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Posted on 07/09/2009 11:57:20 AM PDT by americanophile
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.
"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.
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Sacrebleu!
Sean’s A, Lee’s A.
And the frogs complain about us...screw ‘em.
French Canadians are probably worse.
païsantes
I guess you can afford to be arrogant when you come from a country that is a military powerhouse.
I feel sorry for them, because they’re French. So I excuse they’re bad behavior.
They are not that friendly at home either.
” “The French don’t go abroad very much. “
And there you have it. They call us “boorish” and “un-cultured”, yet here are the frogs who seldom travel. Go figger’..
Only the unsophisticated don’t speak French. Of course, without the US, the French not currently lampshades would be speaking German, wouldn’t they!
I used to work with a fellow from Francewho got a work visa and came to the US to work.
He said the reason was that the French were so rude even he couldn’t stand them.
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