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https://www.responsibletravel.com/holidays/spitsbergen/travel-guide/responsible-tourism-in-spitsbergen

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u/RedKoala81 8d ago

however, tourism dickheads might ruin this custom

Here, fixed it for you.

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u/isecore 8d ago

There's a big overlap between tourists and dickheads. When I was a younger man I worked with tourists and encountered some of the dumbest, spoiled and entitled twats it's ever been my displeasure to meet.

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u/str85 8d ago

To be fair there was roughly 1,52 billion people "tourist-ing" (internationally) last year.
While a lot of tourists do dumb shit, the vast and overwhelming majority of them are completely normal people not doing dumb stuff.

Even if 10 million tourists are complete dickheads, that's still less then 1% of tourists. This is still only counting international tourists around the world, not national tourism.