Reports Of Fake Warning Signs In Spain Emerge Amidst The Influx Of British Tourists

The "I'm never coming back!" isn't the threat they think it is...

They can take their disrespect right along with them, too.

My small town relies on tourism to survive. Honestly we love people who are travelling and visiting us and contributing to our tiny local economy as long as they act like respectable humans, don’t trash our home, don’t burn anything down, don’t harass our less-fortunate folks, don’t trash our camp sites or nature spots, etc. it’s really very basic common decency. I live in BC where wildfires are becoming so common that it’s a huge problem with tourists and even a whole season of its own now (despite what some political peoples’ personal opinions are, it’s obviously due to climate change) and it’s exhausting seeing how careless people are with their cigarettes etc. (my mum almost burned my apartment patio down just by putting her cigarette out in a bucket of soil AND ALSO bringing her ciggy butt inside to put out in water - the god damn bare SOIL lit on FIRE just from briefly being touched with a cigarette butt! A tourist almost burnt my hometown down last month with a cigarette butt, the fire was 400m from my apartment when they finally got it under control!) don’t be ignorant y’all!

I am English and I agree.

[2/2] A reduction in English tourism may easily be a boon, opening up the market for other countries' tourists, moving prime structures and resorts to a more open and high-market approach that is advantageous for local businesses and reduces the share that goes to the tour operator. In general English people in the Mediterranean are seen as rude for a reason: the kind of cheap package holiday pioneered by Thomas Cook (good riddance) and Jet2 is a magnet for young people, who go on holiday for the explicit thrill of acting unsupervised and whose requirements are often harmful for other segments of the touristic market, who are deterred from going to the same locations.

[1/2] Arguably, this kind of tourism does more harm than good to local economy. The "English model" of tourism in the Balearic has been flawed from the get go. It started out as ethically questionable (it played in the hand of the right-wing dictator Franco, who needed money and international standing). The 1970s expansion came at great cost for local investors, lured by apparently advantageous contracts that turned out to be underpaying and risky for local partners. With 1990s massification, the trade moved to a semi-closed economy that gave little benefits to local businesses. British charter flights, working with British-owned hotels and resorts and British-owned clubs. The former investors who survived had to shift to catering to Germans and Swiss.