{"id":6803,"date":"2015-03-18T20:13:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2015-03-18T20:13:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T03:13:46","slug":"on-being-a-responsible-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2015\/03\/on-being-a-responsible-tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being a “Responsible Tourist”"},"content":{"rendered":"

visitors on their worst behavior seem to be making it more and more in the headlines lately, with a list by the Telegraph<\/a> of recent transgressions sounding like an episode of Jerks Gone Wild<\/em>. most recently, two Americans scratched their initials<\/a> into the Colosseum, but the one that really got me a couple years back was Ding Jinhao defacing the Luxor Temple<\/a> in Egypt.<\/p>\n

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Luxor Temple. “Jon Khoo was here” but I didn’t have to carve my name into an ancient relic.<\/p><\/div>\n

ugh. really, people? you don’t need to ask what Jesus would do. well, i wouldn’t since i’m not religious, but simpler: would your mom approve of what you’re doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

if not, don’t<\/em>!<\/p>\n

i recently made a hotel booking and noticed a link in the confirmation email to the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s brochures on “The Responsible Tourist and Traveller”<\/a>, part of their Global Code of Ethics for Tourism campaign.<\/p>\n

to summarize their points:<\/p>\n