The worst-behaved tourists of 2023
CNNEditor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. In February, photos were posted to social media showing men “pretending to sexually assault young female characters” in Ghibli Park, Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper reported. From Keswick Mountain Rescue Team They may not have been doing it for the benefit of social media, but one group of “young adult males” got into trouble in the UK’s Lake District. “We’ve always had people take risque pictures but this is the first year it’s been a problem, which is why we’ve put signs up,” he said, adding that they issued the warning after visiting children “saw what was going on.” Meanwhile in Italy, two German tourists were arrested for graffitiing Florence’s Vasari Corridor, linking the Uffizi Galleries to the Ponte Vecchio. In August, two drunk American tourists were found in the Eiffel Tower one morning, having spent the night there “allegedly trapped there due to their excessive alcohol consumption,” the Paris prosecutor’s office told CNN.