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World's Best and Worst tourist
« on: July 11, 2009, 03:59:29 PM »
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PARIS (AFP) - Penny-pinching, rude and terrible at foreign languages: French people are the world's worst tourists and Japanese the best, according to a study of the global hotel industry.

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Carried out last month by TNS Infratest for the Expedia online travel agency, the study asked 40,000 hotels worldwide to rank tourists from 27 countries based on nine criteria, from their politeness to their willingness to tip.


Clean and tidy, polite, quiet and uncomplaining, Japanese tourists came top of the crop for the third year running.


At the other end of the spectrum, French holidaymakers and business travellers were the least generous or ready to tip, and ranked next-to-last for their overall behaviour and politeness.


Pushy 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 fell short on other counts as the least tidy, the loudest, the worst complainers, and the most badly dressed.


Despite cliches about beer-guzzling hordes descending on Mediterranean resorts each summer, Britons came a surprise second for their overall behaviour, politeness, quietness and even elegance -- second for dress sense only to the Italians.


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


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


The study was released on Thursday.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090710/oddities/lifestyle_tourism_travel_france_offbeat
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Re: World's Best and Worst tourist
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2009, 06:08:17 PM »
Surprising indeed. I'd have sworn Brits and Americans would have the worst reputations.
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Re: World's Best and Worst tourist
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2009, 08:57:22 PM »
Everyone hates the French...sorry Phenix.  :D
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Re: World's Best and Worst tourist
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2009, 02:46:14 AM »
Phenix gets a pass, he can lay claim to the high Canadian standard. :phew:
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