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- Italy is Heavily Cracking Down on its Tourists, Here's Why | Firstpost America
The global favourite tourist destination of Italy is done with tourists. The country, which has been welcoming tourists for centuries, is now fed up with the number of people that visit the nation every year. While tourism brings money, it is not worth more than a person’s life. Due to so many people in the vicinity, the environment is under extreme pressure. Thus, Italy has been constantly introducing bans on certain activities that tourists can do in the country. There are bans on taking selfies, wearing flip-flops, and even sitting on the iconic steps in Rome. Watch our video to know more.
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I am italian, i live in Rome, it is absolutely not true that tourist can't take selfies or wear beach slippers! no one can sit on the stairs of Piazza di Spagna because they are very ancient and are wearing out...tourists are always welcome, hospitality has always been a characteristic of the italian people, and then we are so used to it that Rome would seem empty without you! sorry for my Google translator english
Thank you for your message. Looking forward to visiting Rome soon and I hope to be touring all of Italy before the end of the year. Beautiful country and I'm sure the people are very warm and welcoming.
I'm from Rome too. Totally right!
You have misunderstood the information given. The flip flop ban is for people going on hikes, common sense really!! And selfies is for Portofino because they stop the flow of people in certain panoramic spots.
@@moonshine9836 Good job 👍
But you must admit that at times there are too many people in one place and that the touristic apartments are generating income for the government more than what the tourists spend some times.
Regulation is the solution to keeping the peace between local people and massive tourism… Venice has stopped cruise ships from stopping and the “tourist tax” is a very good incentive.
We must preserve patrimony for future generations, not only tourists.
I think it is not true what the media say about Selfies.
It is probably to scare the tourists to be more aware of the many people in one place at the same time…
Long live the eternal city!
Gooood for Italy!! Is about time a country does not sacrifice their well being for money…all countries should learn from them!!
It's a worldwide campagne of the globalist to restrict the mobility of the common people. They don't want you to travel anymore. Don't fall for the propaganda !
They need the money so...
Italy is a shit hole I spent 2 week travelling around and it looks like a 3rd world country in alot of places
Wellbeing is actually based on money. Not only money, but money is essential
And tourists will pay anything to visit
What the residents are asking for is respect. Tourists come into a country and are very rude, they litter, they are loud and just don’t respect anything.
ban all DEMOCRATS
Most of them are like that in their own homeland , unfortunately !
i live in America in a tourist destination. And it happens there too. human nature
💯👍🇦🇺
Womem enter the churches almost naked. No respect at all
a ban on self obsessed people, influencers and flip flops...i think Italy is where we need to be...good job Italiaaaaa
Hurrah. People sitting on the Spanish Steps are really annoting. Likewise selfies.
Thank goodness, been there done that already. Didn’t even bathe in the Trevi fountain. Be a good tourist or stay home. 😊
Bravo Italy 🇮🇹
⛔Mass tourism needs boundaries ⛔
Finally Italy is thinking about it👍
Better for us and especially for the future generations
I agree with that I visited with friends in Milan and took a train to visit other cities. I stayed in Air Bnbs that should have been family apartments. I didn’t visit Venice since it seems like a lovely tourist trap. I’d have loved to go there when it was during Covid. Tourists are too loud .
I was just there in rome all was good food is amazing.
Yes, I agree with not hiking in flipflops, blocking stairs by sitting on them and swimming in canals. But I don't really understand the ban on selfies. Did I miss anything? Please enlighten me!
The same for the once beautiful Cotswolds in England!!! Over- tourism cripples this area - one thousand tourists all standing in the centre of Bkurton - on - the - Water around the shallow river running through it, asking - "So where is this famous peaceful Cotswolds"? Long queue to buy ice creams or a table to eat a cream tea, or find a seat in a pub for a drink or lunch. Food and drink bought in from wholesale deliverers - not locally sourced and cooked!!! Etc., etc. etc. Souvenirs bought in from different parts of the country, even "Made in China"!!!! The same for the Lake District!!!
Italy is a beautiful country and the people are very nice, specially in the south, however in Rome, locals and businesses are becoming very hostile towards tourists and are treating them like garbage, they don't care, they'll keep getting millions of tourists every year anyway, I wouldn't go to Rome ever again is a chaos, however Napoli and the south of Italy has my heart, beautiful nice people and very helpful.
It seems quite reasonable to limit the number of tourists - as it says - a happy balance
As sn Italian and Canadian citizen I agree with what my land of of birth is doing. Respect is needed when one visits other countries. I respect the policies of othere nations as well my Canada. Everyone should do the same.
Certain cities such as Venice are charging to little of a fee to enter the city. May $100.00 per person Euros should be done.
Where would they get money to live on if tourism is strangled?
Don't worry. Italy just wants to regulate tourism. In any case, the nation is still Europe's third largest economy.
@@cristianmanni4109 thank you for dis reassurance. Will pray for dem ...just in case
Perfect! We have to all be more respectful! There has to be rules.
Good
I'll never step in Italy anymore. we visit Italy to explore and take lovely pictures but we get fine? if I travel alone, selfie is the only solution. and assure us about safety from pick pockets too
Explore? What are you, Richard Halliburton on the Sahara? You're a bloody tourist, you just come to a place to take pictures and eat, dude. Explore... yeah, sure 😀
You can take selfies if you don’t hinder other people. That’s where the fines are.
Well Italy never cared or maintained their monuments! It was all rack and destroyed when I visited between 60s and 80s.
I totally agree with them.. every country should establish their own reasonable guidelines, and not be criticized or shunned for it. Tourism is great, but it needs to be moderated, meaning not getting out of hand. Westerners love to do things their own way, that also spills over into behaviors while in foreign countries.
More (of revenue bringing tourists) is not always better, less is much more reasonable and still profitable.
Viva la bella Italia 🇮🇹 ❤👍🏼
Make it more expensive to go to Italy.
I live and travel around the planet......I can not recall an Emergency Team called for a Flip-Flop---BLOW-OUT........
I don’t blame Italy. It puts me off going there because of these crowds.
They want your money, well enough.
I spent 2 weeks in Italy in October 2000. Rome, Florence and Venice. Loved it and since it wasn’t summer and also 24 years, hardly any tourists. It was wonderful. I would love to go back but I don’t think I would be able to take the crowds. I can see why the Italians patience are growing thin.
❣️ VIVA ITÁLIA 🇮🇹
Actually, like all other countries that are punishing tourists should remember that a big chunk of their GDP comes from tourists and soon or later the tourist will rebel and they lose a big chunk of their gross domestic product. My devices, please don’t be greedy. however I do agree with the view that tourists should respect the people that live in a country their culture, their religion and their way of life.
Flip-flops, or sandals, cannot be worn with socks. It's illegal.
GO! Italy. Standards and decorum and respect are vital. The tourism minister is dreaming. It's WAY over crowded! Venice is desperately needing respite from these crowds
Instead of Taxing Tourist, Govt of Italy needs to Spend on Creating Infrastructure to manage. Learn from Singapore and Dubai !!
Italy need to rehabilitate their tourist attraction. Just like philippines did at boracay. Overtourism is really bad.
Its happening again!
It is thanking our very great PM Modi ji that bharat is not having any problem with overtourism like the Italy and other NATO! Our holidaying places are for our people to enjoy only! They can see on TH-cam every day from Firstpost, Hindustan Times ANI etc that we Bharat not welcoming all Britishers, all Canadian, China, Pak, Ukraine, USA, Maldives, Germany, France all EU and all countries of peacefulls! Jai Hind! Jai shree ram!
@@456loveluck Dude, Italy is a top 10 in economy, military, trading nation, millionaires, wealthiest citizens in the world, this will affect 0.00001% of Italy because of the few who won't visit.
@@Deandre-j6h Nah, no one wants to visit that mess.
Bravo!
So only Italians can wear flip-flops and take selfies??? BS!!!
Italians wear flip flops only at the beach and don't take selfies in inconvenient places were they block traffic, endanger themselves and others, and even violate the privacy of locals (i.e., Portofino)
Italians do not wear flip flaps except at the beach. Try again.
They actually allowed huge cruise ships into the Venice Grand Canal . The American stores took over small local shops. This amazing city is loosing its charm. This is all done by their own government.
On the other hand the turism is a huge source of revenue but it definitely needs some boundaries.
🤯I didn't know Migrants are called tourists now!
Like we don't have far worse problems in EU by now !!!
I don't blame them.
Im
not against the respect and laws…. we have to follow the rules, absolutely agree, but thieves don’t have any type of punishment or jail.
After you have seen the requisite tourist sites in Italy, make your way over to the Adriatic side or the heel of the Italian boot in Apulia for some of the most spectacular natural coastal towns and beaches. Some of the most beautiful in the world. The only tourists you will see there are other Italians because this is where they go on their holidays instead of the overrun tourist areas. If you really want to get the true essence of La Dolce Vida this is the kind of place where you will experience that. Maybe I should have not said anything and kept it to myself as a secret!
good
Social Media 📷, let's just face it people are annoying!!
Everybody should find another place to visit since Italy doesn't tourist in their country. Let's see how their economy after people stop coming to Italy.
Same in Spain.
Sad end for those who profit from this
After Japan, now Italy.
We went to Europe in the early 90’s and you could hardly tell who were tourists and who wasn’t but we went back in 2013 and it was terrible and we didn’t go to large cities to get away from the tourists and we were tourists ourselves.
just add A HUGE RESORT FEE FOR ALL TOURISTS
This is so great ..tourists are rude and ruin a beautiful city
This is ridiculous
"No" to tourists but "yes" to boatloads of migrants?
That’s good they have to take care of their monuments etc. but get ready to work more Italians will need to make up on the lost revenue from tourism 🙂
Like Canada,no fun zone.
Italy is now Like Africa 🤬🤬🤬
I live in America in the mountains of New Hampshire where tourists dress like bums, litter, and need weekly rescues hiking in mountains in flip flops. Forget about how they drive and just act like uneducated ramble.
More immigrants then tourists 😂😂😂
Average ra€ist on the internet. And its "than", not "then". Let me fix my comment. Below average ra€ist on the internet.
This video could have been half as long by going straight to the point and why the AI-generated voice?
Why was an AI voice used for this report?
I'm a traveler. I've visited Italy twice, and I fully support Italy defining their boundaries.
Defending their boundaries from all those hundreds of millions of tourist dollars while yelling: Death to the golden goose!”
@@larrysorenson4789 Many countries have decided tourism at all cost is not a good model for their citizens. I respect that.
I do too. I am appalled anybody should oppose it.
@@larrysorenson4789We use Euros in Europe not dollars and by far the largest amount of tourism in Italy comes from other European countries. Only 5-10% of Italy's GDP is generated by tourism and less than 10% of that comes from US citizens, so that equates to less than 1%. Keep your dollars, Europe isn't Disney world, we are just trying to protect our history and culture.
@@WyldStallion-bs9oo I have found that to be true all over Europe. I seem to not have so many issues once people hear my American accent. But, there is definitely racism that I've seen which is worse for Africans.
Tourists are always welcome ... but respect and appreciate monuments, history, art and environment ❤️🇮🇹
ABSOLUTELY! I am headed to Italy and have done careful research in order that I can comply with their customs.
A DA VAM SAMO POŠALJEMO NOVAC BEZ POSJETE 😂❤
@@melissajohnson5917 You be careful , because a bunch of hoodlums preying on the unsuspected tourist. A friend just came back , he visited Florence , what is a nice city, he was asked by an old man to hold his big parrot , what was sitting on his arm. to let the parrot to stay on his arm, but the old man made a picture of him , with the parrot on his arm, and demanded 25 dollar for the picture. He refused to pay, he said , he did not ask for a picture. The Italian old man called the police and the police arrested him ! They took him to the police station and told him if he don;t pay they trow him in the jail ! In Florence , in the center city they pant the sidewalk and you unsuspecting anything, step on their artwork, day ask you to pay for it ! Terrible behavior and the police do nothing about !
Imagine how uptight you have to be to consider someone taking a selfie was disrespectful.
@@janedawson1398 if someone is taking a selfie on a mountain path consinsting of steps hindering the flow of hundreds of other toursits like it constantly happens in Liguria especially in Cinque Terre, you do not need to be uptight, just sensible. Probably you're not well acquainted with our geography
I am Italian, and although I do not agree with some government decisions (for example, the entrance fee to Venice), I admit that some measures need to be taken to prevent our millennia-old art cities from becoming amusement parks. Unfortunately, without any regulation, we risk being overwhelmed by tourists. The message is not to deny access or to snub tourism-anyone who has visited this country knows very well that (almost always) tourists are received with happiness and smiles-but the sheer number of people arriving each year is impressive, and this situation needs to be managed. Greetings from Italy.
I do understand....I have heard the problem with cruisers is that they get off the ship only to get on busses to areas out of town, then head back on-board without visiting any local shops
Greetings from Australia.
The vid of Venice shows that the city is literally flooded with tourists. An entrance fee, presuming that it's more than just a few dollars, would at least help to keep the riff-raff out.
Hello from the US. I wholeheartedly agree on Italy's new stance on tourism.
I am from Treviso and I agree with the Venice fee. About time!!
We’re in Italy for the moment. It’s crazy to see the cities in the off-season and then during the tourist season.
I consider myself a traveler vs a tourist. I truly appreciate the culture, history, and heritage of every place I visit, but I don't blame Italy, Greece, Spain etc. Tourists are destroying these places, and I'd rather see them preserved even if it also means restrictions for me. People from other countries don't respect the rules and customs of the places they visit, refuse to learn any of the languages, and they'll go to places with some of the best cuisines and order chicken strips... carving names into the ancient architecture... it's terrible.
@@WyldStallion-bs9oo no, è vero. Il problema è che l'educazione e il rispetto per il paese che visitiamo e che ci ospita dovrebbe essere una regola, invece, non lo è. C'è chi si tuffa nei canali dai ponti a Venezia o fa il bagno nelle fontane delle varie città, chi sfregia il Colosseo per scrivere le sue iniziali come un bambino dell'asilo, chi urla per strada a tutte le ore del giorno e della notte senza pensare che il giorno successivo c'è chi deve andare a lavorare, non ci sono solo i turisti. Distruggono ubriachi gli alloggi che li ospitano... E così via. Non tutti i turisti sono così maleducati, ovviamente. Anch'io ho viaggiato tanto all' estero, ma ho sempre rispettato il paese e le persone del luogo. Ho sempre chiesto informazioni per non sbagliare, ecc.
Definition of tourist: "a person who is traveling or visiting a place for pleasure." Tourist = you. Trying to differentiate yourself from other tourists when you are one. Get off your high horse. You are just like the rest of us. Everyone dislikes destructive people. That is not a unique trait. Lol snob.
Good for Italy!!! Each country has the right to keep order and respect for their country.
Selfies are very annoying!👍
So are flip flops
America is the exception to this ideology, because then everyone else says it’s racist to keep order and borders 😒
I love flip flops @@stevenchow408
I wonder, does this include America? 🤔
What is annoying is the chaos brought about by the protesters in ir country.
Same in Japan, Kyoto is currently being overrun by self-entitled unruly tourists.
Japan has 35 million less tourist than Italy, not close to the same.
Believe me in any Italian city there are far more tourists than in kyoto
@@lucaluca1780 Japan has a much higher population density though with more than 330/sq km unlike Italy with 200/sq km so they don't need to have much people to cause a oeoblem
@spaniardsrmoors6817 it is if all tourists gather in one city only. For correct equation you need to compare cities, not countries
@@Andizu1 it's the same, maybe worse
Bravo Italia, Bravo!
The local people should be protected of course
But who is really to blame..?
The local administration, that’s who.
They welcomed massive tourism to boost the economy and in turn have shot themselves in the foot by over demand.
Naturally, the local people have the right to live without so many tourists and uncivil behaviour.
However, if the local administration had not handed out so many licenses for airBnB and controled the influx of tourists at peak time, we would not be having this problem today in Spain and France as well.
Guest or self centered annoyance. Countries have a right to decide which they wish to welcome and travelers have a responsibility to realize the world is not their theme park.
After decades of waving them in
@Brightlight-bd9jc You will? You the President/Dictator? lol
Japan did the same like years ago
Ditto with ELECTIONS and Colonialism n imperialism too!!rascal rogue western nations get preachy
@@Deandre-j6h Oi Chinese IT cell.Get a life! No one in subcontinent keeping strict watch on tourists.They are allowed to visit anywhere. Including the holy places. Stop spamming same msg everywhere
People talk about the benefits of tourism, but increasingly, as foreign investors buy up hotels and turn housing into B&Bs, the locals are relegated to waiting tables and cleaning rooms. In exchange, they find themselves priced out of local restaurants and crowded off of local beaches, etc.
International Corporate Tourism doesn't bring the kind of benefits tourism did 30 years ago when local residents owned the businesses making all the money.
If locals aren't profiting from tourism, having drunk rowdy tourists roaming the streets all night loses its appeal.
They're no longer tourists, they're invaders.
I do not blame them! Tourist have ruined everything.
How have tourists ruined everything? What you just said makes no sense. If they don't want people to go to their country then stay home and don't travel. I hear that they are nasty azzz people anyway 😂😂
But they only give visas!!??
Illegal aliens or tourists?
I live in the usa, it sucks that people have to ruin it. I agree though
@@terry4137
EXACTLY!
They won't crack down on illegal immigration but they want to repel tourists who actually contribute to their economy.
I just do not understand Europe
Bravo Italy. Preserve our civilization, we will help
😂😂😂😂😂 Italy will go even more broke , if they ban tourists
@@carlodefalco7930 The only broke here is your brain 🤡🤡
Tourism income is just the 9% of the Italian gdp, the same of other bigger economies more or less and having that kind of tourism is not certainly a plus. 🤡🤡 Italy has always had less tourism then spain but more cultural and that's what our govern wants. 🤡🤡
@@carlodefalco7930 The fun fact is that you have an Italian name and surname but that didn't avoid you to be a 🤡 anyway.
Italy is not broke at all and our gdp from tourism is on par with Germany, France and Britain.
We lived well when tourism was not as aggressive in the past and we will live well anyway when those hordes will quit coming. Our tourism has never been mass tourism as today but has always been a cultural tourism, that is the one that bring money for real. Fa@e Italian from Australia. LOL
I agree; some tourists don't know how to respect other country's laws
Don’t blame them, Italy is very popular and can’t imagine the impact of high volume of tourists on their landscape
the flip flops is because of the hiking.... it's not safe! many tourists take some types of excursions lightly. The result is that the authorities increasingly have to provide assistance. In Italy the health and emergency system is free for every person, even for foreigners and tourists. Taking off a helicopter with a rescue team has a cost, this cost is paid by the community. When you tackle a mountain trail, you better be equipped. Otherwise you could get hurt or even die and the Italian authorities pay the economic cost.
Whatever Italy is charging them they should add a 50% idiot tax on top of it. Who TF goes on a mountain hiking trip with flip flops?
100% agree on the flip flops and rescue crews. Rescue for an accident is one thing but stupidity that everyone knows is stupid need to be stopped.
@@spondoolie6450Agree 👍
Are the flip flops what us Aussies call thongs? If so one would have to be nuts to wear them anywhere but backyard!🇦🇺
@@YvonneCreanyes Aussies thongs are flip flops
Many think that tourism is the main source of livelihood of the Italian economy, but it occupies a small percentage. The Italian economy is based on industry and exports, it is the second manufacturing and industrial country in Europe after Germany and the seventh in the world
African immigrants are the wealth of Itali
12% is not a small percentage, they have the worst cars and appliances in the world😅
And top 10 in economy, military, trading nation, millionaires, wealthiest citizens in the world
@@OtaBengaBokongo It's the BongoTROLL.
@@spaniardsrmoors6817 Africans are the future of Italy population
The selfies are so annoying.
ITALY has the right to defend itself
ITALY has the right to protect itself. FIFY
ITALY BAD. TOO WHITE
@@paulgrey8028 italy has always had the right to stop illegal immigration
@@paulgrey8028 Maybe Italy has the right, but has no will ! They have to control their own citizens first ! They harassing the tourist everywhere and the police do nothing about ! They can't control their borders too, the illegal immigrants invading the country day by day !
And the tourists have the right not go to Italy. Case closed
They’re not “breaking up” with tourists, they’re just trying to maintain order and ensuring the fair access of locals to their own communities. If only Mexico could pay attention to this and do something with gentrification and the privatization of our own patrimony…
They do they drain the U.S.
About bloody time. i spent a month in Italy about 5 years ago, mostly in & around Prato & popped into Florence a couple times of & there were way too many tourists & I thought this must piss off the locals no end. Also noticed locals wear sandals, not flips flops. Only saw East Asians, Indians, Africans & Australians wearing flip flops there.
We are missing etiquette and class, elegance. I remember those days from parents wnd grandparents.
Yes, so true. Very sad.
Yes. Contemporary casual clothing lacks class and elegance, per se. And most tourists act like they came from the boondocks (mountains)! Whenever I visited Old World cities, I always brought with me a White Tie ensemble, silk socks and Opera Pumps shoes, just because...
It’s already too late. My recent trip to Italy was a nightmare. No crowd management, tourists packed into historic buildings almost to the point of panic! I doubt I will ever visit a large city in Italy again.
Never been to Italy.My dad was there during WW2, but not as a tourist, that,s for sure.Recall him saying that if he won the lottery he would move to Northern Italy or Southern Germany, have relatives in Garmisch
Esagerato
@@nicolettastrada5976purtroppo non è esagerato. Guarda le file sotto il sole per entrare ai musei Vaticani
were were you?
@@franceskinskij Venice, Milan , Florence & Rome. Rome was the worst, but they were all bad.
Bella figura, Bella figura 😂. The Italian philosophy that everything should be attractive. Absolutely! Only the Italians would ban flip flops and I support them 💯!
The point of the flip flops is tourists wear them to go on hikes, so when they get stuck, they call the rescue services, you can imagine the waste of time and money for everyone!!! For once is not about fashion!
I've only been to Italy once, about 25 years ago. So glad I went when I did. No smart phones and obnoxious selfies. Tourists were generally pretty respectful.
Ora l'Italia è più accogliente per i turisti di 25 anni fa, puoi tornare tranquillamente sarai ben accolto. Non ascoltare gli invidiosi che non ci possono venire.
Good for Italy especially Venice, I have been there 3 times off season and it is always crowded and those giant cruise ships bring in too many people who do not spend much money there. They crowd up St Marks Square and this ban was a long time coming
My home...my rules. Behave properly
You don't own the country
@@VendieSolde, so does this mean that since no one owns the country anyone can come along and do as they please? Is it all right to carve your name or write it with an indelible marker on our monuments, jump in our fountains or chip off pieces of precious marble and take them home?
Everyone is welcome to see our wonders. All we ask for is respect.
My Visa,..my money. My rules
@@pabloescabar7997 Take your money and your entitlement and go home
As long as I'm not breaking any laws, I'll behave how I want. You don't own the country. 😂
Chinese tourists drove me nuts in Venice !!
Yes they were extremely rude and self important. Ask other countries...they are the same wherever they tour 🇦🇺
They'd drive you nuts everywhere
@@YvonneCreanI think it’s because a lot of them are just kind of clueless when they go abroad. The same can be said of many Americans, but more of them have been outside their country.
That said, I remember Italians could be grating in Istanbul - for example Turks tend to speak quietly on public transit or in cafes, but you can always tell when a group of Italians come in. 😅 They’ll without a doubt be the loudest ones there. Except for maybe the Chinese group. 🙃 But the Italians are also usually very polite and classy as well.
For me it was Koreans in the Vatican. Despite signs all over in EVERY language I could recognize (And several more that I would not) that asked for SILENCE in the Vatican, many Asians were jabbering away loudly.
During 70s and 80s I worked in Rome for one month each year. Way back then it was a nightmare. I'd catch a bus, a tram, two trains and walk 20 min to a beach just to get away from the tourists.
Right? Now multiply that 10 times. Things have worsened the last three years. There's not even a "high season" anymore: it's the same all year round. I'm from Rome, and I loved walking around the city centre and sometimes going to St. Peter or the Pantheon, but now it's just impossible: there are huge queues at any hour and in any month. You can't take a stroll along Via del Corso as it is custom for Romans Saturday afternoon, you can't enjoy the beautiful sights or the art because of the crowds. I feel defrauded of my own city.
You were also a tourist. Nobody made you work there.
@@tjaspire Fool
Crocs, flip flops in Italy is just ugly. And Venice is unbearable with day trippers dragging luggage through the streets. While these measures should help people who do sensible things, it
will dry up revenues.
I fully agree with Italy it’s should be implemented. It’s good for the tourist is good for the country. Bravo Italia.
If you travel anywhere in summer of course it will be crowded. We went to Rome last November the weather was beautiful no crowds
People ruin beautiful things. Tourists, please go away.
Same thing up here in northern Wisconsin. Too many tourists who think they can do anything they want. The most mean and rude people that come up here are from Illinois and Minnesota. Please go spend your money someplace else.
I live downtown in a European capital. The whole neighbourhood has turned into airbnb apartments. Local renters are gone, businesses have gone out of business and now there are more tourists at the supermarket queue than locals. Tourists in flip flops or those hideous cork shoes (yeah, I know, they are comfortable but still HIDEOUS) who only shop for grilled cheese. This type of tourism does not support the local economy, only the person renting the airbnb apartment. If I never heard another suitcase roll in front of my building I would be happy. Tourism used to be a luxury. Tickets were expensive, lodging was expensive and I think we should go back to that time.
Good report. But I didn't like the AI voice.
Me too 😂
They have been adding it seems this week. I don't like it either, very flat.
razist
It's Lazy. Not to mention it'll cost someone their JOB!
Bravo 👏🏽 disrespectful people need to be held accountable.
I read they are limiting tourists in Mt. Fujy and Maccupichui. Also No more airbnbs in Lake Taho California.
I'm in agreement. Just got back from Italy. And the main popular cities and attractions are a SS of tourists (like me) only I'm in and out. I don't loiter. I didn't sit on the Spanish steps (others did... plenty others- no tickets given). Rome was a SS. Forget Naples. Disgusting. Bari? Meh. Amalfi? Waaaay over hyped and insta over saturated photos. 2hrs that's all you'll need. Trust. Stick to small unheard of towns. I did. And it was way better imho. Anyway.. look, Italy is, if I'm being honest, overrated. Big time. After you see one cute small town with narrow alleys you've seen them all. Pizza? Everywhere. Gelato? Ya it was good. Worth the $2000 air fare + $2200 accommodations? I could do without. Look im not saying don't go. Go. But let's stop with the hype. Even the Italians are saying relax and stay away. Which is saying something.
Good review n i would tend to agree - add thefts, pick pockets n roadside romeos n it’s totally avoidable to visit Italy
Keep yakkkin' Italy's been a top tourist attraction for centuries, not just lately like most destinations. Books, poems written about it by the hundreds and the vast majority return.
@@anon7641 Thefts, pick pocketing are a scourge in every European country, it's 80% NON citizens.
@@anon7641 Those problems exist in every European country, 80% is by NON citizens.
One of the cradles of civilization diminished by a random user on TH-cam who probably has no more than two years of studies behind them. Welcome to 2024.
Here in India tourists flocking to the hills has become such a menace. The tourists are loud, boisterous and leave a trial of garbage behind. The only way is to tax them heavily
What state?
oh for sure india is right. it has lot of garbage of it's own.
@@leesteal4458 leh Ladakh
Himachal Uttarakhand ladakh kashmir all should push back
@@anon7641 There should be tourist registration process with fee available to all tourist
hill stations with a set number allowed each year. This way the numbers are checked and so also an even distribution of tourist to all the hill station
Dont MEANDER here in Italy. This is NOT a theme park for tourists who just like photo ops. This is a country for history, art, gastronomic experiences. Not for MEANDERING TOURISTS who are not even interested in the story of this country but want whatever is on Tiktok or IG. Please just go to Disneyland.
Hey - Don't palm them off on us! 🇺🇸
There are sections of Venice where you can't move the tourist traffic is so bad. From Monday through Thursday the number tourists are far less. But come Friday through Sunday there are several areas to stay away from.
Glad I never had an interest in Italy. I'm fine by staying away and not crowding the sites.
Quando non si hanno i soldi per venire in Italia è soddisfacente denigrarla. Poveretto.
@@panterone1769 Una volta sono stato a Madrid, Toledo e Segovia in Spagna. Oltre a visitare la Russia 3 volte. In Russia nessun overtourism e almeno in Spagna non sembrava affollata. Sarebbero andati in Ucraina, ma ora no.