• Sr Estegosaurio
        10·
        2 years ago

        No? That really depends on the person who’s traveling. Saying that all tourist are obnoxious is a fallacy.

          • Sr Estegosaurio
            4·
            2 years ago

            I may have worded my comment erroneously. What I was trying to say is that not all tourist have to be, by definition bad people.

              • Sr Estegosaurio
                2·
                2 years ago

                Hmmm, most of them? Probably, (I live in a touristic place.) but not all. We can’t just generalise.

        • 利斯科@sopuli.xyz
          43·
          2 years ago

          Listen, my mother was already annoying to begin with. As for myself, I have been a tourist many times and can confirm we are annoying.

    • d1tt0
      4·
      2 years ago

      My guess here is “evil” is the ecological impact of travel. High CO2 outputs from aircraft and prolonged automobile travel.

      The rebuttal is: take lower carbon impact travel options.

      IMO, traveling is inevitable and, maybe, necessary. There are few other ways to experience a culture and understand a people without it.

      • Sr Estegosaurio
        9·
        2 years ago

        My guess here is “evil” is the ecological impact of travel. High CO2 outputs from aircraft and prolonged automobile travel.

        But that’s a problem related to transportation in general. Not due to tourism. Aside from that we really need to switch out current ways of transportation to better, safer and clean ones.

          • Sr Estegosaurio
            4·
            2 years ago

            I live in one of those countries. I can confirm. Also not having a diverse economy can be a a big trouble. Obviusly an economy purely based on tourism would suck. But that does not make tourism itself bad. Traveling is an enriching experience.

            Edit: fixed a typo.

  • frippa
    3·
    2 years ago

    I live in a big tourist area and american/German tourists are the stereotype you imagine them to be

  • marmulak
    3·
    2 years ago

    It may be necessary for some economies, but otherwise it’s also inevitable. At the very least it must be tolerated

  • SudoDnfDashY
    2·
    2 years ago

    Yeah. Tourists are annoying, and can kill your culture. But they pay the bills.

  • Inkie@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    Tourism isn’t evil.

    Tourism-centric economies that ignore the needs of local population to serve tourists and make money (… Therefore Capitalism) is evil. Car/plane centric infrastructure that greatly increases CO2 production (… Therefore Capitalism²) is evil.

    Travel and tourism are, in and of themselves, positive and enriching, if you somehow divorce them from said capitalist forces.