Yet another example of local communities and cultures bending under the selfishness and narcissist tendencies of today's holiday makers.
It’s easy to see why Paris’s Rue Crémieux is such a hit on Instagram.
Filled with small pastel-painted houses, weathered cobblestones, and blooming window boxes, the car-free street near Bastille has become one of Europe’s most popular spots to strike a pose, with the hashtag #ruecremieux now linking to over 31,000 images.
But the popularity of this Instagrammer’s paradise is making it hell for residents. Sick of influencers, rappers, yoga aficionados, and fashion shoots blocking their doorways, Rue Crémieux’s residents have had enough. This week, the street’s residents’ association demanded that the city of Paris protect their privacy by closing the street to visitors on evenings and weekends.
Residents of the street certainly make the Instagram onslaught sound wearisome. According to Antoine, a Rue Crémieux resident interviewed by radio station France Info, the street’s ’grammability has turned daily life there into an ordeal.
“We sit down to eat and just outside we have people taking photos—rappers who take two hours to film a video right beneath the window, or bachelorette parties who scream for an hour. Frankly, it’s exhausting.”
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/03/rue-cremieux-paris-instagram-tourists-where-to-take-pictures/584164/
We see it everywhere now. Local cultures and communities being nothing more than the playthings and Like-vehicles of the modern "open minded" traveller. These people treat the world like their own private zoo and care nothing for its inhabitants of the state of it.
Aside from all this, they're happy to destroy the planet with all the air pollution.
I personally think private air travel should be banned. The planet cannot take it. Not sure about how to limit the destruction of local communities and ways of life by inbound arsehles. Maybe some quota for the amount of visitors to each place?
