UncategorizedJuly 9, 2009 6:32 pm
Expedia did a survey of several thousand hoteliers about what they think of tourists from various different countries. They rated them on politeness, loudness, generosity, likelihood to complain, all sorts of things. There were some expected results, but also some surprises.
Top five (starting from the best): Japanese, British, Canadians, Germans, Swiss.I'll leave it to you to guess which ones I think are surprises.
Bottom five (starting from the worst): French, Spanish, Greeks, Turks, South Africans.
I'd say something about Yugoslavia, but (a) the country doesn't even exist anymore, and (b) perhaps they've changed in the nearly two decades since they were in the same hotel as my group in Moscow.
On the same trip, I got a permanently good impression of Rumanian tourists. They gave us the best rate we ever got on exchanging dollars for rubles. 25% higher than the going black market street rate!
Comment by Prof. X — July 10, 2009 @ 7:02 am