About Stupid Tourists
Stupid Tourists is an travel website where tour guides from all over the world annoymously upload articles, stories, quotes and questions from tourists who should have known better.
Tour Guide Frustration
We were born out of tour guide frustration. Tour guiding can be a great job. Depending on who you work for or how effective you are as a guide it can be well paid, enjoyable and gives a lot of personal freedom.
However, it has its frustrations.
Stupid Tourists
We deal with people who are afraid of foreign countries, who know nothing about where they are going, who do no research in to their holiday or vacation, who believe and verbalise ridiculous and offensive stereotypes, who insult and cannot remember our names five minutes after we told you, who are rude to and have in some (very rare) cases physically assaulted tour guides.
Nobody’s Perfect
Don’t get us wrong, most tourists are lovely people, and there are bad tour guides just like their are bad teachers, contractors or politicians. If you’ve experienced a crap tour guide, we are genuinely sorry for that – we’ve all been disappointed by someone who didn’t do their job properly.
Tourists are Worse than Tour Guides
However tourists outnumber guides and their behaviour is not always exemplary. As well as usually knowing nothing about the country they are visiting except for stereotypes, tourists can take it out on a guide because they are tired (why take a tour, have a nap), don’t want to be where they are (why did you go) or in some cases don’t tip for an excellent tour which exceeded expectations. Just as students are expected to behave and be nice to the teacher, the same applies to tourists with their guide.
Tour Guides Vent, Tourists learn
The aim of this site is to serve as way for guides to funnily vent their experiences without it harming their careers and for tourists to come across the site and hopefully learn something from it and become better people in the process. Just like our parents (hopefully) thought us, be nice!