Funny, I wouldn't have guessed them at all.
(The British "fashion sense" is clearly being helped by the fact that so many Paddington Bears are being factored in.)
Here's a short feature from MSN today (well, I saw it today anyway).
updated 9:21 a.m. ET, Thurs., July 9, 2009
PARIS - French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as bad at foreign languages, tight-fisted and arrogant, according to a survey of 4,500 hotel owners across the world.
They finish in last place in the survey carried out for internet travel agency Expedia by polling company TNS Infratest, which said French holidaymakers don't speak local languages and are seen as impolite.
"It's mainly the fact that they speak little or no English when they're abroad, and they don't speak much of the local language," Expedia Marketing Director Timothee de Roux told radio station France Info.
"The French don't go abroad very much. We're lucky enough to have a country which is magnificent in terms of its landscape and culture," he said, adding that 90 percent of French people did their traveling at home.
"So when they're on holiday they can be a bit stressed, they're not used to things, and this can lead them to be demanding in a way which could be seen as a certain arrogance."
French tourists are also accused of generally spending less than other nationalities when abroad.
De Roux said the French, not accustomed to leaving large tips at home where a service charge is automatically levied on restaurant bills, can seem "tight-fisted" compared with other nationalities.
The Japanese ranked top of the Best Tourist survey, with the British and the Germans judged the best of the Europeans.
But French tourists received some consolation for their poor performance, finishing third after the Italians and British for dress sense while on holiday.
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I am always trying to get to France and once I am there the last thing on my mind is leaving. I completely understand why the French are bad tourists. What tops their homeland? (can you tell I'm a Franch wannabe? lol)
I would love to live in either Reykjavik or Paris in my dotage.
I can't imagine two more beautiful cities to lose one's mind in.
Of course, in Paris there would still be more violence.
Reyjkjavik might be a tad colder (no different than New York City, really, climate-wise in winter) and much drunker, but less chance of being murdered.
Although I suppose being murdered in Paris would have its own "cachet."
lol
For variety and constant change, Paris would clearly have an enormous edge.
And the architecture! Egad!
Paris could fill ten full-size books with its gorgeous structures.
Hope you're having a creative weekend, Rachel.
I like the new work on your blog.
You know me: i love the "energy forms visualized" ones best.
But then I guess your portraits are that too...the sense of aura.
I love that Russian painting where he tried to capture a beam of light.
That painting always gets me!
I can never remember that guy's name!
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