British Tourists: Still ‘Pissing About’ in Latvia

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  08.05.09 | 12:27 PM ET

And Riga’s mayor, Nils Usakovs, has had enough. Usakovs spilled to the Guardian about his frustration with the British stag parties that arrive via low-cost carrier, get good and drunk and, more often than not it seems, take a moment to urinate on the city’s Freedom Monument before flying home. “We have a stigma about British tourists,” said the mayor’s spokeswoman. “They are probably not the ones we want to see.”

Yet somehow, Americans are the ones stuck with the “ugly” label?

Tags: Nation Branding, Tres Loco, Europe, Latvia, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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