Why tourists are a good thing

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6-07-2010 @ 1:23PM

Phil said...

Generally speaking, tourists are more welcome than travellers.

In France communes have to provide designated sites for travellers to park their caravans, but often they ignore these (I'm not sure if there are charges for use of the standpipes and so on) and use another available piece of land - squatting in a farmer's field on the outskirts of a village, for instance, or in the village recreation ground.

For this reason you'll often find the entrance to sites earmarked for redevelopment have their entrances blocked by boulders - but travellers even use earthmoving equipment to shift these.

They do buy goods from supermarkets, which you might think is good for the local economy, but the incidence of shoplifting also usually increases, too.

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