Naked hiking, messing with statues, sloth selfies – too many of us have forgotten how to be tourists | Laura Hall

You'd think avoiding this sort of thing would be obvious, but the rise of good tourism' schemes suggests the opposite

It seems as though a lot of people have forgotten how to be tourists. As a travel writer, I can't quite believe some of the behaviour we're seeing on display around the world. Summer might be a time to throw away inhibitions, but we don't need to throw away all of them.

Let's start with the obvious: leave those poor statues alone. There's no need to ride them, play with them, touch them up or do unspeakable things with them, like we've seen in the past week. I won't go into details, but suffice to say that if you're doing things like that in public, your mum will be ashamed. Just don't do it.

Laura Hall is a travel writer and journalist based in Copenhagen