Cosmopolitan cities are full of people coming from around the world and making something greater than the sum of its parts. Tourist destinations, though they'r

Cosmopolitan cities are full of people coming from around the world and making something greater than the sum of its parts. Tourist destinations, though they're also full of people from around the world, make something less than the sum of its parts. Tourists in this mode don't bring their own culture to the place. I'm sure most of the tourists are interesting people back home, but for some reason they adopt a globalized extruded tourist persona on vacation. For example, parts of Bali are full of Australian tourists. Bali is interesting, and Australians are interesting. But mobs of Australians picking over the gift shops in Bali are ghastly.