The best tourists in the world are...

From Reuters: And the best tourists in the world are...

Sounds pretty accurate...

Americans worst dressed
Germans least generous
Brits rude and noisy
And my favorite... France, the worst tourist nation.

I know many Americans that have "tourist" clothes. Shit they wouldn't be caught dead in at home, but pack their bags full of to fill like they are really on vacation. I would say that noisy colored Hawaiian style shirts come in first place and many come with their own batteries.

I was reading the same topic from a different website: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features?articleid=2897524

I liked their summary at the end:
• The best tourists in the world were the Japanese, who were considered polite and tidy.

• The worst were the French, who were unwilling to speak the local language, ungenerous and impolite.

• Americans were the
worst-dressed tourists, followed by Britons, with Italians, French and Spanish the best dressed.

• The Japanese were also the best behaved, beating the Germans and the Americans, who came top for their behaviour in a similar survey published in 2002.

• The British, Russians and Danes were cited as having the worst behaviour.

• The Americans are no longer the most polite, slipping to third place since 2002. The Japanese are now the most polite, while British manners have improved significantly from last place to second this year.

• The Americans have changed their approach to travelling and now rank highest for attempting to speak the local language.

• The Italians are the loudest on holiday, followed by the Americans and the British, while the Japanese, Chinese and Swiss are the quietest.

• The Germans are the perfect guests, tidying up before their chambermaid arrives.

They don't just do that on vacation either. Plenty of people who have a cleaning lady will clean before the cleaning lady comes because they would be embarrassed for her to see the house in an unclean state. I don't quite get it, but then I don't have a cleaning lady. Maybe my Germanness would come out then.

not just germans do that, one of my aunts, we had to fight with her to let us get a cleaning lady, she had arthritis and was 90 at the time, then she fell and broke a rib, tidying up before the cleaning lady got there.

Sadly my mom will do that. She would always make me clean up my room. I would understand if i had junk all around so it was impossible to get in there, but she's beyond that.
My mom doesn't do it because she doesn't want people to see the mess (minus the basement and her closet and of course the kids rooms the house wasn't allowed to be a mess) i don't know why she does it, but whenever I see Ray, the cleaning lady, she always jokes how she doesn't need to go there and her only job while there is to try to come up with ways to convince my mom to get rid of some of her junk.

San Francisco Chronicle: European survey gives high marks to U.S. tourists


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... and discussed by TT in May right here: The best tourists in the world are...