Try to choose less traveled destinations. I live in a touristy city and I would be really happy if the number of tourists dropped by 80%.
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Wouldn't that kill the place? I still remember getting at the end of tourist season to one of touristy locations in my country. It was straight up dead, shops closed, no pedestrians, locals even unregistered their trucks/busses. It was kinda eerie. Like, whole city just straight up died within maybe two weeks.
I don't think it would, tourism contributes only around 8% (first search result i found) of income in the city (Kraków) but drives locals out of city centre and drives house prices to the moon. I haven't been in any pub in city centre for years now. Back in 2020 when tourism was halted rents went down a lot and the centre was full of locals who suddenly didn't feel like guests in their own city. Back then I moved from renting a room in a shared flat to renting a 2 room apartment, closer to the city centre by myself and I didn't pay more at all. It didn't last long though.
Depends on the place. Cities that are also economical centers like London, Paris or Barcelona would probably be okay (locals in those places are usually in favor of less tourism, as it kind of kills their local vibes). Tourist only places might suffer.
Canada is also wonderful.
Canadian Rockies:
Kelowna, BC is also great, in Canadian wine country:
Northern Ontario is great for camping and nature:
Unless you'd prefer the beach and ocean, then somewhere like Prince Edward Island (PEI) is great, lots of fresh seafood:
Canada shouldn't be forgotten about because the USA is being, well, you know.
Does this list count visits from within one entity? I’m guessing it would list germans going to denmark, but not people from new york going to florida?
I visited the US once over a decade ago for a job interview.. Never have I felt more unwelcome in my life. Border control in the US are absolute assholes, significantly worse than anywhere else.. Cannot imagine what a shit experience it must be now.
My family is gonna have the month of August free... I wonder if we can go to Germany or something.
We've been to France, Spain, Italy, and the UK already... Turkey could be fun too, they have some good food over there, or so I've heard, though I believe we might have a bit of a harder time since we don't speak the language and they don't really speak English over there.
You’d be surprised how well Turkish people talk English, especially around Touristic destinations. Also we have the best food yeah.
I have to be frank... Turkey is beautiful and the food is sure to be amazing, but everything I've heard about the Turkish people has been rather discouraging...
I did end up reading an article that said that I can expect young people in the cities and several people in tourist destinations to speak English. I wonder how fluent the average Istanbul resident is.
Berlin is lovely in August. There's an FKK (free body culture) lake in the middle of the biggest forest of the city that is weirdly very family friendly, while also super gay. If you're family is up for that 😄 the German cuisine is nothing to call home about (unless you love sausages and potatoes, and even then) but Berlin has a huge vegan culture fused with all sorts of international cuisine. And probably the best falafel and kebabs maybe excluding the middle east.
Oh, and you can get the Deutschland Ticket which let's you travel the whole country for 1 month for just 59 euros (metros, buses, trams and regional trains, just not fast inter city trains)
If your family is up for that
Yeah, probably not haha!
Berlin has a huge vegan culture fused with all sorts of international cuisine.
That's very appealing.
the Deutschland Ticket
Now that would be awesome... We certainly wouldn't be there for the whole month though, and we'd definitely stick to one or two cities, so I'm not sure how useful that would be for the kind of travel we usually do. By myself, I'd definitely make use of that though... Maybe Germany should be my destination for solo travel. Well, there's a long while to go for summer, I guess we'll see!
Thanks for your input :D
49 euros is the price of one cross country ticket in the regional trains. A 7-day ticket just for Berlin is 45 euros. 59 for a month is well worth it even for a week.
If it still exists by August.
Right 🥹
Found out Paris has a Disney Land, so we're going there instead of the US from Canada.
Since Europe also had a great train network, we can also hit up Spain easy!
yeah let take a 6 hours flight to disneyland paris, that'd teach the yanks lmao
fkn idiot
Someone is triggered. I'm sorry you can't afford to fly.
Move to Europe
I go to the Netherlands every year for Roadburn. It's the best festival, if you like niche weirdo heavy music
Going to Romania in October, very excited to visit, going 10 days from Bucharest to Cluj.
Watch your wallet and back
It does sound amazing, particularly Cluj. Enjoy
You guys take planes? Fucking selfish
I just got back from Spain, going to Italy in the summer.
No.
Most people aren't interested in the actual monuments and art therefore they just want to boost their ego and have a photo to rub it on others. Most countries are not made for the massive influx and the citizen have been growing angry with movement to ban or restrict tourists on the raise.