Chavs Force Tourists To Get Exotic

[sligoman]

Holidaymakers are seeking ever-more exotic locations to avoid "chavellers", a World Travel Market report has revealed.Chavs, typically seen as working class and jewellery-loving, are frightening off the middle-class traveller, the report found.Julian Rolfe, of research company Synovate, said: "The prospect of going somewhere the chavs favour is too awful to contemplate for the middle classes."

"For the middle classes, going somewhere like Chile, Libya or Mozambique has real bragging appeal and sets them apart from the crowd.

"You could say the more affluent are seeking a road less chavelled."

The report also found that low-cost airlines were dictating how European countries performed as tourist destinations.

Low-fare flights now make up 40% of the total UK air journey market to Europe.

Estonia has reported British visitor numbers were up 77% on last year after EasyJet started weekly trips to its capital city Tallinn.

Similar booms were seen in Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania and Slovenia.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14112005/140/chavs-force-tourists-exotic.html

[dcfcsteve]

The report also found that low-cost airlines were dictating how European countries performed as tourist destinations.

Low-fare flights now make up 40% of the total UK air journey market to Europe.

Estonia has reported British visitor numbers were up 77% on last year after EasyJet started weekly trips to its capital city Tallinn.

Similar booms were seen in Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania and Slovenia.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14112005/140/chavs-force-tourists-exotic.html

It's scary how much ecnomic power the likes of Ryanair effectively have/create - particularly for smaller, less well known destinations.

They've recently expanded their Derry-Stansted service with flights to Liverpool and East Midlands (Nottingham). Will hopefully lead to more curious English coming over to Doire for a wee nosey. Last year I got chatting to a group of 4 English lads on a flight home I got. They only ended-up in Derry as they were looking for somewhere cheap to go on Ryanair that weekend. Had themselves an excellent time, and said they'd be back again. I'm sure that's not a one-off - if Ryanair go somewhere, people will end up travelling there primarily because they can.

As for chavellers - Thailand's no bettter than Benidorm these days. In fact, it's worse - as a lot of them are there for the sex trade.....

[lopez]

Plenty of Ryanair destinations for a penny that Chavellers will not touch with a barge pole. A lot of France and Italy and the Northern Spanish airports of Santander, Aviles and Santiago. For starters, you will have to buy a phrase book if they are going to get outside the airport.

[finlma]

Its a good point - I'd never ever go to the Costa Del Anywhere again. All those places are now full of Sun reading chavs looking for their proper English grub and a pint of Stella (none of that foreign crap)

[tetsujin1979]

True story: was in a Burger King in Tenerife a few years ago, with an English bloke in front of me trying to order. The bloke behind the counter had little (if any) english and the english bloke had zero spanish. Eventually he got what he wanted, turned and as he walked past me muttered under his breath "Bloody Foreigners!". Myself and my mate were stunned at this!!

[Dawn_Run]

True story: was in a Burger King in Tenerife a few years ago, with an English bloke in front of me trying to order. The bloke behind the counter had little (if any) english and the english bloke had zero spanish. Eventually he got what he wanted, turned and as he walked past me muttered under his breath "Bloody Foreigners!". Myself and my mate were stunned at this!!

That kind of $hite really bugs me.
tetsujin - That should have been greeted with 'Speak for yourself'

[sligoman]

Benidorm is a sh!thole now. It's like been in England only you have better weather. If I was Spanish then I think I'd go fecking mad. Everywhere you look it's English bars, English restaurants, it's disgraceful. Everything is in English, very few menu's actually wrote in Spanish, except for the "old town" part of Benidorm.

[dfx-]

Its a good point - I'd never ever go to the Costa Del Anywhere again. All those places are now full of Sun reading chavs looking for their proper English grub and a pint of Stella (none of that foreign crap)

Exactly the reason for me heading further abroad like South Africa..

Went to Salou this Summer as well - because I really liked it in 1996.............................................. ...............................NEVER again:mad: :D

[lopez]

Benidorm is a sh!thole now. It's like been in England only you have better weather. If I was Spanish then I think I'd go fecking mad. Everywhere you look it's English bars, English restaurants, it's disgraceful. Everything is in English, very few menu's actually wrote in Spanish, except for the "old town" part of Benidorm.Agree totally. From fishing village to sh*thole in the space of a working lifetime. It's not just English restaurants though. I spotted a Danish one too. FFS, a country that is to international cuisine what Ireland is to Winter Olympic skiing. :D

[dcfcsteve]

To show you how classy a destination Benidorm is - it even has what in my experience is the only 'Ulster Taverna' in the world.

Think O'Neills, but with a Loyalist theme instead of the Guinness and old buscuit tins. Even has the words of The Sash written on the walls around the entrance to the place. Dreadful.

To make it worse, it's on the edge of the Basque area of the old town - so it's somehow dragging the more neanderthal element from the holiday strip all the way up to the nice part of town, just to quench their thirst for all things Loyalist.

[sligoman]

To show you how classy a destination Benidorm is - it even has what in my experience is the only 'Ulster Taverna' in the world.

Think O'Neills, but with a Loyalist theme instead of the Guinness and old buscuit tins. Even has the words of The Sash written on the walls around the entrance to the place. Dreadful.

To make it worse, it's on the edge of the Basque area of the old town - so it's somehow dragging the more neanderthal element from the holiday strip all the way up to the nice part of town, just to quench their thirst for all things Loyalist.Saw that p!ss pub alright, some of the writing on the wall outside was disgraceful, it actually ruined the old part of the town which is still quite Spanish, not for much longer I doubt:(.

[sylvo]

Agree totally. From fishing village to sh*thole in the space of a working lifetime. It's not just English restaurants though. I spotted a Danish one too. FFS, a country that is to international cuisine what Ireland is to Winter Olympic skiing. :D


Thankfully these kind of places i've managed to avoid apart from that Albuferia and Montochoro place in the Algarve on the Spain away trip in seville .:eek: , that theme bar that Derry Steve was talking about would have gone down very well with some of the people that Mick the Greek hooked up with ;) on that trip.

[redgav]

True story: was in a Burger King in Tenerife a few years ago, with an English bloke in front of me trying to order. The bloke behind the counter had little (if any) english and the english bloke had zero spanish. Eventually he got what he wanted, turned and as he walked past me muttered under his breath "Bloody Foreigners!". Myself and my mate were stunned at this!!

overheard something similar in loads of different places -Hated it so since then I go further afield in spain now ,where there aren't any airports catering for charters
Would recommend a look at the Costa Brava ,Ryan Air fly just to the north of Barca,place called Girona - Loads of them small villages and towns are class places to stay - Lafranc ,begur,l'estartit,l'escala- pure spanish , no burger kings or red Lion , not even a sniff of a paddy bar-foods amazing and can be quite cheap as well