Great video and great points! Although I disagree about the tourist tax deterring people from doing stupid things. There are people who become more entitled to something the more money they pay for it because they feel like they need to get their money’s worth. Ugh frustrating.
Hi Inka, you’re comment came as a pleasant surprise, so I’ll take this opportunity to personally thank you for Sleeping Pill. I often have trouble turning off my brain at the end of the day, and that’s how I found your content a few years ago. I was also thrilled to know that such a bright light like you exists in the Philippine voice over industry as I had a few unpleasant experiences back when I lived there. Regarding the tourist taxes, I see your point about it possibly leading to an entitled mindset. You’re right, spending more money doesn’t guarantee a person will act respectfully. After all, wherever you go, you bring yourself with you, and a higher price tag can’t make up for the lack of manners. Destinations like Hawaii use a tiered system where tourist taxes translate into discounts for locals, such as reduced parking or entrance fees. I believe Japan could adopt a similar approach; not to curb bad behavior, but to promote sustainable tourism. Thanks again for leaving an insightful comment!
So none of those would be true solutions to anything to be honest. As some people know, when someone spots a foreigner out somewhere at the restaurants, they will give them a different menu than locals. This is because they are already pulling money out of the foreigners. What truly needs to happen, is that when someone goes to a different country, they should have to take a courses and pass a test. The course would go over everything you needed to know, the do's and don'ts, Etiquette, rules of the road, etc. Pass the test, you get you way in. If you broke any rules, you will be banned for a certain amount of time. I would say maybe after the second time you break the rules, you will be banned from ever coming back. Case closed.
Flat charges don't necessarily decrease unwanted behaviour because their revenue from their influencer business could be quite large these days. So the tax or fine is just the price of doing business for them and "well I paid for this, so what's your problem?" Fines and punishments could scale with their revenue or "influence" and you can theoretically make it just unprofitable to go to japan and do this stuff. A cap on number is sensible but only deals with the volume side and not the quality of their behaviour.
that is some karma i would not want. I am now waiting for enough time to go by before I visit. I wanted to visit the shrines and temples, but this is going to make it harder.
@@weaver270 Reports of tourists misbehaving are left and right these days, but that doesn’t mean that tourists aren’t welcome. If anything, shrines and temples are making an effort to become more accessible to tourists, like having omikuji in several languages, or having English descriptions for experiences like zazen meditation. As long as you’re respectful, you’d be fine. I wouldn’t let others’ bad behavior deter me from visiting, if I were you. Japan needs more mindful tourists, and you seem like one.🙂
The government needs to have a license to broadcast for all these Gaijin clowns. If they don't have a license fine them from 100,000 - 1M yen and don't let them leave the country till they pay. You gotta be tough on foreigners especially the bakka kokujins usually from Amerika. Streamers from Japan should be licensed as well. Have two tiers streamers permitted to live and work in Japan and foreigners. Maybe they put down a deposit for a few hundred thousand yen. We are tired of it. Its destroying the opportunities for the good gaijin especially the ones who reside in Japan.
I kind of feel like the backlash against these influencers are sort of a facade for anti-Chinese tourists sentiment. I feel obliged to remind everyone these tourists speak Mandarin and not Cantonese, and use Simplified Kanji instead of Traditional Kanji. I wonder why that is.
Great video and great points! Although I disagree about the tourist tax deterring people from doing stupid things. There are people who become more entitled to something the more money they pay for it because they feel like they need to get their money’s worth. Ugh frustrating.
Hi Inka, you’re comment came as a pleasant surprise, so I’ll take this opportunity to personally thank you for Sleeping Pill. I often have trouble turning off my brain at the end of the day, and that’s how I found your content a few years ago. I was also thrilled to know that such a bright light like you exists in the Philippine voice over industry as I had a few unpleasant experiences back when I lived there.
Regarding the tourist taxes, I see your point about it possibly leading to an entitled mindset. You’re right, spending more money doesn’t guarantee a person will act respectfully. After all, wherever you go, you bring yourself with you, and a higher price tag can’t make up for the lack of manners.
Destinations like Hawaii use a tiered system where tourist taxes translate into discounts for locals, such as reduced parking or entrance fees. I believe Japan could adopt a similar approach; not to curb bad behavior, but to promote sustainable tourism.
Thanks again for leaving an insightful comment!
Thank you for this. Great post. I very much agree with you are arguing.
So none of those would be true solutions to anything to be honest. As some people know, when someone spots a foreigner out somewhere at the restaurants, they will give them a different menu than locals. This is because they are already pulling money out of the foreigners.
What truly needs to happen, is that when someone goes to a different country, they should have to take a courses and pass a test. The course would go over everything you needed to know, the do's and don'ts, Etiquette, rules of the road, etc.
Pass the test, you get you way in.
If you broke any rules, you will be banned for a certain amount of time. I would say maybe after the second time you break the rules, you will be banned from ever coming back.
Case closed.
Flat charges don't necessarily decrease unwanted behaviour because their revenue from their influencer business could be quite large these days. So the tax or fine is just the price of doing business for them and "well I paid for this, so what's your problem?"
Fines and punishments could scale with their revenue or "influence" and you can theoretically make it just unprofitable to go to japan and do this stuff.
A cap on number is sensible but only deals with the volume side and not the quality of their behaviour.
that is some karma i would not want. I am now waiting for enough time to go by before I visit. I wanted to visit the shrines and temples, but this is going to make it harder.
@@weaver270 Reports of tourists misbehaving are left and right these days, but that doesn’t mean that tourists aren’t welcome. If anything, shrines and temples are making an effort to become more accessible to tourists, like having omikuji in several languages, or having English descriptions for experiences like zazen meditation. As long as you’re respectful, you’d be fine. I wouldn’t let others’ bad behavior deter me from visiting, if I were you. Japan needs more mindful tourists, and you seem like one.🙂
The government needs to have a license to broadcast for all these Gaijin clowns. If they don't have a license fine them from 100,000 - 1M yen and don't let them leave the country till they pay. You gotta be tough on foreigners especially the bakka kokujins usually from Amerika. Streamers from Japan should be licensed as well. Have two tiers streamers permitted to live and work in Japan and foreigners. Maybe they put down a deposit for a few hundred thousand yen. We are tired of it. Its destroying the opportunities for the good gaijin especially the ones who reside in Japan.
I kind of feel like the backlash against these influencers are sort of a facade for anti-Chinese tourists sentiment. I feel obliged to remind everyone these tourists speak Mandarin and not Cantonese, and use Simplified Kanji instead of Traditional Kanji. I wonder why that is.
Kind of? It's barely veiled.
@@ronaldnixon8226 yeah i know. these influencers are just an excuse to be anti-tourists in general, and we all know who are the worst tourists.
Ask udon shop and hotel owners if they want a piece of that $28 billion that stupid tourists leave in their coffers.
Remember the shop and hotel owners are about on the same level. It's stupids vs stupids all the way down.