We’ve had a great time here. Everyone has been so kind. I have a recap of your great pre-trip advice coming. This is outside the Natural Historic Museum today.

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  2. That’s some fringe environment group. Don’t pay it any attention. Hop you had a great time in my country. 🙂

  3. This is made by a small group of trolls that nobody likes. They probably don’t even like themselves. We have nothing against tourists.

  8. Generally, people don’t like huge, polluting cruise ships with passengers that flood the city centers.

    We don’t personally dislike the people on board. Don’t take it personally. Tourists are welcome everywhere, but preferrably with other means of transportation.

    Norway is a small country. A big cruise ship can have more passengers than the entire local population. It’s like being invaded by a small town of foreigners that leave again after a day.

    Watch this video to understand the problem: https://youtu.be/XK2F1SeBQXY

  10. You have your answer to your question in the number of people that has tried to tear the poster down.

    No, we don’t hate tourists in Oslo.

    The kinds of tourists that are sometimes hated are cruise tourists swarming small towns or villages not respecting the local people, campervan tourists driving slow on narrow roads creating huge queues (drive to the side and let people pass your camper) and some tourists abusing the right to roam rule, putting up tents or parking illegally offroad on beaches or private land or blocking public areas for others.

    But these are all things in places where there are too many tourists in places not made for lots of visitors. Oslo is a city large enough to handle the tourists visiting us.

  11. Poster is torn. It says cruise-tourist. Which myself and many others dislike

    Regular tourist who enjoys our country and leaves some money in our economy while here are very much liked!

  13. Cruise tourists tend to block up the city, and rarely leave much money behind as they get everything they need on board the boat. Hence why a lot of people don’t like cruise tourists.

  14. Cruise tourism doesn’t leave a lot of money for the locals and is frowned upon given how obnoxious the cruise ships are leveraging space in the docks.

  15. If you are not hiking out mountains in slippers and unfitted gear so we have to rescue you and as mentioned earlier not on a cruise then you’re welcome here .

  17. We love tourists even though you are sometimes hopelessly clueless. I once came back from a day trip to Pulpit Rock and met some Asian tourists going up the mountain in the afternoon wearing regular clothes and sandals, not realizing that Norwegian mountains are not to be messed with and that the trip would take them 4-5 hours at best. However, we are not so enamored with cruise tourists. They give nothing back to the country and only pollute our pristine environment with their ships. They also tend to be pretty ignorant.

  18. Cruise tourists are the worst. Same goes for Germans who come in RVs and bring their own potatoes.

  19. It’s aimed at cruise tourism: ships that pollute, tourists who eat onboard and generally spend very little actual money in the cities they visit. This isn’t a Norwegian thing; I saw similar posters in Venice a couple of years ago.

  20. Yeah I lived in Ålesund for 2 years, and there were barely other Americans i’d run into… until the scary cruise ship that pulled up in June… i was never more embarrassed of my own culture. Im sure its really good for the shops and restaurants though! At least financially.

  22. As a future tourist of Norway (December!) who also loathes cruise ships, these answers were a big relief.

  23. Nope. We bikepacked through Norway a couple of times, the people were super kind and helpful. Some even got out of their way to stop their cars and gave us ice creams. 🙂

  24. It’s not tourists per se. It’s cruise tourists. Cruise ships come everywhere, and they appear then drop off thousands of people who swamp the streets, cause massive amounts of noise, litter, overcrowd everywhere, and then just disappear. By the next day, they may be completely gone, and all that’s left is their litter and random junk.

    Cruise tourists spend barely any money in the area they visit. They just cause a lot of noise and inconvenience for everyone and then just disappear. It’s terrible.

    Normal tourists, on the other hand, are great. They spend money on the local economy through food and hotels, and they are in small groups that slowly appear and disappear. Tourists are fine, cruise tourists are not.

  25. Its about cruise tourist. Like most of the world Its severale ships at once. The amount of people can be insane. And the smoke/polution from the ships. Aswell as people have been bothered by people going into their gardens and even homes.😂
    It’s like alot of cruise tourist is entitled.😂 but most people dont dislike them either, its just a few thats like shouting it out. Most norwegians love tourist, we love showing of our Country.

  27. Ask yourself if a person going around town hanging up posters about hating people actually represents a whole people.

  29. It’s directed towards the cruiseship industry and their lack of responsibility around important environmental issues, but also the lack of reward by visiting our coast, in the local economy.

    Those posters are controversial because we want tourist to feel welcome, but our fragile nature of Norway is too important to sugarcoat and it has become too much of a bother than an enjoyment to have them here.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/norway-anticruise-poster-campaign-b2125605.html

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