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I grew up on a beach town on the Florida Panhandle, and I hate tourists. It's part of the reason I live elsewhere during the summer months...if I get cut off one more time by a Suburban from Louisiana, have to hear another loud-ass conversation about how the seafood here is so much better than the stuff you get at Long John Silver's in Atlanta or Little Rock (maybe because it's fresh, you eediot), or be confused with the help (hmm, wonder why), I will scream. I worked at a surf shop which catered to tourists, and it was the worst job of my entire life. A lot of people on vacation like to go shopping drunk, and like to spend a lot of money that they don't have (evidenced when the 6 credit cards they have on them are all rejected). I got the N-bomb dropped on me at least once a week, along with hearing how bad the traffic was (wonder why), how expensive the hotel was, and how they couldn't wait to get back to whatever backwater town they were from.
Ditto with what Sistermadly said: if you're going to complain about everything, why don't you stay at home? Most of us Americans, especially us Southerners, have a bad reputation in travel circles for being that insular. We need to do whatever we can to stop that stereotype.
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