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 the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Ottawa, Canada.


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