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Tourists grin for selfies at the gates of Auschwitz. Tourists plunge into Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain. A man carves his and his girlfriend’s names – “Ivan Hayley 23” – into the 2,000-year-old wall of the Coliseum. A Russian influencer is being expelled from Bali with her husband after posting a nude photo of herself in front of a sacred 700-year-old banyan tree. In Amsterdam, bachelor party attendees in penis suits lie puking in the gutter.

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