Holiday Photos with Tourists in the Frame

I totally agree with you, it would come across as very unnatural if there were no people in it, it makes the photo lifelike

I have removed a few (a couple of) people from the image a few times, because they were distracting for the picture.
Incidentally, not at the Stokkur in Iceland, because I was there early enough not to have any people in the image.
The same was the case at Old Faithful in Yellowstone. We were early enough to watch it erupt with a few Americans. Later in the day it was busy there and I also captured that difference in images.
Removing people from St. Mark's Square is nonsense, because you know it is busy there.
Incidentally, it is about the experience and not whether someone happens to be in the image.
But sometimes having someone in the image is distracting (to me). And then removing them is a consideration.

Hello Nando,
Sometimes it's really too busy and you don't have the chance to wait a bit until there are fewer people. Then I remove a few tourists, especially those people wearing something fluorescent. But sometimes it's also useful to have a few people in the photo, that gives an idea of the size or proportions, a good example is your photo of Stokkur. Without them you have no idea how high this geyser shoots.

it bothers me more that the buildings in the photo aren't straight the people are there otherwise it wouldn't be natural without people

I find removing people from a photo of a tourist attraction unrealistic. What I do remove is someone who happens to walk into the frame just as you take the photo. Such a person is usually on the left or right of your frame and I remove them.
What I have also done is use a long shutter speed. That works well when people are moving or don't stand still for too long. By the way, it only works if there aren't too many people in that place. I use that method when I'm purely interested in a particular building alongside which there is always some movement.
If I want to photograph a historic street without people, I wait for a moment when there is no one there.
So I almost never remove people with the help of AI. If you do, I'll bet you that when you look closely, you can see the removal at 100%

Nando, that is indeed also a solution, but sometimes you can wait forever and I don't wait for that. If you're travelling with someone who happens not to care much about photography and is satisfied with a 'snapshot', you're annoying if you want to move on to another location.
I can tell you one thing: you don't want to take me along on a photo trip in a group. Then you experience me as an impediment to the goal of your trip as the guide.
So waiting for the right moment is not always possible, all the more so because you don't know whether the right moment will come soon. On top of that, I always want to take someone else into account and that sometimes comes at my own expense. Not the most ideal picture, but afterwards I can make the most ideal picture of it without doing too much harm to the original

I don't have an editing program . Because I never edit photos. I don't think it fits when you edit photos . For me, it is no longer natural . Beautifying photos is no longer really real for me . If you have to edit all your images with an expensive camera, you're not doing it right . I keep it the way I photographed it .

Absolutely correct, Nando. In the analogue era, editing was also done (developing and printing), and by choosing certain chemicals you could influence the result, and you could edit negatives with special pencils, etc. For many, that was not feasible and the roll went to the processing lab.
Digital photography makes it possible to do all those edits yourself. You can also take multiple photos of one subject.
In the past, you had to be sparing with the roll because having it developed and printed was not cheap.
Photos were also 'embellished' in the analogue era. Ime Roffel's argument shows short-sightedness and not looking beyond the end of one's nose.
But anyway, of course everyone is allowed to have their own opinion. I actually enjoy beautifully editing the photo from the camera without doing violence to the photo. Doing that myself is precisely part of my hobby. I don't want to leave that to the camera's software.