Your view on Tourism

[Gil]

What's your view on tourism?
Personally I enjoy travelling and visiting new places and i've visited many european countries (Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece...) and still want to visit some more. While I felt really "at home" in some countrie s in others the majority of persons where very rude or even outright stupid.

Share your view and opinion.

Cheers

[Aeternitas]

People will have to visit a certain country sooner or later for business/historical/leisure purposes and I think what is most important is to respect that place one goes to. Hardly anyone likes foreigners to come to his country and leave a mess wherever they go or disrepsect the locals.

[Ederico]

Tourism is the main industry in Malta. The population in Malta swells heavily in summer leading to financial income but also strains on our resources. Most of our tourists are of Germanic origin (these are the sun-loving type generally, totally ignoring 7000 years of history), however after EU entry, our fratelli Italiani started to feature more and more probably due to the fact that most Maltese speak Italian making it easier for Italians.

I am in favour of tourism, especially if tourists are really interested in our History and Culture. Obviously I prefer European tourists, in particular if female... :p

[Scáthach]

We have really great tourists, usually especialy the Americans and Spaniards, so happy!

[Timo]

Come visit the country as a tourist, spend your money and have fun, but leave our country the way you found it, don't mess with it. That is my view.

[Zyklop]

Tourism is definately something positive. I would even allow Negroes to visit my country.

[Gil]

Well, if the general view is that tourists are welcomed as long as they are not a nuisance (in any way) then off I go to Ireland this summer I intend on spending only two weeks there, then it's a week in Cornwall and home.

Cheers

[Ederico]

Originally Posted by Scáthach

We have really great tourists, usually especialy the Americans and Spaniards, so happy!

You'll have to suffer me one of these days!

[Menydh]

I like cultural tourism and some leisure tourism too. But the mass tourism in Spain has lead to the destruction of most of the coastal area. I don't blame tourists for it, but especulators. Sadly, this massification was the result of the policies in the 50s and 60s when Spain was an isolated country with few other means to develop. Now it constitutes a major industry.

It goes without saying that the British are a class of their own as tourists too. (Hello Biggles! ). An ignorant herd that spoils those places that they step on.

I remember years ago reading on The Sunday Telegraph a special report on Spain, entitled "Where the Spaniards retreat when the British invade". It was a various pages report on areas of hinterland Spain, still unpolluted by the Brits. A cold shiver ran through my dorsal spine as I realized that that might mark the beginning of the end for the unspoiled rural spots in Spain.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Zyklop

Tourism is definately something positive. I would even allow Negroes to visit my country.

Good. I'll make some flyers for the ones that we have here and let them know that they are welcome to 'visit' Germany.

[Aeternitas]

Why not? Tourism brings money - and who doesn't like money?

[Awar]

Set quotas, only with a working system which provides both
for the visitors, and the natives.

[Reltih]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

It goes without saying that the British are a class of their own as tourists too. (Hello Biggles! ). An ignorant herd that spoils those places that they step on.

Most french movies and authors believe that english tourists are conveyer of senseless robots with a concrete programm to destroy humanity.

[Gesta Bellica]

I would introduce quotas for tourists, when they are too much they ruin everything and create social distortions, expecially in poorer countries.

Personally i try to go where i can find the lower number of tourists, in order to visit a "real" new country and not a beach that is similar to all the other touristic beaches in the world, for example.

[Ederico]

I only went to Roma - La Città Eterna, and I was there for Culture not for the sun (when one is Maltese he should rather seek a cloudy holiday). European Tourism should be a Cultural one. I notice that Germanics that visit Malta are generally here for the weather, other Europeans, in particular Italians are here for more highbrow reasons, perhaps except those Italians studying English in Malta.

[Zyklop]

Originally Posted by Ederico Figallo

I only went to Roma - La Città Eterna, and I was there for Culture not for the sun

Disgusting sight seeing all those Negroes at the center of the antique world, isn´t it?

[White Falcon]

I agree , come and visit our land.

Croatia - Top destination for 2005

It's no1. destination in the world.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by White Falcon

I agree , come and visit our land.

I visited Croatia briefly on one occasion, coming from Hungary. But just Zagreb and from there we went to Slovenia. I would have liked to visit the Dalmatian Coast.

Next trip into that area will be to Serbia and Montenegro. Awar has showed some very suggestive pictures with excellent sightseeings.