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Terri Willard
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When tourists go wild...
August 21, 2003 - 01:01 AM
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How can tourist destinations set up ways to keep tourists under control...?
It seems like many times, nice normal polite people end up going totally psycho on vacations and doing things they would never consider doing in their own home town/country.
Case in point... According to CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/08/21/greece.binges.reut/index.html), "Alarmed by the drink related deaths of two Britons and outraged by a video showing an oral sex contest on the beach, the [Greek] authorities launched a clamp down this week on indecent behavior by foreigners in some of its top resorts."
What's the psychology driving that kind of behaviour on the part of tourists? How do you break those patterns of tourist behaviour?
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Mikael
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Re: When tourists go wild...
August 21, 2003 - 07:11 AM
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By definition, tourists go on vacation to escape their every day lives, to live a different experience for a few days, weeks or months... often this is accompanied by a sense of 'release', because when you do something in another country, unless it's illegal, it won't have the same consequences as when you do it in your own area.
This means that tourists are more likely to go wild even if they're relatively conservative in 'real life'. Especially when alcohol is involved, which it often is. I don't think you can avoid that kind of behaviour. Take Cancun, for example - people go there, go crazy and do things they'd never do normally, and then come back to their homes and normal lives. Cancun encourages that kind of behaviour because it brings them so many tourists and money, and that's the driving factor there. It can get out of hand though, in which case you'll have measures like the Greek ones, where they're clamping down on 'indecent' activities.
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mo3taz nassar
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Re: When tourists go wild...
August 24, 2003 - 05:31 AM
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may be that happens because a tourist is escaping from his usual boring life ib=n his country, seeking an unusual life in a new country. if this thought takes control over his/her thinking, he/she would behave in an unusual way. what the unusual way looks like depends on the tourist's personality and cultural background
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Hugh Switzer
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Re: When tourists go wild...
August 25, 2003 - 11:00 AM
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It is a really interesting problem. Most places (such as Cancun) who depend on the tourist industry sometimes must look the other way. If they stop it, then the tourists stop coming as well as the income. There must be limits to things like the one mentioned above, but in all honestly... think of how many dollars were brought to the area.. and was this (gross) display of people really hurt anyone?
If anything it helped the local economy. In this case, (Greece) tourism isn't the only economy, but there are many places like this that without the tourists with the big bucks they would be shanty towns like so many areas in the world.
Sometimes questionable income is the only income.
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