– which is good news and bad news. However much holiday destinations rely on them, no one wants badly behaved tourists, carbon emissions, nature depletion and plastic pollution are all huge concerns. But that doesn’t mean you have to cancel your holiday. Here are 28 ways to be a better tourist this summer.When planning a holiday, the first thing most people do is pick a destination.
And be ambitious. “It’s not just Paris, Lille and Brussels that can be easily reached by train these days,” says Hammond. “You can get the train to Bari or Brindisi in Italy and then a ferry to Greece, Croatia or Albania. In the summer, you can get to Corfu overland from the UK within 48 hours.”“Coaches aren’t considered a luxury way to travel, but modern coaches have reclining seats, wifi – and, on a recent journey from Basel to Paris, they even sold ice-cold Czech beer,” says Hammond.