To find tourists really annoying (even though I am one)

[Gone2far]

We're travelling round Romania at the moment, but have found the same in Georgia and Turkey.
When you visit orthodox churches, or mosques, there are often signs asking both men and women to not wear shorts, or sleeveless tops, or cover their heads. And there's always tourists who just don't care and wander around without taking any notice.
Shouldn't tourists, as visitors to a country, show respect?

one of my absolute pet hates is when tourists talk loudly and in public in snooty and denigrating ways about locals

I love in a tourist town where most visitors are American or Japanese.
White Brits speaking Japanese is bloody rare but unfortunately for some of them both my dad and uncle spent part of their childhoods there, going to school with the locals, and speak pretty good Japanese (my uncle is pretty much fluent).
They've made a few Japanese tourists shit themselves when they realise that at least some of the locals can understand them and their disparaging comments.

Agreed. I went to Auschwitz and didn’t take a single photo, it felt completely disrespectful to do so.

British tourists abroad are an absolute embarrassment as well, especially in Spain.

"The vast majority of Cornish people (or anyone in any other UK tourist hotspots) see very little financial benefit from tourism.

The only people who make a decent living from tourists are the relatively small number of business owners and holiday let owners."

Who then pay taxes. And many of the businesses - that the locals also use - just wouldn't be there without the custom tourists bring in, so the locals would have a very long drive for, say, a grocery shop. A relative who lived in Cornwall for over 30 years and was very active in the community reckoned that the cash-strapped council would struggle to provide any services at all without the income generated by tourists.

amicissimma - You're talking complete rubbish, but don't worry about it.

As I've said in my post (which you selectively edited)... for the vast majority of locals the economic and social disadvantages that tourism brings far outweigh the economic advantages.

As for local councils it's laughable to suggest that the business rates from a few tourism specific business are paying for ALL the council run services in a given location.

I know someone who works in the chief execs office of my local council and they reckon that at best the income the local authority gains from tourism just about covers the additional costs which the council incurs when having to deal with the various issues that tourism inflicts on the local area.... so revenue neutral at best.

Where I live we get coach parties of European teens coming to our little town. They are always very sweet on the whole. They walk through to do the educational bit and then go to the local cafes and shops to practice their English and puzzle over our currency. Our little town depends on this trade totally!
I did encounter a coach of Chinese at Stonehenge though. Whilst watching them was an interesting spectacle it did rather ruin our experience.

I study in a town that's popular with tourists, and which for historical reasons gets a lot of Chinese visitors, almost always in large, unwieldy tour groups. At certain times of year it takes nearly twice as long to walk across the town centre as usual, which is really irritating. But as a student, I'm one of the other type of person whose presence and behaviour can annoy residents (although the university has probably been here a lot longer than many residents' families 😂) so I try not to get too narky. And I've not come across tourists behaving that badly; it's more that the groups are really just too large for an ancient town with narrow pavements. The tour guides should be more conscious of this and request that the groups leave a route past for pedestrians who need to move faster than a sightseeing crawl! Visitors can be quite unaware of their surroundings and the fact that it's a real town with real traffic that can really squash them if they wander in front of it…