Top holiday destinations are now threatening bad tourists with jail


By AGENCY
In late July, a tourist stepped into Rome’s Trevi Fountain, climbed up one of the sculptures and dove into the water amid a crowd of cheering onlookers. -- AP

These are just some of the latest examples of tourists behaving badly:

A group of German guests toppled a 150-year-old statue at a villa in northern Italy. A Danish woman exposed herself while riding a motorbike in Bali. A Polish man climbed a closed, sacred temple at Chichén Itzá in Mexico. Americans harassed bears at Yellowstone National Park.

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