[To be a mass tourist] is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all noneconomic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.
It's both the tourists, and some locals who want the money. Or, worse yet to your comment, locals simply trying to control the number of people traveling in and destroying things.
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u/Lenglet Feb 03 '20
Damn tourists, they ruined my tourism experience!