Also, Chinese tourists everywhere.

And god forbid you ever have to be near any of the Saudi royal family.

grew up in a major European city with lots of tourism. Asian tourists are almost invisible on how unobnoxious they are. while Americans are loud and entitled. Germans and English tourists were annoying but only came to get drunk on the beach. Israeli tourists also tend to be entitled and annoying.

other groups were rare so not much to talk about them

Asian tourists are almost invisible on how unobnoxious they are.

Depends. Those big tourist groups are definitely an issue when the streets are already cramped without tourists and you have places to be.

From Barcelona. they only shop up on line a handful of corners, seems like they get off the bus on the Sagrada Familia or other simpler spots, take their picture and go back to the bus. I didn’t specify which eat Asians, because never gotten too close and no one complains about them.

I’ve been to Barcelona, didn’t seem like a particularly cramped city. When I lived in a cramped, touristy city, my university was one of the attractions and right in the middle of the city center.

they do have a lot of policies to not overdo tourism and become a theme park. like banning airbnb or adding a tax on hotels for tourists…

it does help

It also helps that they have really wide streets compared to some other popular tourist destinations. Some of those old european towns have much narrower streets than Barcelona.