Author Topic: Annoying tourists? Who's worse? (Read 863 times)

Martlet · « **on:** August 30, 2003, 06:27:47 PM »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3185291.stm

I've never known any German tourists, here or while I was abroad. I've seen a lot of Brits, though, and I've never found them to be anything but fun to hang out with.

Fishu · « **Reply #1 on:** August 30, 2003, 09:04:37 PM »

already 15 years ago those german tourists seemed to be a well known threat - couple weeks after I left turkey, some german tourists came to the same hotel and a friend told his friend who was staying longer in turkey at the time, told the germans had been 'quite active' in a bad way at the hotel I had been.

CyranoAH · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2003, 08:28:21 AM »

We get plenty of French, British and German tourists, and you really can't generalize. You get both nice people and complete tards from every nation.

Daniel

Spooky · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2003, 09:28:30 AM »

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Originally posted by CyranoAH
you really can't generalize. You get both nice people and complete tards from every nation.

Daniel

Just like on this BBS !

ccvi · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2003, 10:02:50 AM »

It has been this way for ages.

Ever thought that this number might correspond do the number of people on holiday in the sites questioned?

Martlet · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2003, 01:24:35 PM »

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Originally posted by ccvi
It has been this way for ages.

Ever thought that this number might correspond do the number of people on holiday in the sites questioned?

One of the sites quoted was in the Carib. I've been to almost every Carib. island, and seen a fair sampling of tourist represented.

ccvi · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2003, 01:27:42 PM »

Because one location is quoted in the arcticle that doesn't say anything about where the interviews did take place.

rc51 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 31, 2003, 03:20:53 PM »

Naw the dam ARABS are the rudist:D

vorticon · « **Reply #8 on:** August 31, 2003, 04:32:38 PM »

hmph i find most tourists pretty rude...no matter where they come from they all have the same "i know better than the guy whos lived here all his life" attitude...

and htey cant see the signs...

Martlet · « **Reply #9 on:** August 31, 2003, 06:35:09 PM »

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Originally posted by ccvi
Because one location is quoted in the arcticle that doesn't say anything about where the interviews did take place.

WTF difference does it matter where they took place? It's who they interviewed that matters.

Don't get your panties in a bunch because the rest of the world thinks you're rude.

Tuomio · « **Reply #10 on:** September 01, 2003, 02:47:07 AM »

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Originally posted by GScholz
Oh yes the German are known to act out their "Master People" play when on holiday. What I found surprising is that Americans are on third place. The Americans I've met here have all been very polite ... although I can say the same for the Germans I've met. Perhaps it's all about location?

Maybe, just maybe your booze prizes have some effect on this? Doesent a 0,5l pint in Oslo cost something like 15 euros?

Heater · « **Reply #11 on:** September 01, 2003, 03:18:01 AM »

I live in a "resort area" in the Netherlands, our house is right on the water with a private boat dock, and we are 200 meters from the beach,

so far this year we have had 4 boats towed from the dock (all German) and over 20 cars towed from the front yard, (German, British, Belgium & Dutch)

Not bad considering that the summer did not really start until July.

From what I hear it's pretty much the same every else, you will always have *******s in every group

Cheers

Nilsen · « **Reply #12 on:** September 01, 2003, 07:05:15 AM »

All tourists I have met here i norway has been very polite and friendly where ever they have spawned from as long as we have treated them in the same manner.

The worst "tourist" I have met are fellow norwegians either on holiday here in norway or if I run into them abroad

Boroda · « **Reply #13 on:** September 01, 2003, 10:25:19 AM »

The strangest thing about tourists is that they all seem to know for sure that I am the one who can speak English...

In a crowded underground car they come to me and ask for directions. Once I even had to give shelter to a guy from Nepal who was late for the last underground train and couldn't explain where he is going.

ccvi · « **Reply #14 on:** September 01, 2003, 01:54:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Martlet
WTF difference does it matter where they took place? It's who they interviewed that matters.

Nonsense. Each place for holidays has a certain kind of customer. There are places that are croweded by visitors from certain nations and very few from others. Questionaires there are going to result in high rudeness scores of those nations that happen to deploy the majority.

It also depends on how many people from a country are going on holiday each year, in absoulte numbers. A few visitors from Liechtenstein will probably not create high overall rudeness scores, while onehundredthousand visitors from one country representing more than 50% of all visitors to a certain place are going to be very high on the rudeness list when interviews take place there.