Oh look, a beautiful, unspoiled place on earth full of kind, honest people and innocent, happy animals! Cue the overtourism in 3, 2, 1...

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showerst 6 days ago | parent [-]

Scotland is not some undiscovered place that nobody ever talks about visiting.

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graemep 6 days ago | parent [-]

Depends where you are. it is known in the US, and its popular with people from the rest of the UK.

It does not seem to be much known in Asia, apart from as the source of whiskey.

I do not about the rest of Europe, but my feeling is that it is not well known.

I have been quite surprised how many people (from Asia and Europe) can visit, or even live in, the UK and not go out of London.

While Scotland is not unknown, there are certainly a lot of people who might visit who have a low awareness of what is there, and articles like this show some very attractive aspects of Scotland.

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jacquesm 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Keep it that way. The last thing you want is the locust plague turning your beautiful countryside into a theme park where the locals can no longer live.

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gbuk2013 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Oh don’t worry - the midges are doing a great job of keeping it that way! :)

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jacquesm 6 days ago | parent [-]

The Scottish Air Force :)

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DonHopkins 6 days ago | parent [-]

https://www.tiktok.com/@dailymail/video/7532540419264023821?...

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		Let's not turn every thread into an anti-Trump thread. On second thought, Let's.

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DonHopkins 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or going on Glaswegian Chocolate Bar Safaris hoping to spot Sad Oompa Loompas in their natural habitat.

https://x.com/KalhanR/status/1762703755462468045

We went viral as Oompa Loompas but we're just normal people:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2y59r89vjo

If not a theme park or safari, then at least a movie:

>A petition to to bring back the experience has been launched, while Scottish actress Karen Gillan has said she wants to star in a film adaptation of the event.

https://www.tiktok.com/@movieweb/video/7348892246982397190

>I would be a cheeky Oompa Looma!

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pjc50 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is already something of a problem in places due to AirBnB, especially on the islands.

Mind you, I live in Edinburgh and the Festival has arrived, so I have an extra 100k people to walk past or through everytime I want to get anywhere this month.

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rkachowski 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

it's all good, we already have plagues of midges to protect the countryside from humanity.

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raesene9 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Weirdly Scotland is more popular with European tourists than you might think. Until recently I lived in a relatively tourist heavy part of the country, near Loch Lomond, and every summer we'd get a lot of cars from European countries on the roads.

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ghaff 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I suspect that outside of maybe one main destination city (Edinburgh--maybe two with Glasgow), Scotland probably feels somewhat hard to get around to someone from a very different culture and they may not be wrong.

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_Wintermute 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The coachloads of Chinese tourists that I see every summer make me doubt this.