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The Worst Tourists In The World

 
 
Margin Walker
03:05 / 08.08.02
[grumble] Let's see, over in the "Kick Ass!" thread, the Americans already got "fat" & "stupid" going, maybe we can add "worst tourists in the world" to that list and make it a hat trick. [/grumble]

Seriously, which nation has the worst tourists in the world? And what makes them the worst? Is it the dunderheaded ignorance? Perhaps their supercilious haughtiness? Or maybe because they're a bunch of cheap bastards that annoy you?
 
 
the Fool
06:17 / 08.08.02
I was pretty sickened to find out that at Octoberfest there is (apparently) a special plastic lined tent just for Australians. Apparently drinking games held therein require at least 3 body fluids...

Imagine the smell...
 
 
Ganesh
06:59 / 08.08.02
The British abroad are fairly appalling. Several times, we've drawn a distinction between English and Scottish - "ah, but we're different, y'see; we're not like them..."

Italian tourists in Edinburgh during Festival time seem uniquely hive-minded in their reluctance to travel in groups of less than twenty. They swarm like bees around entrances and exits, overwhelming public transport systems and blocking pavements with their oversized backpacks and strange little 'honey dances'.
 
 
Sax
07:09 / 08.08.02
The worst group of tourists I ever came across was a plane-load of Canadians in Cuba. They were all pissed, throwing beer bottles at each other and smoking and pissing in the pool. And they were all in their forties and fifties.
 
 
Grey Area
07:40 / 08.08.02
I second the nomination of the Italians...one bus-load of them can take over an entire holiday complex, commandeering the pool area at the best times for aerobics (led by the loudest of the group) and raiding the buffet so that nothing is left for other guests. If you have Italians in your diving group, prepare to have your view obscured by clouds of silt thrown up by their careless antics, and to have the start of your dive delayed by a minimum of half an hour while you wait for the stragglers to saunter along and by their inability to assemble their equipment properly.

Another nomination: The Russians. Drunk, loud and violent. Polyester and chunky gold on every visible bodypart. Not a crowd you want to meet on a night out, or even during the day as they firmly believe that the best way to avoid a hangover is to simply keep drinking.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
10:26 / 08.08.02
There was an interesting wee series on tv here a couple of years ago where four groups of tourists: Americans, Germans, Japanese and Brits were invited to an out of the way hotel in Turkey and seceretly filmed undergoing various tourist-type psychological tests.

I seem to recall the Brits, as usual, just got drunk from dawn till dusk and partaayyyyed. Fun, if you were part of that group, and hellish to be around, if not.

Americans loud and obnoxious and not happy at all to find the Turks doing things in a damnably Turkish way.

Germans seemed to have a hard time having any fun at all and the Japanese were just lovely. My memory may be a little faulty there though.

Got to say the Italians are a plague in Edinburgh in the Summer, right enough, but when I'm abroad it's usually the other Brits I try to avoid.
 
 
MJ-12
11:52 / 08.08.02
from the bbc

surprise results in
 
 
Baz Auckland
12:43 / 08.08.02
Some of the worst I've seen were Germans in Istanbul laughing
and shouting and all the rest inside a mosque. One of those
"umm.. I'm not a tourist! really!" moments.

Canadians abroad always seem to annoy me for some reason.
 
 
w1rebaby
13:06 / 08.08.02
If the English are routinely pissed-up and loud in foreign parts, I suggest that there is a "booze cruise" mentality coming into play here, people literally intoxicated by the freedom of being able to buy alcohol at reasonable prices.

The solution is therefore to educate the English in sensible alcohol use by reducing the cost of alcohol at home. Oh yes. In fact, it should be subsidised, for the sake of our international reputation.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:13 / 08.08.02
I think everyone hates people from their home country when out travelling. Fuck knows I had to restrain the urge to firebomb The Walkabout whenever I went past.

"Strewth! I'm in London! Pass us a tinnie, mate. Fark, wouldya cop a load of the norks on that chick! Fuck, I'd root her, no mistake..."

Sweet detachable Christ. It writes itself with alarming ease. Bastards.
 
 
gravitybitch
14:07 / 08.08.02
I looked at the "surprise results" and was truly surprised - Americans are seen as polite??? Maybe they save their good behavior for traveling...

Anyway, I want to put in a vote for ignorant tourists of any stripe. I am so sick of people showing up in San Francisco in July in nothing but shorts and tank tops; I've seen enough bumpy blue knees to last a lifetime. July is prime fog season here - do a little research!!!
 
 
Stone Mirror
14:53 / 08.08.02
The worst tourists in the world?

Anyone who comes to visit my town.
 
 
Margin Walker
16:35 / 08.08.02
Heh, reminds me of an old quote an Asterix book (it was Geriatrix, actually): "I don't mind foreigners--as long as they stay in their own country."
 
 
Vadrice
21:18 / 08.08.02
My only gripe is that Indians never tip.
 
  
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