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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Complaints about rude locals (Parisians!) and deliberately overcharging tourists have been around forever. Nor it is just Americans being fleeced, similar themes appear in British papers too, and doubtlessly cause chatter among Germans and Japanese travelers.

But here's the thing: for those of us who remember going overseas in the 1980s and 1990s and even earlier, there's no denying we now live in a world of mass, even exceedingly mass, tourism.[b] I remember being the only person alone in the Sistine Chapel other than a solitary guard. I remember having the entire chapel to myself for about ten minutes before other people drifted in. That's impossible these days.[/b] It's just a reflection of the changes in mass tourism and trying to blame Airbnb is missing the forest for the trees. There are simply many more hundreds of millions of people from all over the world now traveling. And we have to deal with it. Add to it the increased homogenization of cities with the same shops and same restaurants and same boutiques anywhere you go, whether London or Los Angeles or Bangkok. And then you do have significant mass migration changing cultural dynamics of a number of European countries that's definitely affected their national characters, and nowhere do you see this as clearly as in Britain and London.

Agree that secondary cities are more relaxing these days. [/quote]

Ha.  For a few minutes in 1995, I was the only person in the room with the Mona Lisa![/quote]

This cannot be true. I was there in ‘94 and it was a mob scene. [/quote]

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