The French

French tourists seen as world's worst: survey


Thu Jul 9, 2009
Reuters


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.

... and the best part - the rationalization ...

"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.


So let's summarize: rude, arrogant, tight-fisted, do not speak other peoples languages, and they make up excuses for their bad behavior and blame it on stress. Is this why, a number of years ago, the French suffered a summer of death and thousands died whent he temperatures reached 100 degrees, and rather than return from their summer vacations, the French remained on holiday and the bodies remained in morgues, unclaimed. Pretty much sums of the French. And we aren't being anti-French ... the WORLD knows how the French are, and mostly we sort of just shrug our shoulders and say - que sera sera ... that's how the French are.












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