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

@znaika

The instagram thing was my exact gripe earlier in the thread. They are ginormous tosspots on another level to other tourists (we mainly get coach parties here and they can get in the way and slow things down but are definitely positive to the place- they add to it by having fun and being friendly even with language barriers and spending money) Instagrammers walk up peoples front paths and all take the same photo of themselves with their hand behind them on someone else's front door, sitting on the front gate, smelling someone else"s roses. They do mental things like bring pristine gardening equipment with them to pose in other people's front gardens as if they're pruning stuff. I had all my peonies stolen once. They rearrange my bay trees. If you come out and say this is my garden please leave they argue with you that yoy should be grateful because theyre an influencer. The coach parties pay for teas and pub lunches. The instagrammers argue with the pub landlord that they should get the drinks and lunch free as they're such important influencers. Moaning about influencers is one of my favourite rants!

I occasionally have self declared influencers contacting me to ask for free stuff at my business. They tell me how much reach they have and how much amazing exposure they could give us. They then proclaim figures that are actually less than the number of followers I have myself. I just ignore them. They really are something else!

Surely the real issue here is why we have so many feral badly behaved people.

I bet they are just the same when they are at home.

Try living with them permanently!!!! Some of us are not that bad.

I like that posters in this thread - that has sometimes been quite bitter and divisive - can come together to unanimously agree that ‘influencers’ are absolutely awful. At least that’s something that UK tourists, rural dwellers, Londoners etc can agree on!

The littering and roadside camping has been horrendous, there is still a converted horsebox camper complete with tyres thrown on the verge in the layby next to where I live, hopefully they will go soon.

I can tolerate most of it (everyone deserves a bit of freedom after the last 18 months), but the littering makes me so angry, they come here because it is beautiful and then trash it.

This year I've had two British holidays, one in June in Devon, the other in Bolton last week . I didn't feel unwanted in either, even when we popped up to the Lake District for a day. Neither did we see anyone creating trouble , apart from a couple of idiots who were running away from the police, swearing at them and then running a bit further.

@PrincessLeiaInlockdown

This thread should be taken down. OP is nothing but a pompous arrogant prick causing divisiveness amongst British holidays makers. People are paying high prices to holiday in the country. OP is neither a holiday maker nor in hospitality business.

Hasn’t Brexit divided us enough??

Indeed Brexit may well have divided us, but the OP is not being pompous, arrogant or divisiveness. They have experienced abuse and have the right to talk about it - just as much as any person. So it is hardly fair to be more abusive to them by calling them a "prick".

@justasking111

Instagrammers are non tippers and expect free meals and drinks because you know we're important like. Whereas in reality you cannot get their fake tan lotions out of the tablecloths, they're a necessary evil at the best of times

How do you know that out of interest?

@dayslikethese1

Multiple knifings OP? That's terrible

And likely hyperbole Do you recall reading anything in the national news about multiple stabbing in highly popular tourist resort in wales?

@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

YANBU OP, I've seen in some articles some 'tourists' have plonked their arses down at the holiday cottage then demanded the owner come up with some sort of itinerary for them - they were so used to hotels putting trips on they didn't realise they'd have to use their imagination this year.

People raging at restaurant staff, people raging in shops - it's despicable.

The litter on the beaches has been appalling. There were tents littering the beautiful bay, large thick Ikea bags, glass bottles just dumped.

However we found the Yorkshire coast to be, as ever, warm and welcoming. I can only hope that was down to nicer tourists than perhaps the South and Wales suffered, but it was probably because we wore masks and aren't arseholes.

@Marni83 They're well-known for it. I'm sure most successful business owners will tell you you'll be peppered with demands for freebies in exchange for "exposure to my 19 followers", and they get very nasty when you say no.

I sell vintage books and even I get them! They want them for their cottagecore photos and nag for the priciest titles. I am not polite to them.

I love that we're uniting in our common hatred of Instagrammers. I fantasize about getting Hot Fuzz style retribution for them, so long as Timothy Dalton moves to town too

Got to say I’m Welsh in Wales and loved driving down the prom and seeing it so busy down at the beach like rammed busy and bumper to bumper parking virtually.
Teenager works in a cafe and said it’s been great!

There is a lot of rage about at the moment. People seem to flip over the smallest things. I’ve noticed that a lot since the start of Covid

All these unusual tourists to UK would have been normally abroad giving Brits bad name.
Instead they make mess here this year.

People don't even have to travel far to not care and litter, local hotspots are just sad looking wastelands. It's disgusting

@justasking111

Instagrammers are non tippers and expect free meals and drinks because you know we're important like. Whereas in reality you cannot get their fake tan lotions out of the tablecloths, they're a necessary evil at the best of times

No - influencers are a completely unnecessary evil!!

No one needs them and they do so much harm to young people

I don’t work in retail, but was working (not customer facing) in a petrol station in touristy area. Staff were complaining about how aggressive some customers were -I assumed they meant one a day, something like that.

Nope. It was about every tenth customer - if you include all of it like from swearing at them, shouting, to threatening, to yelling in face, spitting, etc. So in a busy rural petroleum station, retirement-age woman who would’ve appeared to be working alone getting abused probably at least once of twice an hour, for asking them to “pop your mask on if you can”, in a minimum wage job. She didn’t get to make the rules on it herself. It wasn’t her fault.

The litter and shite (literally).

The disappointment of everywhere being so busy that it ruins it - so visitors do t have a great time either - just weight of numbers.

BUT, I really hope that the enthusiasm for SUP, inflatable kayaks, wild swimming etc means that people still visit wilder places year-round as it’s great to see people doing this stuff - I know that sounds really patronising but responsible access to beautiful wild places is important and many visitors then do things to help protect access to this (all the local dog walkers who don’t clean up or put Fido on a lead near livestock seriously jeopardise it).

@Wheresmybiscuit3

There is a lot of rage about at the moment. People seem to flip over the smallest things. I’ve noticed that a lot since the start of Covid

Agreed. I see it on the roads - I drive a lot and I've definitely noticed a shift in attitude - more impatience and aggression over the most unnecessary things. I encounter it on an almost daily basis and see it frequently around.

"You all"?

Not us, kid.

I live somewhere touristy. My family doesn't make our livings through tourists, though I suppose you could argue that some of the people who pay for our services are paid by tourists. Everything's interconnected, obviously.

But yes, it's annoying when everything's crammed full of people for months on end. Even if everyone's polite and well-behaved, too many people in one place is still too many people. I live here because my family does, and I stay here because it's my home. I wouldn't complain to the tourists, but sometimes it's a pain, and I'm not sorry for sometimes privately wishing the tourists weren't here.

@justasking111

I do wonder if people who sell up to retire in Wales realise how poor our NHS is. Up to five years waiting list for a hip operation now. Our roads aren't great, our public transport scant in many areas we can't get consultants who have young children because they're still climbing the greasy pole of promotion so want to work at the better hospitals. Their wives look at our schools and say no thanks.

It's not all roses here can't speak for other tourism areas.

Wow 🙄 That's strange, I live in Wales and I know quite a few consultants with babies and young children - no wives though as they're straight women 😮 Also just to bring you up on an earlier point, literally 100s of people in my community and social circle both speak and write in Welsh, including me and my husband - what strange, ill-informed ideas you have! And while we're at it, burning second homes was a real thing. HTH

This is what many shops in wales have to put up with. Zero fucking respect.

In my local tourist town, many of the shops have a politely worded sign saying (to the effects of)

"here in Wales, our masks-in store policy still applies so please, as uncomfortable as they are, please put one on! It saves us having to ask you directly".

There are signs in wales as they are still a legal requirement. Visitors cant be bothered to look that up.

I can remember reading an article on The Telegraph about a Cornish surfer crying out for business during the first lockdown last year. Wondering how he’ll survive and if business will ever recover for him. I hope he was more grateful for the income than you appear to be!