What is the author's opinion on American tourists and their behavior while visiting new places?
There is another thing about the American tourist, other than mostly great guests of the State.  Somehow, they forgot to pack their common sense and most of their brains at home in their own State.  Keeping you and your children safe in paradise only takes a few minutes of your time reinforcing the rules of safety when visiting a strange place.   Even locals drown, fall off mountainsides, and yes, they even get lost when they deviate off the trails in the dense mountainous vegetation.  Why does the tourist feel the host people can keep tourists safe in every situation where a naive decision was made to do something you have never chanced to do in your own world at home?  If you indulge in drinking heavily off shore until you're whacked out of your mind....  say no more!   It is plain stupid choices, and made at your own risk!