On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:29:53 -0700, "Peter L"
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>"Keith Anderson" wrote in message
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>> On 7 Oct 2003 10:10:52 -0700, pblackden@hotmail.com (Blackden) wrote:
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>> >Brits were judged the least welcome tourists in an Expedia survey this
>> >summer, but European stereotypes of the Ugly American tourist are
>> >still common, and Israeli and Australian tourists are often said to
>> >match the British for rudeness and drunken misbehaviour respectively.
>> >Does anyone have any anecdotes relating to this? Who *are* the world's
>> >worst tourists?
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>> Pretty much any nationality travelling in a big organised group, where
>> they hang their brains up like their coats as soon as they meet the
>> tour leader. "Haha, we'll be looked after and have our arses/asses
>> wiped for us. Responsibility ends here!" The herd mentality then takes
>> over.
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>Or any nationality traveling independently, who thinks he/she is morally
>superior to others simply because of the method of travel.
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>Or any nationality who judge other with broad strokes.
The above observations apply mainly to Brits and are the result of
working with tour-groups over a period of 4 years. To illustrate:
Me (on walking tour of wherever): "Please leave a gap so that people
doing their shopping can get past you."
(May as well talk to a brick wall).
Punter (angrily): "Why don't they accept pounds here?"
Me: "Does your local newsagent accept Euros?"
And so on and so forth.
And yes, individual travellers can be just as ignorant.
FWIW, the best behaved tour groups I've worked with have been Germans.
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