Here Today... Gone To Hell!

French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as penny-pinching, rude and terrible at languages, according to a new survey.

The study by travel company Expedia asked 4,500 hotels worldwide to rank tourists on their behaviour.

Japanese tourists - seen as clean and tidy, polite, quiet and uncomplaining - came top for the third year running.

French travellers made amends on elegance - classed third - as well as for their discretion and cleanliness.

But the French were the least ready to try a new language, unlike US tourists who were most likely to swallow their pride and order a pizza, baguette or a paella in the local lingo.

US tourists also got top marks for generosity, as the biggest spenders and tippers.

But they fell short on other counts as the least tidy, the loudest, the worst complainers and the worst dressed.

Britons came second for their overall behaviour, politeness, quietness and even elegance - second for dress sense only to the Italians.

But in Europe, the British were seen by the hoteliers as the worst behaved.

Jonathan Cudworth, the head of product marketing at Expedia.co.uk, said: "Being voted the worst tourists in the world by our closest neighbours highlights the fact that the 'Brits Abroad' moniker is a label we still haven't managed to shrug off.

"While we are in second place in the global best-tourist rankings, we clearly have a job to do to convince our European counterparts and those at home that we can be better behaved on holiday."

The model Japanese were followed by Canadians as the least likely to whinge when a trip goes wrong.

France's rivals for the world's "worst tourist" tag, Spaniards and Greeks, came near the bottom of the pack in almost every category.

BBC.co.uk

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/jarmo

Blatant rascism

French people are all rude! Black people are all crooks!

Any attempt to categorise 60 million people is disgusting - strange what 'is' and 'isnt' rascism....

we're not so rude, you fuckin' moron.

 ;D

I've heard more then often what the article says about French tourists, a bit arrogant and terrible at languages. Lots of Dutch people go on vacation to the south of France each year, but they still say this about the French. You never hear anything about Japanese tourists being a pain in the ass. And for example, at hotels in Turkey the English people are often cosidered loud and drunk lots of times, while the Russian tourists there are mostly considered very rude and asocial (like when they're eating they take 3 plates a person, eat of only 1 and dump the other 2 in the garbage can untouched). You hear these stories everywhere. I'm sure the Dutch aren't angles either and what the article says doesn't apply for each individual.

My friend at the airforce who served in Afghanistan a few times at an international base said they found the Americans there mostly arrogant, not talkative to outsiders (as in other countries), while the British and Scottish where open, nice (and loud) and the Canadians very friendly, the most friendly of all.

I'm not trying to offend anyone but this is the stuff that I hear, so don't shoot me :P

Here's the link btw: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8143780.stm

I thought that the English would gain the title of 'worst tourists' easily.  Whenever I'm in foreign countries, I'm often ashamed at the way fellow English tourists act.

Japanese tourists will crush you trying to stay in their large groups. This happened to me in Australia and the Grand Canyon. Alot of people used to hate Japanese tourists. I found alot of the Germans in Australia to be quite rude. Australians are awesome. Americans are very loud though. I don't think any group is that well dressed except for the Italians.

I am not a big traveler, my one experience and farthest travel (Jarmo you know this) was to Portugal in 06.  As I have written before this was a huge experience to my family and I.  Seriously speaking the only folks that treated us with any kindness were within the hotel where we stayed.  We were accused of being Britts by some at the Hardrock, which I may add stared and glared from behind us the entire time.  The Taxi drivers... one of them picked us up after RIR and litteraly told us to shut the #$@% up when we spoke to him.  Generally speaking just a simple walk from point a to point b led to stepping basically off of the sidewalk to allow them to pass by or we found they would just crash into us.

I swore when I got back to the states I was going to kick the first non american person I saw.  It pissed me off so bad that we have so many different cultures who have come to US for a better opportunity and they are afforded this, while some of our own Americans are homeless and on the street.  I probably couldn't even count how many are here illegally, yet they are treated with the utmost respect.  In the end I did not kick anyone and was glad to be home.  Portugal regardless was very beautiful, and it was good to see Axl again.

english versus french there's a long history.  :no:

French is a race now?

Tell me, where does it say the French are all rude?  There is no categorizing or generalizing here.  It's a survey going on experiences and opinions, nothing more.  They may be the most rude, but there is nothing that says they're ALL rude.  Major difference there.

Don't you know, calling racism is the new "cool" thing to do. If you feel offended, mistreated, or less fortunate, just call racism. It keeps you from taking any kind of responsibility for yourself and you can blame it all on everyone else.

i wont defend British tourists.

Most of them are indeed Lagar drinking Ibiza visiting retards.

Hey, we're British too! :D ;)

i've always liked all the British tourists that I've met.  The only rude French person I met was some old woman who was blocking my train seat while she was flirting with some old guys and wouldn't get out of my way while I was struggling with my luggage.

My point exactly. Thank you for proving my point.  :hihi:

rude americans are often worst GNR fans tho.

Way to generalise and stereotype your own country! : ok:

The only thing I find offensive about Britain is their food.

Well its my own country, so im allowed to.

I could stereotype your country from my few experiences there, but that wouldnt be fair now would it.

What country would that be?

As far as i know, you are French? If you are not....then i have no idea where i got that from.

Check my profile.

AdZ = rude -> you must be French  :yes:

 :rofl:




/jarmo

That was one of the points i was taking into consideration  :hihi:


Ah well. I have absolutely NO IDEA why ive always thought you were French. Although it is rather amusing all the same.  Gutted ay :D

 :beer:

Adz is a sweetheart on the inside, he's just grumpy on the outside. :hihi:

but since you wouldn't defend british, shouldn't it be

AdZ = rude -> you must be british like me!

^Wait, what??....

I'm confused now, am I French or what?

(http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/Frenchstewart.jpg)

Christian norwegians are probably the worst, and I think age plays a factor here too.
They get stupid and drunk, obscene and disruptive.

Then brits have a bad rep too.




Yeah, maybe they weren't even real frenchs.




Didn't you know, categorizing humans in races is racistic too. :P

Globalisation- fanatics...

No no. If hes British, hes a drunken hooligan that goes to Ibiza causing trouble!!! Dont forget the socks with sandles!

french people ? rude ? nah...only our president

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_deB-qSQAg&

 :rofl:

Yeah, they point out some stereotypes at the end there.

I always envied France for having that Rocco guy. :-[ he's -very- blonde and nordic tho!


 :hihi:

damn right

Most British people I met were very nice with 2 exceptions. Back in the dinosaur days before cell phones, my friend and I were in Edinburgh Scotland and we were using a payphone for very expensive calls home to the States. This Scottish guy must have thought we were taking too long because he kept pounding on the window. That was so rude. Later that night we were at a nightclub. I had bronchitis and went into a coughing fit after I finished dancing with some Irish guy. I didn't feel like dancing anymore and he became very angry, "saying You weren't coughing before!!!!" Like I could control it. I really wanted to get away from this guy but my friend liked his friend. I was becoming sicker by the minute and his friend had us take a cab back to our cheap hotel with them, and the Irish guy was so nasty that I didn't want to hook up with him. What an a**hole.

What do you mean by "worst" fans? Some Americans aren't fans at all. Are they worse than the "worst" fans?

kinda like some French people don't go abroad at all. and not all French are rude. 

I just tried to go with bbc's heading.
at least i didn't forget to put 'often'.

That's how we say hello in our country.

You wanna know how they say hello in Morningside Heights?

Somewhat related to the original topic:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jul/19/official-alert-boozy-brits-abroad (http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jul/19/official-alert-boozy-brits-abroad)

A campaign urging holidaymakers to drink sensibly and keep out of trouble has been launched across the Mediterranean in the hope of improving the poor image of the British abroad.




/jarmo

Where's Christos?

Did AdZ finally press charges against him?

what's great about brits is that they (or sort of we )stand corrected and  try to improve themselves.  :yes:

I have been wondering why Christos is MIA myself.

 :hihi: The fact that someone found that necessary might be a bit of a warning sign. I didn't know their rep was that bad

me too, who'll take his global mod place  :o maybe mrlee

i thinks i saw his posts... regarding darkness. or maybe it was just a christos mention.


na it's not that bad yet i think.  better do something before it gets too bad.

From my personal experience british are by far the worst tourists.

Of course there are exceptions but I am used to seeing large groups of young British people taking over small towns in greek islands and completely destroying them.

when it comes to rock fans, americans in my experience are by far the worst. going to a concert in the US is like going to the movies. No passion at all. Just people recording the show with cell phones.

^YOU DOWN'T KNOW WOT WE BRITISH IS FUCKIN' LIKE *burp*


j/k, it wouldn't surprise me if British tourists, especially the younger ones, are often.... unpleasant. Just be thankful you don't have to live in the same country as some of these tools. :P

That explains AdZ's anger problems.

I do miss his random insults though.  I'm game if he wants to use me for target practice, I just want to see some action.

sometimes i think htgth should have a "like" button, like facebook, then i would've liked you post, now i'm just ramblin' on and on and on and on and on so it won't be a smiley only post  : ok:

We have "two fans" of AdZ's insults.

Start up the Facebook group Jon.

But every time I see them
Makes me wish I had a gun