35 Times Tourists Made Everyone Around Them Visibly Uncomfortable
As an American, I’m hyper aware of how I’m perceived the second I step off a plane somewhere else. I try to be respectful when I’m somewhere else, keeping my voice low in restaurants, not being the loudest person in any room, because the reputation precedes us whether we like it or not.
But bad tourist behavior isn’t exclusive to any one country. It’s a universal thing that shows up everywhere, from every kind of traveler. Loud in quiet places, entitled with locals, completely unaware that everyone around them is silently begging for them to stop.
These pics call out every kind of rude tourist, wherever they’re actually from. Try not to recognize someone you’ve traveled with.
1. Peacock
2. Stealing
3. “On Holocaust Memorial Day Let’s Remember To Teach The Next Generation To Respect Solemn Historical Sites And Not Every Photo Should Be A ‘Fun’ Shot”
4. “The World Would Be An Immensely Better Place With An Increase In Both Self-Awareness And Situational Awareness”
5. “Thanksgiving In London”
6. “Opened Her Purse And Tried To Stuffing Duck Into It”
7. “Most Normal Tourist At The Art Institute”
8. “U-S-A”
9. “There Is A Reason Why They Hide The Accurate Actual Artifacts/Relics/Evidence”
10. “Kerið Crater, Iceland. Don’t Walk On The Ice”
11. “Australia Is A Fake”
12. “Photoshoot Studio”
13. “Central Park, NYC”
14. “Petting Zoo”
15. “Start Fights”
16. “Finds Out Euros Aren’t Optional”
17. “Driving On The Wrong Side Of The Road”
18. “Clip Toe Nails”
19. “Tourists Tie Trash To The Brooklyn Bridge. It Looks Terrible And It Ends Up Falling Into The East River”
“It started with ‘love locks’, which are also bad for the bridge. In 2016, a cable snapped under the weight of the locks. Tourists started tying whatever they had with them to the fencing, including hair ties, tissues, receipts, napkins, plastic bags, panties, bracelets, hair clips, tampons, and more.”
20. “Vatican”
21. “Today On: Tourists In Tokyo. These Tourists Left Their Actual Underwear On The Tables, I Pray They Were Drying Clean Laundry”
22. “Language”
23. “A Tourist Of 17y Carved The Name ‘Julian’ Into A 1,200-Year-Old Unesco World Heritage Temple In Nara”
24. “For A Photo”
25. “Usual Disrespectful Tourist”
26. “Personal Space”
27. “These Tourist Literally In The Middle Of The Road”
“For those who don’t know, this is a highway in Monument Valley, Arizona, and the reason it’s popular is because of the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, in which they filmed a scene here. However, there are so many people just walking and standing in the middle of the road, treating it like a sidewalk.”
28. “Trashing”
29. “In A Full Train (Europe), Some Americans Thinking Their Luggage Needs To Have A Seat Too”
30. “Escalators”
31. “Signs Weren’t In English In Paris”
32. “She Owns Kyoto, It’s Her World And We Are Living In It”
33. “Bus Seats”
34. “Tourists In Iceland Ignoring Signs”
35. “Selfie With A Black Man”
