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PistachioTiramisuLimoncello · 2025-08-09T17:16:30+00:00

Does anyone else wish they’d stop posting about beautiful places they go on holiday? So many places ruined by ridiculous amounts of people. It didn’t used to be like this.

shellyleppard · 09/08/2025 18:17

Just as bad in the UK with tourists. Recently in Edinburgh and they were standing in the middle of the road taking pictures!!! Or the pavement....

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PistachioTiramisuLimoncello · 09/08/2025 18:18

So annoying.

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shellyleppard · 09/08/2025 18:20

Definitely 💯 I use a Zimmer frame to get around and the amount of times someone walked into me because they were on their phone.....so bloody annoying

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 09/08/2025 18:20

On holiday in Singapore we came across an instagram hot spot for photos. People were lining up for quite some time, waiting to have their photo taken. Totally nuts.

Volturra · 09/08/2025 18:32

I think it’s part of a bigger problem with commodifying travel. Reducing places and cultures to cliched instantly recognisable images isn’t a new thing, but the reach of the internet, the ease with which we can all share very polished images and the incentives for creating content have combined with cheap travel to turbocharge the effects. Saturation means everyone’s looking for the next place or thing too, which means it’s harder to avoid. No one creating travel content these days is going to get far confining themselves to the old tourist hotspots - novelty rules.

TheGander · 13/08/2025 21:36

Just wondering did that means that the crowds will move on eventually from certain places once they lose their novelty value? Here’s hoping ….

Crushed23 · 14/08/2025 18:31

Volturra · 09/08/2025 18:32

I think it’s part of a bigger problem with commodifying travel. Reducing places and cultures to cliched instantly recognisable images isn’t a new thing, but the reach of the internet, the ease with which we can all share very polished images and the incentives for creating content have combined with cheap travel to turbocharge the effects. Saturation means everyone’s looking for the next place or thing too, which means it’s harder to avoid. No one creating travel content these days is going to get far confining themselves to the old tourist hotspots - novelty rules.

More people can afford to travel or are prioritising travel over other expenses. I find travelling off season is a little better but not by much. May and September are becoming very busy months. Ditto January and November for winter sun breaks.

There are a couple of places I have visited in the last few years that appear to still be undiscovered. I am trying to go back to them before they inevitably become popular. (Of course like most travellers I have the classic ‘other people are tourists’ attitude.)