‘Rude’ French are worst tourists
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French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as penny-pinching, rude and terrible at languages, according to the results of a new survey by Expedia. According to a BBC report, the online travel company 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. While French travellers ranked highly on elegance, discretion and cleanliness, they polled as the least ready to try a new language, unlike US tourists who were most likely to swallow their pride and learn the local lingo. US tourists also got top marks for generosity, as the biggest spenders and tippers, however 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. In Europe however, the British were seen by the hoteliers as the worst behaved.
The model Japanese were followed by Canadians as the least likely to complain. France’s rivals for the world’s “worst tourist” tag, Spaniards and Greeks, came near the bottom in almost every category.
The top five were polled as follows:
1) Japan
2) Britain
3) Canada
4) Germany
5) Switzerland
Source:Expedia.co.uk
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