For me a good sign of a mass tourism area is where there’s people in front of restaurants asking people to step in to eat
A map of ATMs designed to scam tourists in Europe
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#62If you visit them they'll become "ugly mass tourism places". Better to not identify them and stay at your area, unless absolutely necessary (i.e. not for tourism).
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#63I have wondered is there actually anything wrong with mass tourism? Wouldn't properly build for tourism destinations actually be overall better option? As long as they do not become over relied on. At least if we must have tourism and do not ban it altogether... Mass tourism would allow optimization for environment and not to destroy areas that people actually work and live in. See the AirBnB effect for example. And…
The thing is if you have to take the plane to get there you're already a major net negative for the environment, and that would get rid of most mass tourism places We should live like our grandparents, a few (if any) big trips in your lifetime, everything else: in your country or close neighboring ones.
If you really want to reduce your carbon emissions you can start smoking, that will cut years off your life expectancy and, as a consequence, your lifetime carbon emissions.
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#64These ATMs are plenty useful for contributing to the local money laundering industry. More signals are unlisted prices, fading storefronts, fluorescent lights. Read more about what’s happening in London https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/oxford-street-candy-sho... It’s not about scamming tourists at its core, it’s about avoiding electronic banking networks and pulling cash back into the system. Disclaimer: Amsterda…
A lot of the London candy store thing is about not paying the very expensive business rates to the council. They are all owned by foreign controlled companies which just go bust come enforcement time.
They are not much of a guide to bad areas, for example American Candyland (bad) is opposite Selfridges (popular). Streetview: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.514156,-0.1516145,3a,75y,1...
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#65Go on tinder. If you swipe through 100 profiles and see a place more than once, avoid it like the plague. Probably him/her too.
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#66These ATMs are plenty useful for contributing to the local money laundering industry. More signals are unlisted prices, fading storefronts, fluorescent lights. Read more about what’s happening in London https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/oxford-street-candy-sho... It’s not about scamming tourists at its core, it’s about avoiding electronic banking networks and pulling cash back into the system. Disclaimer: Amsterda…
>it’s about avoiding electronic banking networks and pulling cash back into the system
So it's beneficial to society!
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#67The mention of the presence of a Spar supermarket in Europe being a marker for overtouristed areas seems oddly area specific. In most European countries which have them these are bog-standard supermarkets.
They are absolutely everywhere in Ireland, from countryside to city centre, rich and poor areas.
And there are also tons of Irish pubs!
Therefore, all of Ireland is a ugly mass tourist place.
QED.
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#68Euronet ATMs being a scam is a very americentric view. The world is not /primarily/ designed to rip off tourist. Very evident with this map that just appears to be a differently labeled population heat map.
Even as a European I can confidently say that Euronet ATMs are complete, utter scam and they have a tendency to show up in most scammy tourist areas to prey on foreigners. Even here across southern Europe they always start popping up in areas that usually have other seedy businesses preying on people. Lately they don't even show their brand and colors anymore... only showing foreign languaged "ATM" sign with no bank…
Same goes for Eastern Europe, and I have the same recommendation, avoid them like the plague.
Also (and maybe this only applies for Bucharest, but good to know regardless), avoid changing currency (USD to local RON, in Romania's case) just as you get off the airplane, the exchange rates inside the airport are rip-offs pure and simple. The currency exchange shops inside Bucharest proper are more than decent, though, no rip-offs there.
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#69The mention of the presence of a Spar supermarket in Europe being a marker for overtouristed areas seems oddly area specific. In most European countries which have them these are bog-standard supermarkets.
Maybe I'm wrong but that's probably only true in DACH and maybe a couple other1 surrounding places. Outside that sphere, the rule does seem to apply that Spar is a mass tourist smell.
In Austria, Spar is one of the two major supermarket chains. (The other one is Billa.)
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are absolutely everywhere in Ireland, from countryside to city centre, rich and poor areas.
Was going to say the same thing. There’s zero correlation between touristy spots and Spar in Ireland, unless East Wall has suddenly become a tourist hot spot without me hearing about it
Kin has really had the Sherif Street tourism industry breaking new ground