Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism
by jameshart on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:54PM
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Indeed. This exact attitude was satirized in an A Bit of Fry & Laurie sketch waaaay back in 1990:
Hugh: Ah, yes well now you see, I have campaigned for years now to have tourists banned from Venice.
Stephen: Have you? Have you?
Hugh: I have, I have. It sounds very harsh, very cruel, very ...
Stephen: Deglante?
Hugh: Very deglante, thank you. But I'm sure it's the only way.
Leslie: Who was it, who was it, who said "He is a tourist, you are a holidaymaker, but I am a traveller?"
Hugh: Oh, was it Humbert Wolfe?
Stephen: It was Cocteau, surely?
... etc., etc...
Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism
by Scoundreller on Thursday September 12, 2019 @09:55AM
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Instead of the destination country finding a way to charge tourists more to discourage them, source countries could tax them more to resolve the issue and keep the monies for themselves.
It all comes down to the question "who do you think you are to block my path?" It's not a straightforward answer, though. We've been struggling to answer this as human beings since forever.