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Twitter Data Reveals US Cities Most Unfriendly to Tourists

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GETTY 090415 WELCOMETOTEXAS?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1441369061482Dennis Macdonald/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Summer’s nearly over, and that means most summer vacations are, too.  If you haven’t yet had the chance to take yours, you might want to think twice about visiting certain cities that, apparently, would rather you not visit at all.

Stratosjets compiled Twitter data to analyze over 37,000 geotagged tweets from June 1, 2014 to July 20, 2015. Tweets that included the words “tourist” and “tourists” were then checked to see if they were positive or negative. Then based on the number of negative tweets, the company compiled a list of the cities where the locals were most unfriendly to tourists.

While the method may not be scientific, it does show how a fair few people in those cities feel about tourists.  Based on those results, here are the top ten cities where the locals are most unwelcoming of tourists:

1. Arlington, Texas
2. New York City, New York
3. Las Vegas, Nevada
4. Boston, Massachusetts
5. New Orleans, Louisiana
6. Orlando, Florida
7. Greensboro, North Carolina
8. Phoenix, Arizona
9. Los Angeles, California
10. San Francisco, California

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