An American tourist who said traveling to the Amalfi Coast in Italy was 'literal manual labor' is getting roasted on TikTok for not doing her research

• A woman has drawn flak on TikTok for comparing traveling to the Amalfi Coast to "manual labor."
• Lexi Jordan described having to travel by plane, train, and ferry to visit the Italian coastline.

An American tourist compared visiting the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy to "literal manual labor" — and people on TikTok aren't happy about it.

Lexi Jordan, a woman from Denver who vlogs about her travels and lifestyle, posted a video on TikTok criticizing content creators for showing only the positive aspects of visiting the Amalfi Coast while leaving out how they got there. The video, posted Tuesday, has almost 400,000 views and more than 32,000 comments.

"Every single influencer and TikToker who put the Amalfi Coast on my for-you page over the last two months deserves jail time," Jordan said in the video, adding that "it's impossible to get here."

Jordan said traveling to the Amalfi Coast was complicated and went on to describe one way to get there: flying into Naples, a city in southwestern Italy, and then taking a train to Sorrento, a town that's about an hour away by car.

"Then you have to stand in 90-degree weather waiting on a ferry — to get on a ferry with all of your luggage," Jordan continued. She then suggested that the place she was filming from was inaccessible by car and required climbing up 160 stairs to reach.

At the end of the video, Jordan said: "All the power went out because the Amalfi Coast doesn't have the infrastructure to support this tourism."

Dozens of users on TikTok called Jordan out for not doing her research before traveling to Italy.

"It's pretty common knowledge you should pack light in Europe and will be doing a lot of walking/stairs," one user wrote.

Another user commented: "Eh, I took a cab from Naples to the hotel. At $150 it was expensive but worth it. You need to do research outside watching tik toks lol."

But several people agreed with Jordan that traveling to the Amalfi Coast was difficult, with one user writing: "You're so brave for saying this, those steps in positano almost killed me. I contemplated skipping meals to avoid them."

Data from CEIC indicates some 50 million people visited Italy last year.

The Amalfi Coast is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Italy, with some 5 million people visiting each year, per a travel guide by U.S. News & World Report. The hashtag #amalficoast has over a billion views on TikTok, with tourists posting videos of their travels there nearly every day.

Jordan didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

Correction: July 13, 2023 — An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the CEIC data. It indicated that about 50 million people visited Italy in 2022, not 2021.