I’ve lived in a tourist destination - hence I will never be one. I have no desire to travel to someone’s home town just to look at their way of life like visiting a zoo. I have a dislike of travelers in large groups.
Sounds like living in Charleston, S.C.
My work took me there & I usually wore a necktie. Got stopped all the time by tourists asking directions. Annoying.
What’s exotic to some is ho-hum to others. Why travel?
” I have no desire to travel to someone’s home town just to look at their way of life like visiting a zoo.”
I’m sure that’s not why people go to Venezia. Watching the natives isn’t the draw; it’s the centuries of history. And perhaps imagining how the doge’s lived in the 7th or 13th century.