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'No one likes being a tourist': the rise of the anti-tour

• reidjs 8y ago
  In my experience if you avoid TripAdvisor/yelp restaurants and attractions, limit the number of pictures you take, and avoid buying souvenirs you can still travel but not feel like a vapid tourist. Not that there’s anything wrong with tourism in my opinion but I don’t like how it makes me feel.
  • kitsunesoba 8y ago
    I agree with this. The only souvenirs I typically buy are things that I really like and know will get used back home, keeping them few in number, and rather than planning my vacation down to the second I prefer to wing it and plan on a day to day basis, going wherever things take me. It’s very relaxing that way.
  • drugme 8y ago
    Yup. Throw in avoiding AirBnB + Uber and you're practically "off the grid."
  • bitfhacker 8y ago
    I agree with the comment too. The best way to know other people culture/traditions/foods is with locals. The "normal" tourist is (to me) a kind of lemming: they go by subway with a lot of bags with no respect with locals, they visit monuments with centuries of history only because they are mentioned in a flyer, they bought a souvenir because it's supposed to.