How to deal with rude and destructive tourists
Fellow travelers frequently engage in disruptive behavior, including using camera flashes in museums, touching ancient art, and aggressively demanding seats or fighting on public transit. This lack of consideration for preservation and basic decency ruins the experience for others and can put visitors in tense, intimidating situations.
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Analysis of 4 peer accounts across online developer and community forums reveals that “How to deal with rude and destructive tourists” repeatedly surfaces due to edge-case mismatches between standard defaults and real-world environments. Standard troubleshooting frequently falls short, compelling practitioners to develop custom workarounds.
+4 alternative community-tested workarounds cataloged below.
What people tried
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How to deal with rude and destructive tourists
- 1giving up seats to avoid conflictDid this help you?
- 2ignoring rebukes and objectionable body languageDid this help you?
- 3avoiding visiting overcrowded places during peak seasonDid this help you?
- 4visiting more expensive or exclusive alpine regions to deter large crowdsDid this help you?
- 5visiting during off-peak times or waiting until hype dies downDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’ve recently seen tourists come here and behave like this is some type of tourist attraction made for them, with zero respect for the place or for the locals.”source ↗
“People crowd buses before they even stop, push to get on instead of letting people off first, block paths when hiking, walk right on top of other people instead of just saying “excuse me,” and overall act like everyone else should move around them.”source ↗
“I’ve also seen foreign tourists smoking and then throwing cigarette butts into the grass. In the Dolomites. How is that acceptable?”source ↗
“today I had a guy walking right behind me, so close I could practically feel his breath, with no consideration for personal space at all. I stopped and let him pass and told him he could have just said excuse me and I would have moved, and he got angry and started arguing with me.”source ↗
“When we were in the dolomites and central/northern Italy I suppringly found the locals to be very rude and impatient as a whole”source ↗
“A lot of the tourists were just very destructive.”source ↗
“They used camera flashes in the museums, they touched ancient pieces of art, and had no blatant respect for the preservation of relics that link our shared humanity back to the bronze age.”source ↗
“Many of them were rude and demanding, too.”source ↗
“A lot of people started fighting amongst themselves for seats.”source ↗
“after a few stations my mother and I were forced to give up our seats and had to stand.”source ↗
“the hooligans demanded the window seat from an elderly person, and when he refused in lieu of being elderly, they harassed him, hit him , & shouted”source ↗
“Got me rattled a bit, that's why I am asking. Any advice to me is welcome.”source ↗
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