Romania travel
Meetup in Glod when?
>>2852600Is that Romania?
>>2852601It absolutely is.
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>>2852605That is fucking crazy, the disrespect just gets worse and worse. No wonder their government were mad. Not only take the piss out of them but don't even go to their country to film what you're shaming them for kek
>>2852611I thought Kazakhstan loved the attention, and saw a noticeable increase in tourism.
>>2852866They definitely did get more tourism, from idiots though. I bet that's died down now. Maybe the positive outweighed the bad for them, I haven't looked into it much
>>2852886Kazakhstan got to double dip, imo. They no doubt attracted loads of people traveling for meme value, but more importantly, they also got for free what other 'developing' nations spend billions on (Olympics, F1, WC, etc) - a global platform to break all stereotypes about their nation.
>>2852889Olympics?
>>2852891Megaevents like the Olympics put your nation in the centre of lots of global conversations, and puts a huge magnifying glass over your institutions, too. It's basically advertising who you are and what you're up to. At the time Borat came out, there were shitloads of articles about Kazakhstan, and Nazabayev did the right thing in using the opportunity to promote rather than attack and sue. It's quite rare for a nation to occupy media time for a prolonged period and to just constantly soak up positive PR from it. It no doubt really helped change lots of peoples perceptions of KZ, from being a soviet shithole, to somewhere which is relatively "up'n'coming"; a smaller scale version of what the Beijing Olympics did for China.
>>2852892I know this but I definitely don't remember the Olympics ever being it fucking Kazakhstan
>>2852866>>2852886Kazakhstan's tourism department just fucking leaned into it.
>>2852934Not surprised, big business capitalists will capitalise of anything possible.What is a tourist department even? I've always found it creepy. A group of people dedicated to selling their country like a cheap fun fair. Not even someone representing an industry like Cars who would have personal gain, but literally the country in general so you're inadvertently working for the airlines, hotels, prostitutes, scammers, shitty souvenir shops. To me it's just gross.Anyway I'll meet you in Glod in a few weeks
Oh I feel so smug right now, I feel so smug. Sorry
And I paid £141Imagine being American having to travel to the other side of the World to see the wonders of Europe, and also getting absolutely exported to. One benefit of living in the shitty uk
>>2853275yeah but we can easily make 6 figures (even many retards do) with half the tax burden so that 600 (only retards pay more) flight is basically pennies under the sofa for us. Not to mention we have access to the best travel Credit cards, which anyone with a brain can churn for basically free flights all year with normal spend. However a vocal minority of retards who work at Wendy's will tell you there is no escaping the poverty so YMMV, but remember they are likely brown too.
>>2853313Less time off with which to spend also median wage is nowhere close to 6 figures, it's high compared to European average but not "easily 6 figures". Your flight could be 400 and you'd still be paying more as a % of income than an average Europoor and that's using £141 flights as basis which are a complete rip off for a single person, I rarely pay that for two people.
>>2853525Right, even that's high. People pay £50, it's only because I choose British airways which is always over triple. Not sure why you'd engage in comparing USA (a single country) with Europe. How do the Americas compare to the UK? Now that's the real third world
>>2852600>>2852605>>2852606This shit remembers me of when a shoe company (Nike, I think) went to an African tribe and made them wear their shoes, and the ad it created had false translations that said shit like "Woah these shoes are so good, so much better than being barefoot" but in actuality they were saying "these shoes fucking suck and are really uncomfortable". Also holy fuck these new captcha's are fucking obnoxious.
