Top-end visitors will find a good selection of restaurants and hotels in the touristy towns and within some of the major resorts.

Perfect timing We roll south and checkout the extremely touristy, party-centric town of Playa Del Carmen before getting into Tulum right at dusk.

We were in Calangute, northern Goa, a beach resort which lost its charm a couple of decades ago and is now a rather over-developed touristy town for package holidaymakers.

But go to some of the less touristy towns and villages, and it is obvious that it is harder to be poor in the countryside than the city.

So I took a three-hour ferry from Venice (52 euros on Venezia lines; venezialines.com) to the pretty but touristy town of Rovinj, on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia.

The north Devon coastline is markedly different to its southern cousin; altogether more rugged and rather less touristy, with some great beaches, pretty seaside towns and excellent surf breaks.

On the Californian coast next August, love quaint towns, touristy towns etc. went to San Diego and San Francisco last June and...

"It's a very clean town, very touristy," he notes.

I've never seen as many Jeeps as in the small touristy town of Moab, Utah which serves both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.

Taormina's fame and picture-postcard views of Etna from the town's Greek Theatre make it easily Sicily's most touristy town.