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Top holiday spots now threatening bad tourists with jail time

conduct crackdown

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.

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

Tourists always get a bad rap, but governments are pushing back more forcefully than ever on unruly visitors,

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