Comments on: I am a Touron, So What?

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:54:12 +0000

Well, we weren’t exactly NPS staff – we worked for the concessionaire. But based on the flyers they were giving out to tourons on entry (a half sheet warning about how, ummmm, ignorant it was to stand by buffalo to get a photo), NPS were probably not philosophically opposed to a word blending tourist and moron!

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:56:09 +0000

@TJ: I cannot claim creation of the word; I heard it form someone else in the 1990s. Nice to know how NPS staff feel about the public (and I would agree with them!)

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:57:06 +0000

I just couldn’t resist reading something that used the word “touron.” I worked in housekeeping in Yellowstone National Park one summer (1985) and I learned the word there, from other employees. Maybe we all got it from the guy from Arizona!

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:23:50 +0000

Awesome.

And the only people who smirk at tourists are people who never travel.