World's Worst Tourists? Mon Dieu!
Friday July 10, 2009
Who do you think the worst tourists are? It may surprise some that the answer is not the 'Ugly Americans.' Sure, we U.S. tourists get poor marks for how we dress, but a recent survey from Expedia found that Americans also get some love for their generosity (tops in the world). American tourists also got credit for at least attempting to use the local language when traveling abroad, a finding I found to be a pleasant surprise.
However, U.S. tourists got low marks for cleanliness, being too loud, and complaining too much.
So, who are the worst tourists? The French. Expedia found that French tourists are most likely to be called rude, cheap, and reluctant to speak anything other than French when traveling. Japanese tourists were rated the best for their cleanliness, politeness, and uncomplaining attitudes.
In top-to-bottom order, Expedia ranked the best overall tourists as being from Japan, Britain, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Australia, Sweden, the U.S., and Denmark.
How about it, Caribbean travel people -- Do you agree?
We’ve recently returned from a trip to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. We experienced many different nationalities while staying at a Lovely All-Inc. Resort.
By far the rudest people that we came across were French ! Met many friendly Canadians, Americans too ! The Dominican people were VERY FRIENDLY folk! We were off resort on 3 different ocassions, the locals that we ran
into were great!
Have traveled to Bahamas, Jamaica, Panama, Cuba and Dominican Republic and the worst tourists I’ve encountered were invariably British. The younger ones all look like an unwashed Vin Diesel, large multiple tats on both men and women while the older ones all have beer bellies, smoke like chimneys and the larger the woman the more they go topless. All of them braying in adenoidal tones and complaining about the lack of chips, beer and beans at breakfast. Late at night, they are the ones who have loud drunken conversations outside your hotel door and they push in front of you in the buffet.