Presenting the World's worst Tourists: The French
 

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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.
(Reporting by Joseph Tandy; editing by James Mackenzie)

The best?

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You must spread THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST around before giving THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST to canyons again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-K8...layer_embedded

AmericanHero911 (3 days ago)

That many bests??

Is this a joke? xD

bahaha

I feel bad for them now. :(

they aren't rude. they're just stressed and confused.

poor poor traveling french, all sad and far from home; a home made out of gingerbread houses and culture.





FOR TAX-CREDIT PURPOSES: this post fulfills my yearly french-bagging quota and qualifies me for the $5,063.67 deduction.

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Nonsense. The fact is we frenches are just plain ol' bastards.
(but i never travel, neither abroad or inside france, so i'm not part of it :))

people do seem to revert to their national stereotype when they're abroad. maybe it's a defence mechanism, or a form of homesickness.

you frenchies need to get out more.

kind of true tho, i only remember meeting one french dude while i was in australia. and he did seem pretty arrogant.

tho at a hostile one night eating dinner, there were a couple girls speaking french and they were cute and friendly, so I'm guessing they were belgian or swiss

I would say, from my experience, that my fellow Brits really do deserve this prize sometimes. Rude, arrogant, incapabale of speaking English let alone a second language, racist (I recall an excruciating incident in Sydney Harbour involving some UK fuckwits and Japanese tourists), moaning....no wonder the world loves a Englishman abroad *facepalm*

Presenting the World's worst Tourists: The French???...really???



French tourists Perrine Demets (left) Delphine Pollet, and Come Dubois (right) kick up their heels as they celebrate Christmas on Sydney's Bondi Beach - Mail Online.

haha.

for some reason i become a complete imbecile when i'm in america. i forget basic rules, such as not to go behind the counter to get my own cigarettes. i did that in ohio and was told i was lucky the bloke who owned the shop (who really did look like james hetfield) didn't shoot me.

i came out of a blockbuster video and went to my friend's car and got in. only it wasn't my friend's car, it was somebody elses, and i sat there for about thirty seconds while this woman and her kids just stared at me until i got out. again i was told afterwards i was lucky they didn't shoot me.

things like that never happen to me in england but, for some reason, the minute i cross the atlantic and consume alcohol i just become ridiculously lacks.

God Bless America. One of the few countries where you will be repeatedly warned about not have been shot, even though it was just an innocent mistake.

Demonrail, I think the reason you loosen up once crossing our customs is because you have finally found yourself in a free country. And everyone knows that in free country you can do whatever you want.

I think that's my problem. I read some Tom Paine on the plane over, have a beer and suddenly become Peter Fonda circa 1966.

Don't feel bad, I was born in this country and except for about 2 years, have lived here my entire life. I still have those Peter Fonda moments of national idealism and self-clarity, then the next day I'm hungover.

I'll shoot the first tourist that TRIES to get in my car.

DOES IT SAY "LE CAR", MOTHERFUCKER??!?

Woite ze feuck ?!!!!
That's bullshit !!!
No, we're not arrogant, we just have the best country in the world. It's a indisputable fact, that' s all, we're better than you.
And we don't like to speak local language because nobody speaks french in non French-speaking countries whereas our inkeepers, guides... make a special effort to speak in many languages to please tourists.




Hey, why are you throwing stones at me ?!!!
I was kiddin' !!!

Actually, these might be the world's worst Tourists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cXOesI1Aw0

I was drunk and loaded down with tubs of ice cream. The car was white, like my friend's, and a similar model.

I did apologise, incidentally. They said nothing and just watched as what looked like a 6 ft plus Black Sabbath roadie circa 1971 finally disembarked from their 'automobile'. Maybe the Jessica Simpson looking daughter still masturbates each night at what might've been had her mum not been at the wheel. Maybe the dad went out and bought another gun once he'd found out what'd happened. Maybe I should've left them the ice cream.