Tourists exodus today relieved

[justasking111]

Well it's over today the tsunami of tourists will be gone.

We have never experienced such, rudeness, aggressive behaviour from them as we have this summer. Our businesses have limped along short staffed, been abused, threatened as have locals. The littering has been something else.

I know everyone has had a bad year but so have the Welsh our lockdowns harder and longer than others.

We still wear masks in shops fgs

So hopefully you all had good holidays but glad of a bit of peace now

“They are unbelievably patient because they have learnt to be or else there will be repercussions, the prices will be dearer for green list countries and the weather will be unbearably hot.

But off you pop”

News flash. The welcoming attitude of most of the Spanish was there long before anyone had to ‘learn to be patient’ because of the pandemic and the weather has always been hot in the summer. I guess she wants to ‘pop off’ to be a tourist somewhere else does she to avoid it? One rule for your mate then..

The cottage people

Are they a breakout group from the village people?

We are a little east coast arse end of nowhere (literally end of the line) town with a beach and some holiday camps.

We went from one of the lowest areas of covid the entire time of 2020 pre-xmas right up to being one of the highest areas of the country - largely because of tourists.

Will not be sorry to see them go!

@CampaignToo

If you really can't staff your business to cope with the volume of customers, you need to take fewer customers, surely?

Wales is taking fewer customers in eateriesdistance between tables still in force, windows doors open to create a flow of air.

I'll be able to drive down the motorway without having to leave an extra 45 mins for tourist traffic
Wonder if this is for a commute to work, because there aren't many jobs outside of tourism in Cornwall.

I guess we now know what foreign holiday destinations have had to put up with for years.

Yes, @MissJeanBrodiesprime it's embarrassing, to think that's probably the case.

@CampaignToo

A large part of the problem must be that if you've spent £4000 for a week in a caravan (Cornwall, the site my sister has been to numerous times before for c. £1200) and everything is eye wateringly expensive once you get there too, expectations will be high and service standards in our tourist hotspots have never been high except when they've been forced/able to use foreign labour

Hmn. I see your point up to a point, but surely the pressure on facilities and prices was entirely predictable? We decided to stay at home this year, even though this is the fourth year running we won't have had a holiday and we were really looking forward to one. I won't be fleeced, and I don't like busy places and queuing, and it was obvious this would be how it would end up when the delta variant was allowed to get a hold and foreign holidays became impractical. So we stayed at home. Surely people who don't like queuing and don't like busy places should have had the common sense to have done the same, not gone regardless and then made everyone else's lives a misery by demanding the impossible?

“I wanna live like cottage people“

I wanna do whatever cottage people do. Wanna be like cottage people. I wanna be with cottage people like you.

Oh what else could I do. I said I’ll see what I can do…

I live in North Wales, we are a Welsh speaking family and I admit it has been absolutely HEAVING. I am selfishly looking forward to it being a bit quieter in Sept (but in my experience, it stays bust until Oct half term, esp if the weekends are nice weather.
But I totally get that the businesses need the tourist and you have to to take the good and the bad. DD1 works at a very popular beachfront restaurant, she has been in almost every day since mid June as they are short staffed. She comes home exhausted every evening but admits the tips have been good. She says 95% of people are great, but it is the 5% wankers that you remember. This year she has had a woman calling her a bitch because they had run out of a particular cake and another woman shouting and screaming that they had closed the toilets for 15 mins because a child had vomited in there and the manager was doing a thorough clean.
DD2 works in a big children's farm attraction. Like DD1, she says most people are lovely, but she is weary of badly behaved kids chasing the animals and the parents giving no fucks. She had to tell a boy off for fingering the butthole of one of the goats. As she said "That was a sentence I'd never thought I'd have to say".
But she also said she loved the boy who came up to here and said this was the best day ever and did she know there was a MASSIVE pig over there.

busy not bust obviously

The vast, vast majority of Cornwall's economy does not come from tourism, so excuse us for not always feeling grateful.

This is simply untrue.

And I have been directly involved in tourism in Cornwall for many years, so I know for a fact it's untrue. Sorry. You sound like one of those old men on town councils who still insist that Cornwall's main income derives from fishing and mining.

@SkiingIsHeaven

If you are short staffed and your customers are not happy, perhaps hire extra staff so you provide a proper service.

And if you're unable to hire extra staff (I know there's a shortage) then consider reducing capacity of customers, rather than chasing the Tourist pound, filling every available space and offering a lesser service.

@Iloveginger

I'll be able to drive down the motorway without having to leave an extra 45 mins for tourist traffic Wonder if this is for a commute to work, because there aren't many jobs outside of tourism in Cornwall.

Funny, most of the people I can think of off-hand work in farming, teaching, housing, fishing industry, retail, factory work (yes really!) and car repair. My ex runs a fish and chip shop, but that's year round. Of course tourism employs some people, but it's far from all that's going on.

@User56439876

Us retired folk will be back to annoy once the schools go back

That made me giggle ☺️

Please take em back next year 😅. Seriously you shouldn't have to put up with this wherever you reside

@KaycePollard

OMG don't get me started on the disposable barbecues left all over the beaches. And that's after they've bathed everyone in their smoke. And the litter.

Some people really are pigs.

And then they crap in the sand dunes when there are toilets in the car park

Since when has Cornwall had a motorway

Excuse me, I was referring to the A30 which is the closest we have to a motorway. There have been massive delays on its single carriageway stretch.

And I do wish people would stop the peddling the myth that Cornwall only has one hospital

There is one major hospital in Cornwall for acutes. It has 760 beds. Most tourists are in the west / central as opposed to the east.

I doubt very much that "chronically ill" people deliberately went to Cornwall with their illnesses

A haematology doctor told me this very thing last week. Particularly cancer patients falling ill with Covid as their immune systems haven't responded to the vaccine.

As for the pool you'll just have local screaming school-kids instead. There is never a good time to go to a swimming pool

It's a private pool on a holiday park. Local children are at school in the day time. It's usually very quiet indeed 10am to 2pm.

also lots of car crashes....not keeping to local speed limits......it horrible where i am.
I moved here when it was not a popular tourist place and have had to watch it turn to shit.
I blame TV programes. Instead of visitors who come here because they love the are we are getting epople who saw it on TV.....it's crap because they don't even really enjoy being here but are possibly to drunk to notice. Or do I mean they are happy as long as they are drunk?

Us locals lose our entire summer.

sorry not the are but area

I live in a tourist area, and we have seen a huge influx of extra holiday makers, and yes it is impossible to get a table anywhere or park etc but honestly what a joy it has been to see so many happy families again smiling, laughing and playing. Perhaps if you were happier for the guests that would feel welcome, and would feel cross in the first place.

Perhaps the reason for their four letter rants is because what you are offering is so bloody shit!

The idea that the middle classes will come rolling back, I am sorry but we won't. The service has been dire, the locals unfriendly, the food quality is dreadful, the packed out masses is no fun for anyone and the weather is awful. Why would we come back?

I hope you have saved some money op, because some parts of the UK have done themselves a positive disservice with the golden opportunity that was this year's staycation bonus. You have squandered the chance of a loyal following and money does not grow on trees and mortgages don't pay themselves! So ungrateful.

Wonder if this is for a commute to work, because there aren't many jobs outside of tourism in Cornwall

Lol. Yes we all work on ice-cream stands

Unless you never leave your house to visit anywhere, we are ALL tourists at some point.

It’s just some of you believe you are the ‘right kind’ of tourists because you are middle class and visit ‘better places’. Reading the sneery comments about larger drinkers who like to sit by the pool who throw litter and are rude; do you really believe it’s only people on those holidays who throw litter and are rude? The ones who visit Blackpool and Benidorm? Give over.

Because I can tell you there are absolute arseholes talking to people like shit, being demanding and creating mess from all walks of life. And the way some of you talk about others on here, I expect you are just as sneery to waiting staff in real life. It might just be that YOU are the arsehole tourists or ‘cottage people’ the locals hate.

Funny, most of the people I can think of off-hand work in farming, teaching, housing, fishing industry, retail, factory work (yes really!) and car repair. My ex runs a fish and chip shop, but that's year round. Of course tourism employs some people, but it's far from all that's going on.

What people forget is the enormous numbers of self employed people not directly employed in tourism , but who get a large proportion of their income from it all the same. If we're talking about friends, I know many people who are builders, plumbers and electricians and they all spend a large amount of their time looking after holiday accommodation.

And it also depends greatly on where you live - if you live and work somewhere like Truro or St Austell for example, you are likely to know fewer people directly employed in tourism than on one of the coastal towns and villages, or the whole of the Lizard, or the whole of the Penwith peninsula. It's also failing to account for all the businesses whose owners have money to spend locally on the back of a successful season (or otherwise).

I know full well that over tourism is a pain in the backside (the traffic down here this summer has reduced me to rage several times) but to try and pretend tourism isn't very important to the local economy is disingenuous at best.

Bloody phone **they would feel welcome and would NOT feel so cross

Well, I’m a tourist who had a wonderful week in a quiet west Wales coastal town in June and I’m returning in a few weeks. There will always be the selfish, pig-ignorant holidaymakers wherever you go, thankfully the majority of holidaymakers are courteous and happy to be able to enjoy a different part of the country.
A nearby city to me is a tourist hotspot and I completely avoid it from Easter to November if I possibly can., purely because I hate crowds anywhere.
Wales is a beautiful country, there’s many places where you can enjoy it without joining the heaving throngs thank heavens!
I’ve already booked next years holiday, in Wales.