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Americans: The World's 2nd Best Tourists?

by Justin Glow (RSS feed) on Aug 20th 2007 at 11:00AM

In a recent poll of 1,500 European hotel managers, Americans were given the number two spot for the world's best tourists, second only to the Japanese. "Americans were seen as the most likely to try to speak a foreign language and the most interested in sampling local food," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Further, U.S. tourists were ranked third for both "most polite" and "best behaved" tourists (behind the British and Japanese, and Japanese and German, respectively), and ranked first in tipping and overall spending.

Yanks did, however, fall short in a couple of categories. "Americans were seen, by an overwhelming margin, as the shabbiest dressers, the most likely to complain and the second noisiest. Who's louder? Only the Italians."

And sorry, France, but you were ranked as the worst tourists in the world -- followed by India and China.

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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)

J.B. Sep 14th 2007 12:26PM

# 14 You are totaly correct
I do agree with the statement that American's stick out for several reason.
SLOB'S and shabbie dresser's.
Noisy is the second one(equal's arrogance and ME ME)
sorry to say, I see it when I am over in Europe and I don't like it. WE could do better and I must say the best and conservative dresser's where the
German's. Also I attended their Festival's and they are NOT unfriendly,humorless. NOT TRUE they have a lot of FUN , more than American's do. SORRY to kill the myth.

J.B. Sep 14th 2007 12:31PM

# 29 + 31

You personify the IGNORANCE that excist in America
Stay home and don't go overseas? are you a HICK?
I got to say , dress better, don't stick out like a slob and nobody will know you are an American.
The world traveler's are less ignorant, brighter, better educated etc enough said about ignorance.

J.B. Sep 14th 2007 12:33PM

#14

Correct all the way

American's DO NOT have ANY sense of fashion or neatness. Comfort and the disgusting attitude
I don't give a damm about anybody else is our Mantra.
shame on US

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