There is a phenomenon that some have called ‘the tourist syndrome’: consists of carrying out inappropriate or even uncivil behavior when we are on vacation, especially abroad.
There are many recent examples: tourists caught desecrating ancient roman villas with graffiti or throwing a bag of ‘Cheetos’ in a cave in a national park or harassing geishas in Kyoto, Japan.
A recent study conducted in October on 1,231 adults by travel analysts at Radical Storage, a luggage storage network, revealed that 56.5% of people experience ‘tourist syndrome’ and do “something out of the ordinary” while traveling.
In fact, almost half of the travelers surveyed They said they had broken a law during vacations that they would not have violated had they been in their country.
“Unfortunately, the results of this survey confirm what we already knew,” Giacomo Piva, co-founder of Radical Storage, told USA Today. “The tourism industry may have recovered from the impact of Covid-19but sadly the epidemic of bad behavior continues to threaten the future freedom of travel, with anti-tourist protests sweeping Europe.
“The fact that 56.5% of people admitted to having behaved badly and experienced ‘tourist syndrome’ on holiday shows us that it is not just that a few ruin the trips of manybut many ruin everyone’s trips,” adds Piva.
Almost half of them blame social networks for encouraging this bad tourist behavior. Four in ten travelers said their vacation “They are a time to relax and have a little fun” and “to get out of my comfort zone and make some memories.” About a third of those surveyed said that “you can act differently when no one knows you.”
In any case, 61% of those surveyed also added that there should be harsher punishments for travelers who behave badly. Nearly two-thirds also said they felt embarrassed by their travel companion’s bad behavior.
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