That's an article full of cliches and misinterpreted categorizing.

b******t

I'm detecting a note of snobbery here.

Tourist shaming is one of douche-filters I apply on potential friends. Like come on. You're not better for sleeping in the motherfing woods. Just fking enjoy your bloody life and stop making other people feel less valid.

This is absolute b******t. I don't agree with any of these comparisons. Not one. Logically actually, just look up the meaning of tourist in the dictionary: a person who is traveling, especially for pleasure. A traveler according to the dictionary: a person or thing that travels. A tourist can be a traveler and a traveler is often a tourist.

All are tourists, only 'travelers' are snooty about it. There's evidence that 'travelers' leave a bigger environmental footprint.

It's so popular issue. Nowadays there are a lot of "travellers" and "travel bloggers" who is pretending to travel exciting but, in fact, they don't travel for enjoyment, they explore for content. Indeed, travelling might be very complicated: to understand correctly the country, to interact with locals, to understand their language and dialects. There is a huge difference between traveller and tourist.

load of pretentious nonsense

How can I rate this? Bunch of c**p

absolute nonsense.

Ended up being an add for some travel app. I'm getting super sick of these sites sneaking ads onto us.

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The first one is true, none of the others are, though...

Silliest generalizations I've ever seen.

Lame, just lame Thumbs Down !

Traveller or low budget tourist?

Ugggh...this article is so "posh" and "oooh look at me, being adventurey!" Just go where you wanna go and take photos however you friggin' want! Geez

Pretentious

While I understand the conceptual difference which the author is attempting to illustrate, I agree with the others that this is full of stereotypes and not really representative of either a tourist or a traveller. I fancy myself a little of both, although I would never hitchhike or ride a motorcylce, and I don't lug tripods when travelling overseas.

If there is any difference between a tourist and a traveller (we really are all tourists if we just travel in a country, no matter how hip our instagram pics might be) it's that tourists leaves more money in the foreign country, create jobs and give tips.

You're a better person if you're a traveler & not a tourist? Why the judgement? I choose tourist & will see the Eiffel Tower & Taj Mahal!

I dont think, I ride :)

Very simplistic article, based on silly clichès.

This article shows us the differences between regular travellers and backpackers. There! Haha

Everyone who is upset about this need to take a chill pill. I find this absolutely hilarious. If you haven't seen a TRUCK-LOAD of 'tourists' that come all at once and hog one touristy spot all to themselves, then decide to take a photo of each of every 30-something of them... then you haven't traveled enough!

Definitely a traveler for 42 years...... And still to come!

b******t and cliches. u can be a traveler on a tourist route and even it a 5* resort, you can be a tourist atop of everest. it's not about crowds or amenities, it's about mindset.

It doesn't matter, I don't differentiate. I just know that they're welcome starting in May and they need to leave by October 1st.

Mostly a traveler. For some things I'm on the side of the tourist in terms of organisation.

This is a wonderful post, and I just wanted to say.... For all the people who commented things like "travelers can do that, too" or "noo, it would be the other way around....." This is really just showing the MOST LIKELY tourist/traveller actions, obviously a tourist can climb a mountain or a traveller can hail a cab....people shouldn't critize BoredPanda for that....some posts are just different that others, for good or for bad. Sorry for anyone who thinks different and I didn't mean to offend anybody.