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.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1giving up seats to avoid conflict
- 2ignoring rebukes and objectionable body language
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“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 ↗
Where this came up
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