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Europeans: Tourists Go Home!

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 13 2017, @08:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the Khalarsars-on-planes dept.

gawdonblue writes:

Australia's ABC reports on a growing backlash against the level of tourism in Europe, including in Spain where AirBnB rentals have driven up rental housing prices to levels where many locals cannot now afford to live there, and Dubrovnik where Game-of-Thrones tours are driving the locals nuts.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-12/european-tourism-angering-locals-as-visitor-numbers-grow/8792984

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday August 13 2017, @12:14PM (5 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday August 13 2017, @12:14PM (#553203) Journal

    Well that's too bad if Europeans don't want Americans to visit anymore. There are lovely places there. But that also means that Europeans wouldn't get to visit places in America anymore like the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Death Valley, the Redwoods, Hollywood, San Francisco, New York, etc. Sounds like a lose-lose to me.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @01:59PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @01:59PM (#553250)

    Would love to visit all those great places... yet, I respect myself enough to not go through that security circus to enter the country.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @02:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @02:11PM (#553262)

      +1 This!!!

    • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @03:31PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @03:31PM (#553282)

      Oh shit. A guy waves a wand at you for 3 seconds and somebody else looks at your ID. It's such a huge hassle.

      PS: Enjoy your weekly Muslim terror attacks.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @06:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 13 2017, @06:55PM (#553325)

        Oh shit. A guy waves a wand at you for 3 seconds and somebody else looks at your ID. It's such a huge hassle.

        If it would be just that, I would not have any issues with it. The circus already starts with a registration for a visa (fingerprints), continues with booking tickets (all sorts of data including food preferences), then there is boarding the plane (naked scanners, in Europe). The flight itself would be fine and then there is the whole thing at the US border (God knows what).

        PS: From a very US-loving country that still has to experience its first Muslim terror attack.

  • (Score: 2) by deadstick on Sunday August 13 2017, @01:59PM

    by deadstick (5110) on Sunday August 13 2017, @01:59PM (#553251)

    Well, anybody who comes over here to see Hollywood probably won't be back...but in fact, tourism to the US is reporting a 16% drop since Trump took office.