Tourists behavior Maui vs Oahu different? (Honolulu, Lahaina: fit in, income, living in)
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Based on personal experience only but often come across more rude tourists with entitlement mentality on Maui than when on Oahu.
Anyone think there is grain of truth to this?
Well one could probably make a fairly well-reasoned argument, I would imagine, that at least as a generalized average the tourists who come to Maui represent a higher income bracket (on average, I said) than those who flock to Oahu. Coming from the perspective of having grown up living in one of the east coast's premiere tourist attraction areas (and having worked many teenage jobs involving tourists) I would anecdotally assert that the richer people are the worse they act as tourists...especially Americans.
Based on personal experience only but often come across more rude tourists with entitlement mentality on Maui than when on Oahu.
Anyone think there is grain of truth to this?
Never noticed it. Honolulu is so hustle-bustle, that I associate it with life in any big city. When you get away from the City, people seem more relaxed, just like on Maui. The average age of tourists is higher on Maui, and perhaps they have higher expectations for service?
If you happen to have a bus full of Japanese tourists, life is a joy. They listen, they are polite, they obey the rules, they come back to the bus on time, they don't get lost, Japanese tourists overall are great tourists. Some European groups are more loud, rude and not prone to listening to instructions. United States tourists from the mainland have a tendency to have an entitlement attitude "it's my vacation and I can do what I want" and be a bit rude, usually the further East they come from the more pronounced this attitude can be. However, if you want the worst group of folks to fill up a tour bus with, fill it with teachers. Guaranteed some of them will decide to wander off and find another way back without telling anyone, I might add. They will not listen, they will argue and they generally don't pay any attention to the rules.
All these are, of course, merely generalizations, and are sheerly from chatting with tour bus drivers so it isn't valid data and don't quote me on this.
United States tourists from the mainland have a tendency to have an entitlement attitude "it's my vacation and I can do what I want" and be a bit rude, usually the further East they come from the more pronounced this attitude can be.
I know a guy who drives for one of the Big Island tour companies, and he told me he had Bill Gates on one of his tours... and he had to yell at him for trying to cross the street in front of the bus, which they announce over and over not to do, as a safety precaution.
On the other hand he said that Bill was a good sport about it, and was even apologetic that he had zoned out on what he was doing. But then again, he's from Seattle, where pedestrians will wait for a green light to cross the street, even in a pouring rain with no traffic.
And the traffic in Seattle will come to a screeching halt upon the sight of a pedestrian even glancing across the street, let alone one actually thinking about crossing the street. I'd bet Seattle folks get run over a lot when they are places other than Seattle since their street crossing instincts have become rusty. All that rain, no doubt.
I would think Pacific North West tourists as well as Alaska tourists would be fairly polite? Those two areas seem somewhat similar in outlook to here so one would think the folks visiting from there would fit in here pretty well?
When I moved to California - a friend of mine went back with me to downtown Chicago on a work trip. He started to cross Michigan Avenue and was almost run down (I had to grab him last minute) - he thought it was like CA where they stop for pedestrians in xwalk - I had to tell him a running down a pedestrian in Chicago is a sport.
However, if you want the worst group of folks to fill up a tour bus with, fill it with teachers. Guaranteed some of them will decide to wander off and find another way back without telling anyone, I might add. They will not listen, they will argue and they generally don't pay any attention to the rules.
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