I used to feel that way about tourism - god and bad - I don't so much anymore.
Tourism (for the population , it is about money coming into the country - ultimately)

Which is the best tourist? -

The guy in pattaya, blowing 500,000 baht on bar girls, over month (and hence all the money going directly to the poor families out of the cities -(you how it works, right?)

OR
A hippy, spending 30,000 to street vendors and hostels, in the cities?

If tourism is about the influx of revenue, - morally dubious as it sounds (moral authority being a product of luxury, and decadence in the west, of course).

Which is the best tourist?

That's one of the kind things, I find talking to 'the tourist' and the farang who live here. It's very interesting, the perceptions.