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

I live in Uni town and I’m always glad when the students leave in the summer, so I do see where your coming from OP.

The littering issue particularly resonates.

@cruisecrazy

I am afraid there has been a lot of upsets on all sides this summer. A local near me with a holiday cottage that sleeps 6 was amazed when 30 people! arrived to stay. They were given 1 hour to vacate the property. They thought that 30 people could have slept in sleeping bags! They complained loudly saying it was there holiday, unbelievable.

Happened to my friend in a village they had paid the deposit for a two bedroom cottage a dozen turned up. Ignored requests for balance of monies. Luckily friend husband walked into village pub explained the problem the lads went up in force and offered to help them pack up and go. The renters were on a spiritual retreat but paid up. Different religion my friend said drily 😅

I don't think it's over over yet, but yes - hooray!

YANBU but your OP is a little unbalanced - most visitors are nice, I think, but unfortunately it's the tw**s that you remember. I live on the outskirts of a normal (not touristy) village and my house is one of 3. We are now the only year round residents as one is an air BNB and the other is a second home. I am pissed off with all the supermarket delivery vehicles blocking my drive and my 'neighbours' don't like my chickens. Also all the traffic on our road. I want to move but anywhere half decent is snapped up the minute it comes on the market. I can't wait till it gets quieter.

to try and pretend tourism isn't very important to the local economy is disingenuous at best

It is important but it's not what keeps the county afloat all year round. Estimates are around one in three jobs rely on tourism. A big number but it's not the majority.

not keeping to local speed limits

And being very ignorant of passing places, and good driving manners on narrow country roads.

@stepupandbecounted

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.

Well if you think four letter rants are acceptable it's mostly young people or women in hospitality retail then please don't return we don't need your potty mouthed types

You wear masks in shops?! In Hong Kong you cannot walk your dog on trails/ leave your house without one. You can’t sit on beach without one. And it’s 30 degrees high humidity so hard to breathe with them on. This has been 18 months with no change.

@ThreeLittleDots

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

Can you not find an ice cream stand closer to home.

We spent a week in North Somerset and a week in Carmarthenshire .

I was amazed at how empty both places were . Particularly loved Wales ,such lovely beaches and woods .Free parking in many places .
All shopkeepers ,pubs v v friendly and kind .

I would never swear at anyone for any reason, but for some people I imagine the disappointment has just been too much after the last few years.

Working in the industry requires a thicker skin than the one you have, diplomacy which is a quality clearly lacking and empathy.
These people are broken, their mental health impaired, their ability to cope limited. Why not try being nicer/compassionate rather than just mindlessly barking back?
I find the minute you show people genuine compassion and kindness their anger tends to melt away and they usually apologise. Why not try it? Some people will be very bereaved and struggling, but you don't seem to care as long as you can fleece them for every penny and slag them off.

I sincerely hope you are on the bones of your arse next year.

I live in a tourist area and tbh I love seeing the tourists coming back this year. My town is heaving and I have not been out much because there is simply no poijt trying to get a table anywhere, but like alot of seaside locations we are hugely economically depressed and we need the tourist trade to survive. I have no issues with second homers either as they pay a fair whack of council tax and use little of the services.

But I own a very small B&B so yes this is my bread and butter nowadays also.

It is important but it's not what keeps the county afloat all year round. Estimates are around one in three jobs rely on tourism. A big number but it's not the majority.

The poster I originally referred to said that tourism employs a tiny tiny minority in Cornwall, which is demonstrably untrue. 33% reliant on one sector is a fairly hefty proportion.

And it still fails to take into account, for example, the small scale lobster potter or line fishermen or who sells direct to restaurants (small example).

There is a concerted push in Cornwall to spread existing tourism through more months of the year. It has been recognised that saturation point has been reached, and that there isn't the physical capacity in a long, thin peninsula, for ever growing tourism in the summer months. I'm not sure this is entirely feasible myself - there's a wet and windy reason why November and January are quiet months in Cornwall. You might get older or child-free people taking breaks out of season, but it's unlikely to be their main holiday.

Personally I don't get why so many people are obsessed with coming to Cornwall, beautiful though it is. There are other parts of the country which are nice, and which probably have better weather, and are probably less busy and a shorter drive!

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.

Give over, the A30 has been a horror road since I was a child in the 70's. Looking at it right now it's got long orange and red lines all over it, of course drivers will try and find alternative routes.

Jeez stepup practise what you preach why don't you !

@stepupandbecounted hit a nerve??

I'm not in hospitality my derriere is fine thanks

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
My mistake. I forgot that good jobs are really plentiful in Cornwall, that's what people are going there for.

@LCHF2018

You wear masks in shops?! In Hong Kong you cannot walk your dog on trails/ leave your house without one. You can’t sit on beach without one. And it’s 30 degrees high humidity so hard to breathe with them on. This has been 18 months with no change.

Well that sounds ridiculous and nothing to aspire to.

Personally I don't get why so many people are obsessed with coming to Cornwall, beautiful though it is. There are other parts of the country which are nice, and which probably have better weather, and are probably less busy and a shorter drive!

completely agree !

The poster I originally referred to said that tourism employs a tiny tiny minority in Cornwall, which is demonstrably untrue

That was me too. My first comment said 'economy', my second referred to jobs. Two different things. A lot of money generated from tourism leaves the county and doesn't benefit locals.

Yes, Wales has had it worse for sure. It’s been a blast everywhere else. FFS

But I do agree with you that some tourists behave very badly. And some of those tourists in other parts of the UK are……yes, you guessed it; Welsh.

Every country has it’s share of dickheads. And we’ve all had our share of COVID. Everyone will have a story to tell at the end of this. I don’t like the tone though of your post; it reads a little too hostile with all accountability laid at the door of other countries’ tourists, & no recognition of the fact that the Welsh are occasionally tourists themselves, some of whom display equally horrible behaviours when on holiday.

Such an insular point of view. You’re glad the tourists have gone - the horrid ones - but so are we all. You do not exist in isolation, and what you feel is not unique. Let’s hope the well-behaved tourists return to your country next year to boost your local economies. The dickhead ones will probably bigger off to Tenerife (including the % of Welsh dickhead ones.)

If you do meteorological studies the West coast of Britain is reliably wet in July August. September early October, January on the other hand sunny if cooler.

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.

I mean obviously she was referring to the local main road as a motorway when it's not one. I mean, DUH :o

And yes, the massive delays between Chiverton and Carland Cross is because they are dualling it. Unfortunately this will take ages, and there will be traffic jams throughout the year.

Not at all just but we had a shocking time!!! Fawlty towers would not do it justice. I found the primitive attitude, the poor service and surly shopkeepers, waiters with no training and a general gone to the dogs feeling not what I went on holiday for. I am one of the lucky ones too! I haven't lost anyone in the pandemic and feel fine, I could see just by looking that it was not the case for everyone.

You sound like a really unkind unpleasant bitter person, and not an asset to any company anywhere. Why not move if you hate it so much?

Oh god how many more of these threads do we have to have?

Reading the swiss and Spanish comments on here they have European knuckle draggers of their own