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Anonymous wrote: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. 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. 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.

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

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How could Ocean City have jumped the shark? It’s exactly the same as it’s always been except more expensive.

And all of Italy— from Fruli to Sicily— has “jumped the shark”

And a couple of DCUM posters have declared nothing in Costa Rica is “authentic” anymore?!

This thread has clearly jumped the shark!

Not pp

“Least authentic place in Latin America”

Do you disagree with that statement?

I have no idea what that statement even means but there are plenty of places in Latin America that have been transformed by tourism, especially in Mexico.

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Anonymous wrote:Rehoboth. It’s just not fun anymore. So over crowded.

Same with Bethany. Knocking down all the cottages and building these mega family rentals has led to a huge overcrowding of the town (in addition to all of the growth out 26).

Anonymous wrote:Lake Como

Anonymous wrote:COSTA RICA

DCUM is obsessed with it but it’s become nothing but a theme park for UMC white families who consider it an “adventure.” There’s no longer anything authentic about it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How could Ocean City have jumped the shark? It’s exactly the same as it’s always been except more expensive.

And all of Italy— from Fruli to Sicily— has “jumped the shark”

And a couple of DCUM posters have declared nothing in Costa Rica is “authentic” anymore?!

This thread has clearly jumped the shark!

Not pp

“Least authentic place in Latin America”

Do you disagree with that statement?

Anonymous wrote:How could Ocean City have jumped the shark? It’s exactly the same as it’s always been except more expensive.

And all of Italy— from Fruli to Sicily— has “jumped the shark”

And a couple of DCUM posters have declared nothing in Costa Rica is “authentic” anymore?!

This thread has clearly jumped the shark!

Anonymous wrote:COSTA RICA

DCUM is obsessed with it but it’s become nothing but a theme park for UMC white families who consider it an “adventure.” There’s no longer anything authentic about it.

Anonymous wrote:COSTA RICA

DCUM is obsessed with it but it’s become nothing but a theme park for UMC white families who consider it an “adventure.” There’s no longer anything authentic about it.

Anonymous wrote:COSTA RICA

DCUM is obsessed with it but it’s become nothing but a theme park for UMC white families who consider it an “adventure.” There’s no longer anything authentic about it.