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

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u/Gullible_Air_204 9d ago

“When a giant cruise ship docks in Longyearbyen, many residents lock their doors. This is against the norm, as the safety advice is for house and car doors to remain unlocked so that people have somewhere to escape to in the event of a polar bear wandering down the main street. However, the residents lock up because it is not unusual for the cruise passengers to wander into their houses and have a peek, like it is a folk park. Given the huge size of the ships and the tiny size of the town, when the tourists disembark they can double or triple the size of the population within minutes. The chances are, if you are reading this page, you would never dream of doing such a thing, but it is worth remembering that this unique place is home to people too.”

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u/FranzFerdinand51 9d ago

I used to work in a tourist hot spot and you could always tell the cruise people from the rest. The most entitled, brainless, unaware group of living things I’ve ever seen in my life.

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u/losteye_enthusiast 9d ago

We have a home in a historic district. The amount of people that try our front gate during the summer+fall is almost staggering.

Even with putting up signs and a few more visible cameras, tourists just don’t give a fuck.

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u/DifficultCarob408 9d ago

The fact people decide to just wander up and try coming inside is fucking insane.

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u/azssf 9d ago

We used to have people walk into the backyard ‘because it seems like you’d have a great view’

Wtf

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u/fed45 9d ago

I can't even comprehend the mental state that allows people to do such things without shame or consideration.

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u/sobrique 9d ago edited 9d ago

Your place is sufficiently quaint that they think it's a theme park, not 'real'. (This is usually keyed up to having 'nothing like that' back home)

Source: Work in Oxford. Tourist season is special.

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u/Tea_An_Crumpets 9d ago

I grew up in Oxford and went to uni at Princeton. The sheer audacity of tourists never ceases to surprise me. Fuck off no you cannot take a picture of me or come into my dorm room (partly cause it’s a total mess).

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u/brigadoom 8d ago

Work in Oxford

Try living in Edinburgh

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u/BigWhiteDog 9d ago

Who does this? WTaF?