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.
WORLD'S BEST TOURISTS
Japan
Britain
Canada
Germany
Switzerland
Holland
Australia
Sweden
USA
Denmark
Source:Expedia.co.uk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8143780.stm
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Hi,
Thanks for sharing this link - but unfortunately it seems to be not working? Does anybody here at wiskeytangofoxtrotoscar.blogspot.com have a mirror or another source?
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Daniel
It's a one man operation here but link has been corrected to reflect the BBC site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8143780.stm
I had to go deep into the weeds and fix it in HTML but link now points where it is supposed to.
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