One might have fondly imagined that businesses and governments across Europe would welcome the return of all tourists, even the British ones. However, this attitude is rather shocking in a post-pandemic world still reeling from Covid. If holiday bosses want to upgrade their reputations, then they must first upgrade their facilities instead of condemning their customers.īritish holidaymakers were recently offended by comments from the president of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, who suggested the island wanted to attract 'higher-quality' tourists and rely less on boorish Brits Not all of whom, it goes without saying, behave badly. So many of these resorts and tourist areas set themselves up as budget destinations then blame the British when they get matching budget customers. I mean, Andrew Lloyd Webber has a holiday home there, how much more middle-class can it get? The rest of the island is posh and expensive and soaked with high-spending Brits. Yet S'Arenal, the German equivalent, never gets mentioned in despatches and, if anything, is even worse. Certainly the party town of Magaluf is notorious for bad Brit behaviour, and there is no excusing that. Nicole Kidman recently made a film there - perhaps this giddy brush with Hollywood has gone to their heads. After taking our money for decades, Mallorca now wants to shake off its reputation as a cheap drink destination by limiting the number of UK tourists. Lucia Escribano, director of tourism for Mallorca, recently announced that the Balearic island is 'not interested in having budget tourists from the UK' any more. Or the British woman who complained in 2018 that her holiday in Benidorm was ruined because her hotel had 'too many Spaniards'. Like the 19 British tourists who were fined for jogging naked through the streets of Calvia on Mallorca in 2017. Now this welcome has worn as thin as a Newcastle bride's thong, as the shutters are being slammed down.īe fair - can you blame them? If we are being honest here, we should admit that when travelling abroad most British holidaymakers will do absolutely everything in their power to avoid other British holidaymakers - even the nice ones.Īnd the horrible ones are utterly without redemption or saving graces. They mean the free-spending yobs and yobettes on the stag party and hen-do circuit, the demi-ruffians on jollies who frequent the red light districts, sex shops, drugs cafes and bars of Amsterdam, primarily because of decades-long government-sponsored advertising campaigns which have encouraged them to do exactly that. Or the school party from Edinburgh who have booked an afternoon at the Anne Frank Museum.Īmsterdam's new campaign - succinctly dubbed 'Stay Away' - wants to actively deter British tourists from taking a dip in the warm cultural bath of the Netherlands I don't think they mean Gladys and Tom from Cheam who want to look at the tulips and enjoy the glories of the Dutch masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum. I mean, come on Maria, at least our tattoos are spelt rite.Īnd now Amsterdam's new campaign - succinctly dubbed 'Stay Away' - wants to actively deter British tourists from taking a dip in the warm cultural bath of the Netherlands. Just because Brits fill their pockets with boiled eggs and bread rolls from the breakfast buffet and/or are drunk on giant goblets of gin by 4pm? If that were a sin, you could put half of Europe in tourist jail. What? Excuse moi? Are the German and the Swedes really so much superior when it comes to holiday etiquette? Yet still we find ourselves superfluous to needs.īritish holidaymakers were recently offended by comments from the president of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, who suggested the island wanted to attract 'higher-quality' tourists and rely less on boorish Brits. One of the great ironies of life in Great Britain is that while hundreds of thousands risk their lives to live here, hundreds and thousands of Brits are not welcomed abroad.Īnd the great UK unwanted don't even want to live abroad or enter countries illegally they just wish to visit briefly, splash hard-earned cash on the local economy before returning home happy complete with a tan and a set of nibbles dishes from an overpriced pottery.
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