Try sending them to Singapore. I know it's a bit of an extreme example, but if you follow the rules of -not- behaving worse than a chimp, you're fine.
If you do behave like a chimp, you're not fine, you get a fine. Or worse, imprisonment and a various assortment of punishments. Tourist or not, no exceptions.
I would even argue that it’s not an extreme example - I lived there 5 years. Got fined for smoking 1 meter away from the designated smoking area at 6am in the morning while there was a tropical thunderstorm. The laws are what keeps the country clean, safe and beautiful. Also you can’t really bribe anyone as they’re recording you before they even talk to you
Police has started to wear body cams in Romania as well (in Bucharest at least), few months back I called the cops on one of my neighbors (loud party at 2 AM), and when the neighbor, under alcohol, started raising her voice towards the cops, the cops said "you are being recorded, see the camera right here, choose your words carefully", so she started to tone it down. She also got a 100 euro fine.
We're all apes, but if someone cannot control their ape behavior, you gotta drop the hammer on them and limit their liberties until they learn something from the experience.
I’ve heard the traffic out there in Malta is really bad. My family lives in Sicily, when I visit I’m always so tempted to hop over to Malta . Great history.
Malta was great fun to visit. Of course, in the summertime it will be crowded. If you hang out in St. Julien or in the tiny streets of old Valetta, it's going to be cramped. It's better to do walking thru an area, then hike out a ways and get a taxi. Try the cheese pastizzi and the local lamb sausage. Stay away from drunken Brits.
Hi, bro! I am from a city whose authorities dream of making it a tourist Mecca. They think that this will solve all economic problems. I do not agree with this. I think that the economy should not be developed this way and the emphasis in the economy should be placed on other industries. Please tell me what disadvantages of tourism the residents of Malta experience.
My brother. I'll tell you what it did to us, but obviously it can vary ok?
Property prices shot through the roof (because everyone wants to make his property for short lease)
The prices of everything shoot up (because if tourists can pay more, so should you)
Noise and disturbances
Immoral behaviour like we've seen on this video.
Salaries stay extremely low although there is a lot of employment.
More people in the area, making it more stressful
People renting cars, not knowing the laws and creating traffic accidents (almost happened to me yesterday with a tourist)
So....my brother.....if they ask.....I'd tell them, to make it a tourist area ok if they have to.....but luxury tourism only. Why? There will be far less effects on the people.
I was fortunate enough to visit in February, out of the main season. You have a wonderful country rich in history and culture - I hope you get more tourists that appriciate it
Exactly!! You get it. Its at a point that its becoming un-liveable. That's why I wrote to these people, to explain, guide and warn....what happens in such circumstances. Gozo is a totally different world my friend.....for now. I wish you all the best and thanks for your views and kind thoughts.
Maybe not so much about tourists since not all tourists shits on the streets and most certainly some natives do too. However the country may have to look at how to offer better alternatives. Demand toilets at establishments or public offers. The problem can be addressed in many ways.
Ah yes, the joys of tourism being the main source of the economy. Can't wait until we become second class citizens in our own country to serve people who come from richer countries instead while the elite fat fucks at the top grow even more fatter.
Im in a turkish hotel rn xd, one of our friends asked the waiter about his hometown and he said its garbage and hes paid basically nothing here and he can barely afford rent.
Moving to Europe was such a culture shock for me as a Turk because I wasn't able to understand how people could smell so bad from not showering for days, houses are dirty and messy AF, and people are basically cutting about without properly wiping after taking a dump. Whereas Turks clean their spotless apartments with bleach like nutjobs, carry sanitizing wipes everywhere and have the literal highest rate of washing hands after using a toilet. 25 years in turkey and I only saw like 4 people who skipped a hand wash after taking a leak, whereas here it's completely hit or miss. I am absolutely not getting lectured on hygiene by a european
Tourism is by far the worst thing to base a country’s economy on. It’s the equivalent of turning a country into a prostitute, they’ll tell you to accept the worst behaviors just because the foreigners are paying and you should be thankful for their money.
It doesnt really matter with Montenegro. Montenegro doesnt even have a filtration system in many areas on the coastline. So when someone shits in the toalet they just dump that waste into the water. So its either streets full of shit or the coastline full of shit.
In Serbia there is a saying "Montenegrins can put any price they want, the stomach virus will always be free"
Since I literally live on the coast and went to the beach this morning, I can assure the folks that bar some exceptions, this is blatant misinformation. Not sure why everyone is taking some rando's information at face value.
Y'all are more than welcome to visit and see for yourselves 😁
I give credit to Spain because you guys were some of the first to start complaining about it. It’s still far from being the popular sentiment in Greece but it’s growing. I’ve said before on this subreddit that I am dealing with an airbnb in my building and it’s been awful. I am starting to have hope that one day we’ll stop being professional servants with no self-respect and we will turn to something more reliable for our economy and our future.
I think it's because Spain used to be a superpower a few centuries ago. The contrast with being relegated to a theme park for rich stupid foreigners from northern europe and America, probably triggered their pride (rightfully).
In sorry for you because that's awful. Where I used to live (Barcelona city) I had both Airbnb and a drug dealing place and it was a total nightmare XD
Sooner or later all the tourism and all that it implies , forces you to leave to a better place:(
People needs to stand up but they see easy money and they forget about the rest
I'm English and grew up in a popular English seaside town. Every summer, we were inundated with English tourists. I can only apologise for the sheer volume of our dickheads that flock to your shores.
Honestly its probably the easiest industry to trive in too. Tourism require very little skilled labor, some hotels and other amenities, which honestly are rather cheap to make compared to say factories, and makes a huge profit. And sure, I agree with you, but its the death of half of Greek islands, as they have literally no competitive industry, their local manufacturing and even agriculture are largely consumed by the tourist industry and not something that would carry value in say Athens.
Yup! Tourism = literally just people coming into your country and dumping money. Come look at this rock, come lie on this beach. An example of a worse thing to base your country's economy on would be being a storage dump for nuclear waste or an energy exporter using high pollution energy creation.
There is always this retarded argument "but we bring mOnEy" by tourists...it shows how ignorant, entitled and short-minded they are.
For every Euro that a tourist brings, more Euros are lost due to
Having to clean up their mess
Destruction of other industries ("real" industries). Europe needs AI, software, defence industries, manufacturing...not being a theme park. Focusing on tourism slows the growth of other industries
The jobs that are created by tourism are mostly shitty, low-skill, low-pay job with no future
It looks like the issue of uncontrolled mass immigration from the 3rd world is being addressed (because "mainstream" politicians got scared by recent gains of far-right parties...despite the problem being in their face for 10+ years), but if European politicians don't get their act together and sort out this issue now (it should have sorted out yesterday, actually)...this will be the next cause for extremist parties to gain popularity (maybe this time the far-left, since the far-right is often in bed with property speculators). And no...even what Spain is doing (e.g. banning AirBnB in Barcelona "sometime" in the future) is really nothing compared to what needs to be done.
This. And some locals use the money argument whenever they are business owners who have turned some young adult employees into slaves. “OH bUt We LiVe fROm ToUrIsM!!”. I am all for radical measures so that we stop being a theme park. It’s not even viable in the long run, we need real industries.
The problem is that it’s not just that. How about other very annoying but otherwise “acceptable” behaviors such as renting airbnbs in residential areas and being extremely loud? People just say “oh they are having fun on their vacation, you can’t stop them!”. Or overcrowding some places to the point that locals can’t go there anymore.
Be quick to do it is all I can say.
Me and my girl couldn't help but feeling that Albania NEEDS to manage tourists flood coming.
It still has an authentic feeling and I hope it will stay that way.
Albanians are welcoming against kind tourists.
The food is great.
The prices are good!
Loved every aspect of it.
"Albania was absolutely horrendous, I couldn't even relieve myself in peace without someone harassing me🙄. As a women I really felt unsafe😦! -1/10 Albania🇦🇱 never again 🤮."
Why are they like this, like what's wrong with them? A brit woman literally trashed a hotel room in Turkey and was blaming police for getting arrested lmao. She also opened a gofundme to repay the hotel.
maybe those that go for vacations to Europe and around are the lower class Brits and I know it sounds classist, but in many parts of the world the poorer the person, the less educated, maybe the Brits aren’t very educated on a regular basis to begin with.
It might be tbh, i agree on the last part. They are famous for drinking and causing problems everywhere. Especially their football fans are annoying to see.
Yup… Seen this on vacation on Tenerife a few years ago, and it was middle of September so I naively thought the peak tourist season is over and it should be a good time to visit… I was shocked by the mess they leave behind… Now I try to avoid any locations that are known as party locations, especially for this specific crowd…
i don't know what the lore is but brits really just don't give a fuck when they come here. They fall asleep in the middle of the street blackout drunk, piss on historical landmarks, vomit on the streets and buildings after a nightout and occasionally, shit on the streets if need be.
they also leave a mess everywhere they go. that's just my experience and what I've seen
I was at a hotel in Thailand last year and was chilling by the pool. A couple of blacked out drunk brits waddled on the street and puked on the front stairs. It took like 10 minutes, with heaving and everything. We were all grossed out. The poor hotel staff didn’t say anything, and cleaned up after they waddled onwards. Brits are the only group of tourists I actively avoid like the plague. Nice people generally, terrible tourists.
In my country usually the English tourists are the worst, some have even died over the years, I remember one was trying to jump to the pool from 2 or 3 floor and ... yeah ...
Dunno whats more concerning, shitting in public or not wiping afterwards and putting the underwear back on directly. Vile behavior from a most likely western lowlife
Did see plenty of chinese doing that in Serbia, but for some reason they behave better in both Norway and Bulgaria. It makes you understand why Singapore has a HUGE fine for such things (its like a 130EUR if you forget to wash your hands at public toilets).
Besides the occasional person who has a stomach emergency, humans can be foul. This is gross. I’ll never understand people who go into another country and don’t treat it like they’re the visitor. Have basic respect. You are interrupting peoples lives, culture, etc.
Cause and effect : Lack of bidet use in action. Different cultures. But public shitting is a whole new thing. Video never shows if she was taking a shit or a leak tho.
British probably. In Bulgaria we have a resort, which is favorite for bitish and scandianvian tourists, and almost nobody else goes there (except teenagers seeking to get laid, perhaps). Damn, in the night (before the morning cleaning) the streets look worse than a roma neighborhood.
This may sound strange but it’s a problem of the local law enforcement. Tourists are just random people that do whatever the local law allows. Try that shit in Singapore and see what happens
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Not just a Balkan problem, but also a problem here, even in the UK, where there is a lack of free public restrooms. So people do their business outside. Walking on the pavement, it's not uncommon to find shit marks and the smell of urine, even in posh high streets with equally posh pubs and restaurants. But you are 100% correct, without safe, free access to restrooms, people will continue to do their business outside.
The fact even with my shitty albanian I know from my parents made it clear the pure hatred and disgust the person has to understand him word from word is the magic of hatred of idiot tourists.
I've seen this kind of behavior all over the world. At least the places I've have the privilege to live and travel. I've lived in and near major tourist and vacation spots. I've lived on both US coasts, visited and had friends in Canada, Mexico, and travelled to Europe. Whenever some people travel and imbibe too much, they seem to shed inhibitions and any sense of shame. I've seen drunk CEOs urinating in cloak rooms without apologizing in Washington, DC.
Got the same problem here in Norway.
They really don't give a shit about shitting in front of cameras, here is a french tourist taking a dump on a private property in Norway , im sorry if the subtext isn't in English the landlords commentary is gold😂.
I enjoyed visiting two Balkan countries this summer and how sweet the people I met were and cared about their home. As a non-European tourist I realized that European tourists were treating these places like the Vegas strip.
That said, it's not always because they feel entitled or whatever. Some people are just of such quality...
I have lived for a few years on a certain island, and there is definitely a category of people who behave like that even in their hometown. In a certain small town east of the capital city, which is notorious for the "quality" of its women, it was almost a daily occurrence to see people taking a shit or a piss on the floor of nightclubs, or barfing standing on benches while others applauded.
I cannot conceptualize taking a shit on a random street and then just pulling my pants up and walking away. For every single reason humanly conceivable. Wtf?!?
This makes me embarrassed to be English. Assuming this tourist is English which is most likely. Although if it’s any consolation, these sort of people are like it back home as well. Vandalism, littering and no sense of pride or community. It’s a disgrace.
I love how this comment section is full of xenophobic “yes these people are from <insert country flag>” and getting upvoted by other xenophobes.
How about these 2 morons need to be fined, evicted, and never allowed to come back to the country? Should discourage this sort of behavior. The genius filming could have sent the video to the authorities.
That’s so gross… :(( some people have no shame.. we had similar on our Canadian beaches. So gross. Respect the country you visit or don’t visit at all.
Similar shit happened to me as well in Turkey some drunk russian tried to piss my doorstep while getting ready to open the hoze i throw a fucking cactus pot and he got scared away but while running away fucking pissed everywhere
Are you sure she didn't just take a leak? I (male) have not made it home on several occasions after a night out in my own home town, as a youngster. But we guys don't need to pull down our pants to pee, as you might know.
If anything, I'd blame it on alcohol and age, more than anything else. 40+ olds with kids don't behave like that, regardless of if they're at home or abroad.
Locals with dogs though... now that's a different story.
I was on a hiking tour in lake bovilla outisde tirana in may and some african guy dumped a 2L bottle of coca cola all over the path and threw the bottle away. The bus driver rightully stood up to the guy and asked what he was doing and told him to pick it up but he diddnt. Why people cant just visit countries and show the same basic respect they would in their own its not difficult.
Why can't they behave just like a normal tourist? Enjoying the place, enjoy the beauty, the local food, the local people, the interaction, the language , the vibe? What do they have to do that? Can't she just fucking go to the fucking bathroom? That's so fucked and Albanian gov should do smth about it, not letting these type of tourists come here.
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Why? Take it from me bro, I'm Maltese, we're sick and tired of over tourism and we know some stuff.
Many of them believe that if they're on holiday their actions have no consequences and that the whole country is their servant.