left 5 years ago, I'd meet people and they'd almost all ask, "Where are you from?" to which I'd reply, "From here" to which they'd reply, "No, but where are you from originally?".

Yep. Fucking tourists.

Seattle it's standard small talk to ask where someone is from. The almost five years I spent there I only ever met one person who said they were from Seattle
- For Seattle, my experience is that most of the people are there for tech work. Those folks could have been working anywhere from "just came to this city" or "have been working for 10+ years".
  There's not that many tourists, the few ones that come visit mostly congregate in pike place and around the space needle.

OP after being kicked out of his home so that the landlord can rent it in airbnb: “well at least the economy is booming!”

While not a city, tourists have ruined the town I work in... It used to be a working town and the surrounding area was where people actually lived. Then the area got popular for rich people to come walk around in the summer... They bought all the housing for their vacation homes/air b&b and the bought up local businesses, turning them into seasonal shops...

Locusts...

I mean they often only want the place they live to be affordable and focused on catering to its residents and not people coming a week or so every year being the focus of the local amenities and that's a fair opinion to have.

Whose*

Florida in a nutshell.

I’m like this as an american who lives in another country. I get that face when i hear english being spoken because the tourists are usually jackasses.

Ah, Ive seen you've been to Paris.

Tourism represents 3.5% of Paris’s economy. I don't think the city would collapse if it stopped overnight.

Most tourists are pieces of shit. Locals barely tolerate that shit because of money but you can't ask more.

It would be fine if they would simply drive the speed limit instead of 10 under, and stopped littering.

I don’t understand why those two things simply aren’t a given.