Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations

Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by coldtea on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:21PM (#20678301)

>What part of massive floods of plane and bus loads of Chinese "tourists" is going to lead to the naive notion that "people meet each other, talk and learn"? I am not asking this condescendingly, but have you at all traveled anywhere? How many times did you meet and talk and learn from a Chinese/mass tour group?

Not sure why you'd single out the Chinese tourists.

Most American/English/German/Australian/Russian etc tourists are just as ghastly and vacuous - to the point of there being several idioms and cultural artifacts in Europe about that...

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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by asark on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:53PM (#20678608)

It's all the shoving, mostly, for me. Their group leader banners/umbrellas are a sight to be feared and avoided. Not behavior I see from others, (relatively) few of whom form so many large travel groups of that sort anyway.

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Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations by netsharc on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:55PM (#20679290)

Tour groups are weird... they're like they're visiting a zoo and observing animals in their native environment.

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