{"id":7618,"date":"2020-10-16T06:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T06:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezjcloud.com\/traveller\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:35:25","slug":"how-not-to-be-a-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easyjet.com\/en\/traveller\/best-of-europe\/how-not-to-be-a-tourist","title":{"rendered":"The tourist&#8217;s guide to not acting like a tourist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At\u00a0an\u00a0unknown point in history, someone took the first\u00a0selfie\u00a0of themselves pretending to pinch the top of the Eiffel Tower. It was probably very funny. Since then, approximately 50 million people have taken the same picture. But there&#8217;s a growing movement that does things differently. One that looks beyond the\u00a0clich\u00e9s\u00a0and the crowds. Some people call it\u00a0untourism. 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