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[b]Modern day tourism is awful.  You just have mass hordes flocking to a place for selfie photos because they saw nice pictures online.  They often partake very little in the local culture, learn absolutely zero at museums because all they're doing the whole time is taking selfies, and world sites are treated like playgrounds for millions. [/b]
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So when others go, they are philistines, but when YOU go, with your camera-less learned academic endeavors and erudite strolling encyclopedia you are a vast improvement to the cityscape?

Got it.[/quote]

I mean these days yes, 85% of tourism is garbage vanity traveling.  People travel all over simply to get likes and selfies at spots and just leave.  We were in the British Museum of Natural History the other day and literally 99% of the people there were just there for taking selfies with ridiculous poses.  It got sooooo annoying trying to read the information on the exhibits because you were always pressured to move because you might be in someone line of sight for a selfie.  Hardly anyone was there to actually read and learn about anything in the displays.  They were all too busy clogging up the stairs trying to take selfies in the main hall which is photogenic.

And actually yes, I have zero social media accounts and never post traveling photos of anything.  I don’t have an insane urge to feel like I need to show off my travels for vanity purposes so that I can get virtual thumbs up.

[b]Modern day tourism is too cheap[/b] and [b]allows anyone with a job at Walmart to travel[/b].  TikTok has warped everyone’s brain to flock to sites all over the planet for selfies and then to move on like locusts to the next site.  It was not like this 25 years ago.  [/quote]

I don't have any social media accounts either.  I find them ridiculous.

What I find even more ridiculous is blaming this for the problems of over-tourism.  What I find most ridiculous is the idea that one person's reason to travel to a place is more virtuous than another's.  You are essentially saying "you stay home so it is better for me."  That's EXACTLY snobbery of the worst kind.

You LITERALLY insult people who work at Walmart.  You complain that it has become affordable for them to travel.  My goodness, if you don't see the reprehensible nature of that position I can't help you.[/quote]

[b]While the writer shouldn't have singled out one company's employees[/b], it is undeniable that tourist numbers have gone up leading to the crush of people at popular locations. When I started traveling, people in communist Eastern Europe and China weren't allowed out of their countries, so the tourist pool was smaller.  Incomes in many countries  were lower. Flights were costlier compared to salaries. People read about far flung places in National Geographic but didn't imagine ever going there.

When I see photos of Amsterdam, Barcelona and Venice, I can understand why locals are unhappy.[/quote]

I'll respond to this:

[quote]While the writer shouldn't have singled out one company's employees[/quote]

That's not what PP did and you know it.  It was a euphemism for people of a lower class than them.  It is repulsive and PP should be ashamed, as should you if you don't see that.

PP literally blamed poor working class people for ruining tourist locations by simply going.[/quote]
Yea that PP you responded to is no better with their xenophobia. “[i]When I started traveling, people in communist Eastern Europe and China weren't allowed out of their countries, so the tourist pool was smaller[/i].”[/quote]

If people feel this way so what you are trying to shame them but they don't care what you think otherwise they would not have said what they said. I agree with them. I want to go to Europe to experience Europe, not BRIC country culture.[/quote]

DP - Lol here we go again... I don't want to go to Europe and see any non-Europeans EXCEPT FOR ME.

Yes, trying to shame them, and you, and rightfully so.[/quote]

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