Brits labelled a disgrace
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More reports and surveys are disturbingly finding that the British tourist is leaving little to be desired in the eyes of Europe. The annual Expedia 2008 Best Tourist League, conducted amongst 4000 hotels worldwide, has revealed its latest findings. The survey ranked nationalities according to who were the best and worst in terms of behaviour, politeness, and respect for local culture, style and tipping waiting staff. According to European hoteliers, British tourists are the worst behaved in the world, but are snappy dressers and keener than most to sample the local cuisine. They were, however, no match for the French tourists’ unwillingness to speak local languages, tight-fistedness and impoliteness. |
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The results showed that for the second consecutive year Brits have been singled out for being “rude, messy and loud” while the Japanese, the Germans and the Americans come top for their politeness. Italians were the best dressers, followed by the Brits who also came second in the big spender stakes behind the Americans. Brits also came second in the eating local food category behind the Americans and confusingly, despite their bad behaviour tag, were also second in the polite stakes behind the Japanese. The Japanese came out overall as the best tourists in the world for their quiet and tidy natures while the Indians, French, Russians and Mexicans were at the bottom of the popular tourist league table. To further the negative stereotype - Germany's tabloid newspaper, Bild, has printed a list of holiday resorts to avoid - those dominated by the British. |
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The list comes after British man David Barnish, 47, was awarded £750 in compensation for a holiday in Greece which he argued had been spoilt by the number of German tourists and the fact that all the activities were organised in the German language. Bild quotes a German legal expert saying that Germans holidaying in all-British resorts would not have the same opportunity of suing and goes on to poke fun at British cuisine, sport and drinking habits. The Newspaper recommends avoiding the best-known destinations for British holidaymakers and lists the top six 'black spots' as the Bay of Palma in Majorca, San Antonio in Ibiza, Playa de las Americas in Tenerife, Ayia Napa in Cyprus, Faliraki on the Greek island of Rhodes and Malia in Crete. Just in case the Germans have a problem identifying British tourists abroad, Bild has a guide on its online version, illustrated with an unappealing photo of two sunburnt women on sun chairs! |
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