Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses

Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by lazyasciiart on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:10PM (#44535864)

How do you say it’s not true and then immediately follow by suggesting people just shouldn’t go to Barcelona?

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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by majormajor on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:25PM (#44535986)

I'm not sure what you mean?

This is what I said isn't true: "Everyone thinks that they are being more respectful than average"

I think most people don't think about being respectful much at all.

I think someone who does want to be respectful would be like "hey, locals say tourism is currently out of control in Barcelona, we'll pick somewhere else for now."

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Re:Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses by lazyasciiart on Monday July 14, 2025 @02:46PM (#44563823)

This is in the section you quoted before saying it’s not true:

> the hard truth is that the best thing you can do for these places is to not be there at all.

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