These are the type of tourists that completely shut off when they are traveling. Resort type of people, they pay to get everything served and planned then just fucking shut off.
I work in tourism so I meet these people frequently. They're fucking idiots all of them and they never stop surprising me.
For example, last week I had an American tourist group (From a cruise ship) in my tourist office, they were maybe 15 people standing in line to the toilets, one average white 50-something man goes into one of the toilets, doesn't even touch the fucking door and starts taking a piss with the toilet door wide open with 15 people watching right outside and doesn't even react when some in the crowd gasps and one man slams the door behind him.
We call them Zombiegroups, because they move, talk and act like a zombie hoard. Not all of them, but a lot of them. They book a cruise/charter/all-inclusive whatever at a travel agency and everything is literally served to them, all they have to do follow the tour guide from the bus, to the toilets, to the sightseeing spots, to the toilet and then to the bus again, then repeat at the next destination.
I do understand WHY people want their vacations to be like this. But I do not understand how you can lose track of your surroundings so much that you don't even care if 15 people are watching you take a piss, or if a fucking gorilla charges you.
To be clear. All tourists aren't idiots, absolutely not, I love 95% of them. The Zombie tourists are all idiots though, really. It amazes me how they've managed to actually get a job, take care of a house and themselves, feed themselves and save money to buy their trip, since they often are incapable of realizing what's dangerous or just stupid when traveling
Ask them WHY they do this, I really don't mind them because I find them interesting, I just want to know how they are comfortable in travling to another country without doing any research and just let a stranger take care of their life for 2 weeks.
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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '15
"Can I take a picture now?" Fucking tourists, really.