Hundreds of protesters in Mexico City have destroyed businesses and harassed tourists in the city’s touristic hub in a march railing against mass-tourism and gentrification
I haven’t even been on a plane since before 9/11/2001, and even then the last time I was on a plane it was for moving across the country that I already lived in.
I live in a touristy party of Japan and it’s quite overwhelming. I feel the same as you most of the time, but I like travelling too and I love hosting friends who come. I just think the government and businesses need to make use of the tourists other than milk them for money and treat them like royalty.
At least where I live, I would like for tourists to learn about our history and have them clean up our beaches. It’d be nice of they raised a fuss about our lack of public transportation and clean energy too, since the government only listens to those who are willing to spend money here.
Accounting for the metropolitan area population, Mexico City is the fifth largest city in the world. If your business can’t survive without tourists in that environment, something is wrong with the business, not the lack of tourism.
Mass tourism is a cancer that needs to be irradiated from any proper city. That shit brings very little money, and mobs of unruly, uneducated dimwits that think they own someone’s soul because they spent €5 on a couple of the cheapest drinks on the menu.
Possibly unpopular opinion but fuck them tourists.
I feel bad for the trashed businesses, as they tend to be at least locally owned.
Don’t ever travel then
I haven’t even been on a plane since before 9/11/2001, and even then the last time I was on a plane it was for moving across the country that I already lived in.
I don’t travel.
And it shows
Make up your mind.
Your opinion of travel and tourism is irrelevant. You’re just another American that doesn’t but thinks their opinion is worth a damn
I live in a touristy party of Japan and it’s quite overwhelming. I feel the same as you most of the time, but I like travelling too and I love hosting friends who come. I just think the government and businesses need to make use of the tourists other than milk them for money and treat them like royalty.
At least where I live, I would like for tourists to learn about our history and have them clean up our beaches. It’d be nice of they raised a fuss about our lack of public transportation and clean energy too, since the government only listens to those who are willing to spend money here.
The businesses that won’t survive without tourism?
Accounting for the metropolitan area population, Mexico City is the fifth largest city in the world. If your business can’t survive without tourists in that environment, something is wrong with the business, not the lack of tourism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities#List
I mean… if you live there do you really need a hotel? There are lots of businesses that cater specifically to tourists.
Mass tourism.
Mass tourism is a cancer that needs to be irradiated from any proper city. That shit brings very little money, and mobs of unruly, uneducated dimwits that think they own someone’s soul because they spent €5 on a couple of the cheapest drinks on the menu.
Not all people that travel are assholes. And it benefits the world to have cultural exchange.