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If it's you, then it's a 'traveler' or a 'wonderlust'. The rest of the world are simply 'tourists'. It all comes down to the question "who do you think you are
by ohduran 7y ago
If it's you, then it's a 'traveler' or a 'wonderlust'. The rest of the world are simply 'tourists'.
It all comes down to the question "who do you think you are to block my path?" It's not a straightforward answer, though. We've been struggling to answer this as human beings since forever.
- Scoundreller 7y agoInstead of the destination country finding a way to charge tourists more to discourage them, source countries could tax them more to resolve the issue and keep the monies for themselves.
- jameshart 7y agoIndeed. This exact attitude was satirized in an A Bit of Fry & Laurie sketch waaaay back in 1990: Hugh: Ah, yes well now you see, I have campaigned for years now to have tourists banned from Venice. Stephen: Have you? Have you? Hugh: I have, I have. It sounds very harsh, very cruel, very ... Stephen: Deglante? Hugh: Very deglante, thank you. But I'm sure it's the only way. Leslie: Who was it, who was it, who said "He is a tourist, you are a holidaymaker, but I am a traveller?" Hugh: Oh, was it Humbert Wolfe? Stephen: It was Cocteau, surely? ... etc., etc...