>"NOOOOO you can't take a selfie here! We're erecting a fence."
>takes two steps to the right and takes selfie.
Why do some people get annoyed by tourists taking photos? It doesn't affect you. Move on with your life.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/travel-news-hallstatt-austria-selfie-fence/index.html
I feel like there's a way to deal with overtourism, but this is just stupid.
It's a random village in the mountains, there must be like 1 road to it just make it a toll road and exempt locals or something
Cultural constant all over the planet: if tourists frequent your local area then you hate tourists and will stop at nothing to spite them
Go to a wilderness area. “No Parking” signs everywhere. Same thing
instead of just banning asians they go through all this travel
almost anywhere that got hit hard by mass tourism in the last twenty years seems to be trying to use the coof as an opportunity to refocus on "quality" tourism (aka boomers eager to spend).
for backpackers this has been a bit of a mixed bag. on one hand the crowds are almost non-existant compared to what it used to be like so you get a much better experience overall.
on the other hand hostels are recovering extremely slowly, so accomodation is 2x or sometimes even 3x as expensive. same goes for flights. so its more expensive. im in my late thirties now so money is not a huge deal, but if this were twenty years ago when i was first traveling on college summers I would've been fricked.
The first golden age of travel was the jet age in the 1950s.
Was the second golden age the post 9/11 world of 2002-2019? Will we ever see a third golden age? I'm doubtful. Environmentalists worldwide are calling for an end to cheap flights due to carbon emissions.
For me more expensive flights just means I have to save a little more before I travel or spend a little less when travelling. Either are acceptable, though the latter is much more difficult. Its a priority for me, I'm fine spending more. It is OK if this prices people out if its makes trips more enjoyable, though I gotta say the mass tourism era had some incredible hostel parties.
3rd golden age will be if Russia collapses or there's a new big war
>if tourists frequent your local area then you hate tourists and will stop at nothing to spite them
this but unironically
i live and work in the busiest tourist trap in the southern hemisphere and the 2 years of covid were a blessing.
now the tourists are back shit's fricking awful. price of everything's gone up and no-one knows how to fricking drive. random pajeets and chinks parking their cars in my driveway every day
>almost anywhere that got hit hard by mass tourism in the last twenty years seems to be trying to use the coof as an opportunity to refocus on "quality" tourism
yep, 100%.
even adventure/ski towns like Queenstown are using covid as an excuse to rebrand themselves as 'business conference getaways' and are jacking up prices to push backpackers and casual tourists away.
I'm an american defense contractor, we got spots in MIQ then got to travel NZ after our contract was up and I spent a few weeks in QT and it was truly glorious. booked huts on the Routeburn the night before the hike, our Airbnb was like 75% off, only NZ and aussie tourists who all were great fun so it was just an awesome time. the locals were so happy compared to before, it was such a relaxed atmosphere.
my home town there are some beautiful cliffs you can get to by a comfy nature walk - they put in a safety fence during covid lockdowns.
with rise of selfie culture - these public parks get busier so they restrict parking, you're supposed to pay to enter, and worst of all they added a safety fence around the peak of the cliff and covered up any easy path secondary cliff points because a few selfie people fell off it.
I do not live in a touristic city. I do live nearby a park that I go to pretty much everyday and that is very popular. Weekends sucks as it is filled with people from other neighborhoods. They lack awareness while moving or stopping around places, people speak loud, some put loud music...
It does sucks, specially if you live in the place and have to deal with this rubbish everyday. People blocking the pavement, asking you to take pictures of them, etc. Mass tourism is always problematic. There's a difference between dealing with one or two persons trying to take a picture and having to walk in the road or do like in a steeplechase because there's a horde blocking the path.
The overtourism of Prague has gotten out of hand.
I live in the biggest tourist destination city in Canada.
This is a _very_ expensive place. Most regular citizens can’t afford to live/work here, so the tourists tend to be rich Amercians who come by yacht, or rich asians/Indians/etc who fly private or first class. Most of them know how to behave, so there’s never really much friction with the locals.
Civilized tourists = good
Black person tourists = bad
Taking selfies is Black person behavior now?
The gatekeeping around the "proper way to travel" on this board is astounding.
>Taking selfies is Black person behavior now?
Correct. Sophisticated people take well though out and composed photographs.
im sure selfies makes locals seethe but the tipping point was street shitting
>The gatekeeping around the "proper way to travel" on this board is astounding.
SighSee has always been infected with the whole "STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE" mindset. PArt of it is trolling, part of it is suincere rage that people like different things, and travel in different ways. No real way to know the proportions.
How do you get to banff by yacht?
That’s what I was thinking
If you are a "man" who takes selfies, you should kys.
how will i have photos for dating apps to coom in asia?
NIMBYism, frick you I got mine behavior.
Imagine living in a town in Austria with a population of 400 that gets 10,000 visitors a day and complaining about it. I'd start a fricking business and make a million dollars a summer selling beer and hot dogs from a cart.
I’d sometimes just want peace and quiet.
Then you move one town over where no one visits. I'll make the million bucks without you.
> UNESCO-protected spot
They’re really just give those to anyone nowadays, don’t they?
I don't understand how this is supposed to specifically deter selfies -- what was the plan? It fricks up the view and makes the world a bit uglier for everybody, whether they are taking a selfie, a regular pic, or not taking a pic at all, whether they are tourists or Real Travelers (tm) or residents. And in any of those cases you can pretty much work around it by taking a few steps to the right or left. Was there some specific reason they did not want people standing exactly right there? It makes no sense.
I find it pretty dumb, but I'd love it to backfire:
>Selfie gets 'ruined' by the fence
>Proceed to stick a big printout of the 'original' background mountains to said fence
>Keep taking selfies now with the photo on the shelf