Yes; it's unfortunate that it has that sort of image for a lot of people, but good for people like me who prefer the place as it is and not full of tourist hordes. Of course Eurotribbers are, like me, "travellers", an altogether different category :-)

A traveller enters a new place with an open mind and a hunger to experience.

I know when I say this my geek will be showing, but nothing says it better than the Monty Python Tourist Sketch:

What's the point of going abroad if you're just another tourist carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Coventry... complaining about the tea - "Oh they don't make it properly here, do they, not like at home"... squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh `cos they "overdid it on the first day"...

And sending tinted postcards of places they don't realise they haven't even visited to "All at number 22, weather wonderful, our room is marked with an `X'. Food very greasy but we've found a charming little local place hidden away in the back streets...where they serve Watney's Red Barrel and cheese and onion..."

Expressed more pithily and earthily :-)

Tourists expect toilet paper -- travelers carry their own (with the carton roll removed and pressed flat).

http://www.travelblogs.com/articles/the-difference-between-tourists-and-travellers

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.