The worst tourists

[gunnut]

French tourists seen as world's worst: survey

Thu Jul 9, 6:06 am ET

PARIS (Reuters Life!) – 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 per cent 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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[TopHatter]

This came as a surprise to who?

And it's those same insular qualities that make the French feel that tourists in France are rude and arrogant.

[omon]

my friend went on vac to paris, aside from gypsies, that try to get your money or steal your things, he had one unplesant experience.
riding a train him and his wife were sitting across some lady reading magazine, and what they thought was highliting something in there, when train stoped, she threw that magazine at them,and ran out, they were like wtf, than they looked at the magazine, that lady drew big swastikas on dozens of pages, my friend was wearing a chain with the star of david.

[Parihaka]

They do tend to get a bit demonstrative at times



Sorry Oscar

[Bigfella]

PARIS (Reuters Life!) – 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.

Funnily enough, that description also fits many British and (apart from tight fisted) American tourists as well.

The worst tourists are grounps of young men.

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by Parihaka

They do tend to get a bit demonstrative at times

Sorry Oscar

*Waving hands in a disorderly way* Ha! these people have no culture and no history! they call their piss "wine" with a straight face, their chicks are average, plus the things they do with their sheep that I didn't quite understand, and they don't even speak FRENCH! Lets bomb them, honey.

Its the world who comes to France, not the other way around.

[Tarek Morgen]

mh weird..to us the French were always rather nice when we visited them.

[TopHatter]

Originally Posted by Tarek Morgen

mh weird..to us the French were always rather nice when we visited them.

That's because your "tour guides" had names like von Moltke, von Hindenburg and von Rundstedt

[Dreadnought]

Its the world who comes to France, not the other way around.
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*Only to save your ass. Not because of your food or women.
Well ok Sarcozy's wife might due.

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by Tarek Morgen

mh weird..to us the French were always rather nice when we visited them.

Rhhaaa...My joke-o-meter just exploded Tarek. Renew your stock once in a while.

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

*Only to save your ass. Not because of your food or women.
Well ok Sarcozy's wife might due.

Its because you have no taste, junk food and brainless blondes with fake b00bs....Bah!

Edit: can't say b00bs??? This is an American board or what?

[Tarek Morgen]

Originally Posted by TopHatter

That's because your "tour guides" had names like von Moltke, von Hindenburg and von Rundstedt

Reminds me of an old joke...(I'll try to translate it into English, I hope it still works)

A group of young U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany enter a local Biergarten at a Friday night. After several rounds of beer they start to loudly tell tales of past conquests (of girls) and other exploits, each story trying to top the ones before it. After a while they notice that an old German man sitting near them is only laughing and shaking his head at their stories. After they ask him what he finds so funny the old man replies:

"That is the best you have ever done? Some Farmers daughter? Or a brawl in some small backwater town Inn? Listen lads, when I was you age, me and some budies went to Paris and the famous Moulin Rouge. We drank their whole supply of liquors, had sex with every girl, trashed the whole place to pieces and left without paying a dime. It was the best night of our life..."

Not being wanted to get toped by some old German guy the soldiers accept the challange and decide to visit the Moulin Rouge on their own, with promise to tell their adventure as soon as they return.

One week later the old German guy sees the group of American again in the Biergarten. Badly beaten up, with apparrantly several broken bones.

"My god, what happened to you??" he asks them

"Well, we did what you said, we went to Paris and the Moulin Rouge, got drunk and started to trash the place...until at least a dozen bouncers jumped us.."

"You must have done something wrong" the old man replies.

"What do you mean? We did everything exactly like you said!" one of the soldiers replies.

After a moment of thinking the old man replies.

"Well, how did you get to Paris for example?"

confused one G.I. replies: "We rented a car and drove, why?"

"Ah..." the German answers" "See, thats what you did wrong. Me and my budies went there not by car but with the first Panzerdivision..."

[tankie]

Originally Posted by Bigfella

Funnily enough, that description also fits many British and (apart from tight fisted) American tourists as well.

The worst tourists are grounps of young men.

Thats true , why the tossers give the UK a bad name abroad is beyond me

[Tarek Morgen]

Originally Posted by Oscar

Rhhaaa...My joke-o-meter just exploded Tarek. Renew your stock once in a while.

making at least now and then fun of the French is a pillar of the German culture. Sorry, we just can't help it. At least we've stopped invading you.

Though, when I was in France the people were always actually rather nice and polite. Though it made a huge difference if you tried to talk to them in broken French (which they prefered) or more or less fluent English (with most did not like).

[tankie]

Originally Posted by Tarek Morgen

mh weird..to us the French were always rather nice when we visited them.

Apart from the resistance , and the fact that the French always beat you to the beach with their towels .