[bmsleight_]

>Precisely. Tourists are like locusts.

Ok - so how to I go on holiday and not be a locust ? What is the solution no holidays, no travel ?

I live in London and its can be fun trying to get a real work meeting near Houses of Parliament as 'locusts' are all around. However - quid pro quo

>And that's before you get into drug tourism, which Amsterdam has a lot of as well. Not sure the tourism came before the changes to local drug enforcement.

[midasuni]

I’m used to working around tourists, including Westminster. One office is just south of Parliament, I also have sites on the river at horse guards, at Trafalgar Square, near Westminster abbey, and in Downing Street, as well as other tourist locations like Buckingham place, the strand

Working on a few days surrounding the queens funeral was a pain - got stuck near Westminster tube for half an hour, got stuck the wrong side of the mall for a while, but on the whole I find very little impact.

The tourist amenities are on the whole scaled appropriately.

The problem with cruise ships is they dump a thousand people into a small town, they spend very little, use all the space, clog the main instagram landmark, then leave.

A normal tourist visiting the city would have several nights in a hotel, be eating lunch and dinner out, be visiting multiple attractions. This brings more money into the city, spreads them out across different sites, and is naturally limited by the availability of hotels.

Bring your own hotel breaks this model.

[checkyoursudo]

I guess it is possible that in the future there will be generally few people who go on holidays to distant places or travel very far. It is a relatively recent phenomenon for anyone except the wealthy, as in the past, what, 100 years or so? Maybe someday a hundred years from now people will study "The Golden Age of Travel and Vacation".

[j-a-a-p]

A cruise ship is just the mirror to remind us, we are all locusts.