‘England’s most beautiful village’ flooded by ‘intolerable’ TikTok tourists, as residents hit back
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/bibury-cotswolds-tourists-tiktok/
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‘England’s most beautiful village’ flooded by ‘intolerable’ TikTok tourists, as residents hit back
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/bibury-cotswolds-tourists-tiktok/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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Tourism is increasingly unpopular with the residents of tourist destinations recently. I wonder what’s contributing to that?
I live just down the road from Bibury. They just need to ban coaches or put in some width restrictions so it’s only cars.
My issue with tourists here, is that they just don’t give a fuck. There is no respect of peoples boundaries
Tourists are a nightmare but it’s a beautiful place to see. Hopefully a sensible compromise is made
I don’t remember the Cotswolds being a hive of international tourism. It was the sort of place you might take your wife for a weekend away or treat your parents to an anniversary dinner and a mooch round an antique shop.
Now I constantly see reddit threads from prospective international tourists looking to spend an entire trip in the Cotswolds alone. I mean I do get it, I like them too and am lucky not to live too far away and in a town with similar charms – but it does seem bizarre how they seem to have come to the attention of the whole world all of a sudden.
That time tourists came to Bibury and [hated it](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-31037446).
There are many places in the UK, even within cities, that are very quiet. Being flooded with tourists doesn’t make it less beautiful. The countryside was never historically a place just for the quiet, the shy, or the in any ways ‘retiring’.
Ironic that so many people don’t realise the natural beauty of a lot of the uk, except when it starts to inconvenience them.
As a UK resident, I stayed in a local b&b in this village last year and went out when the tourists had gone and used it as a base to explore the rest of the the Cotwolds
Yes it’s a tourist destination but wow its bedlam and crazy.
Tiny old village with small roads and limited parking/facilities and infrastructure.
Coaches turn up throughout the day causing carnage full of tourists who just got off a plane, mostly from east Asia.
The pubs all have separates areas for tourists and signage/menu in their language.
Apparently there’s issues where tourists don’t realise or treat the houses as private redidences and they go into gardens or try doors etc so they’ve had to put signage up.
People live there and their homes are spectated by those outside them staring and wandering all over all day.
Once a sleepy quiet village, still beautiful just chock full of people.
I stopped at Bourton-on-the-Water on the way back from somewhere and it was heaving with people. People from all over the world. It was just a random weekend too. Not that I have an issue with multi-cultural tourism, it was just surprising. Because, while pretty and posh, it is just an ordinary English village. Must be hell for locals.
Friend of mine used to live on the cobbled street in Clovelly, Devon. No word of a lie, 4 Chinese tourists opened her front door and walked in not realising they were actually homes 😂
Bibury is stunning and has been “flooded” with tourists for 30 years, each summer, that i know of…
Don’t the residents in these UK towns go on cruise and bus tours in other countries. So why can’t they accept when people come to their towns.
I live in a shithole area and like to visit nice places occasionally. I’ve visited Oxford, York, the Lakes and north Wales in the last year. Sorry.
South Asian tourists are the worse . I’ve seen many of them dancing in every corner for TikTok videos and have no respect for locals . Sometimes can see them shouting to their camera .. Insta and TikTok are a menace and total brain rot.
My friends live there. I believe a Japanese Emperor visited Bibury once and it has now become a must see destination for Japanese tourists. The village needs to ban the coaches though, or find some method to lower the numbers as there is neither the space nor the infrastructure to support it. They’ll want tourists for the money, but it’s nuts on a weekend.
No way I’ve worked there, parked my van literally where that grey car is
There were many Chinese tourists there. Very nice and respectful and all (as far as I saw for my half a day) but I can see why the residents are growing tired of it 🙈
>intentionally limit development nearby to keep yourself desirable, and house prices high
>get annoyed when people come to see place you’ve kept undeveloped by artificially inflating cost kf development
Yup, its rural england time.
Visited the trout farm at Bibury as a child, I live 20 mins away, but guess I’m still technically a tourist. Took my children back this year on a weekday in winter. The experience of getting into the village was horrendous. Took nearly an hour to park, most of which was spent queuing for the parking ticket machine. Would have bailed but the family had hopped out to find a toilet and I had no signal to reach them. Thankfully once inside, the trout farm itself was relatively quiet, kids loved it, but the village was just utter chaos, gridlocked traffic, people honking and shouting at each other, felt more like there was a festival or Grand Prix that had just ended. Felt so sorry for the people who live there.
Wait until they build a new build next door and house migrants there well then that will see something.
That’s the plan. Where else are these new builds going to go? Has to be the green belt.
People decide to live in a scenic spot, then get angry when *other people* want to briefly visit the scenic spot.
It’s a problem all across the UK. In my area, it’s mostly retirees who moved to a barn conversion because they like a view of the landscape, and then they decide to block footpaths &c because of all the *other people* who like a view of the landscape. And in urban areas you have the nitwits who move next to a bar and then complain about noise from the bar, and try to restrict their alcohol licensing.
Tik tok is really weird for making people suddenly flock to things that aren’t new in any way, like all those people who have only just heard of jacket potatoes.
I bet this place has this to deal with for 6 months and then nothing ever again as Tiktok discovers the sea or wearing shoes or something.
I visited there once and couldn’t believe that the tourists were walking into people’s private front gardens and taking photos by the door. Awful behaviour.
the tour operators do not organize the drop off or pickup of tourists, results in 3/4 or more coaches blocking a single lane road leading to the bridge as there is only space for two coaches to park at one time.
The Tour operates charge from £70 per-person and up with nothing going to any of the villages they vist..
The tourists are mostly polite but have heard they would wonder into residents gardens for pictures.
A lot of the coastal beauty spots have/had the same problem and out of town parking would be the way to go
If people just respect that people live there, it wouldn’t be an issue.
i love going there, its got great parking, and you can meet people from all over the world too.