In your experience, which country's tourist groups tend to behave badly wherever they go?

Wednesday 09th April, 08:40 AM JST

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notimpressed at 03:39 PM JST - 9th April

Wow Aussie is getting more grief than I expected... noone hates us Kiwis yet? Im guessing our behaviour at oktoberfest is less than exemplary. And we sure are despised in Aussie. Butthen who doesnt australia hate?

SOmeone had it right though...this question is a bit dodgy and encouraging of ill-tolerance. But its Fun!! 0.o
Ninjazilla at 04:01 PM JST - 9th April

Talk about loaded questions!
sabiwabi at 04:27 PM JST - 9th April

I witnessed Israeli youths behaving badly at an airport last year.
williamsmith at 06:38 PM JST - 9th April

I'm not sure Israelis count for this thread; they are banned from most countries so we can't match them up most places. But Oh, Isrealis are the worst in India, talk about arrogance and disrespect! I saw an Israeli wearing a "Free Tibet" t-shirt; now that is IRONY!
Farmboy at 06:41 PM JST - 9th April

Have to agree with TJRandom about the Martians. Always invading in those flying saucer tour groups, destroying with ray guns, blowing up things, kidnapping people to perform experiments... And the smell! I just can't abide them.
Loki520 at 06:46 PM JST - 9th April

"Moderator: Why are you puzzled? The question specifically asks for opinions on any nationality of tourist group."

I think the confusion is because your allowing comparisions between nationalities on something as trivial as tourism. When news article posts about something as serious as crime, etc... you ban comparisions of ANY type as irrelevant and "off topic".

In other words... you pick and choose your moderation policy based on what ever message you want to convey.
Honne at 07:47 PM JST - 9th April

The answer to this one is pretty easy. Every single country's tourists groups has arrogant ignorant self-centered disrespectful obnoxious idiots that behave like total morons wherever they go. Face it, life and the tourism industry in every country which has tourism would be boring without these offensive nitwits. If I had my own country, it wouldn't even be called tourism. I would call it asshatism.
Ultradude at 04:39 PM JST - 10th April

I tend to agree with Honne, the problem is tourists in "groups" generally tend to be easily annoying to others who aren't in thier group. The nastiest behavior I've seen abroad was Aussies at Oktoberfest in Munich taking off stinky wool hiking socks and dipping it in beer (with vomit already mixed in it) and then sucking the liquid from the wet sock. Good on ya...way to ruin other peoples hedonistic worshipping of the golden nectar.
romulus3 at 05:12 PM JST - 10th April

French. Just plain rude
rtrhead1 at 08:30 AM JST - 11th April

Japanese tourists in CA. It is kinda insulting to have them point at us and say look at all the gaijin here...
rajakumar at 06:07 PM JST - 12th April

All nationalities and their tourists, even your own nationality can lose control of their behaviour.

The main importance of tourism is to make all nationalities well travelled,better and wiser via a lot of travel.

New traveller tourists have to start some lost of control of behaviour some where. If they do not make mistakes how are beginner tourists going improve,get wiser and become well travelled individuals.
frontandcentre at 12:31 PM JST - 14th April

The British, unfortunately - however depends where they are. Brits tend to misbehave when in numbers and on cheap flights to European beer brewing countries or a week in the sun. They can be really bad.

Kiwis argue about sport, to the point of having a fight, which is silly.

Americans - well at least you can hear them coming wherever they are... many of whom are sure to spoil any tranquil spot in Japan with their noisy pronouncements.

I can't honestly believe that some people are saying the Japanese - surely high-spending, well-behaved tourists who don't drop litter and don't stick around are a tourist attractions' dream?
redacted at 12:49 PM JST - 14th April

As a group I've found Canadian males to be probably the most well-adjusted single category of traveler to Japan, though it's a different story with their womenfolk.

Perhaps there is some corollary.
usaexpat at 11:14 PM JST - 15th April

Americans and Germans pretty much universally disliked wherever they go. My best friend works for a Japanese company in Germany and always jokes that the Germans are the Americans of Europe. They travel with the expectation that everyone will cater to them and try to make their experiences as much like home as possible.
VOR at 03:22 AM JST - 16th April

This is such an inherently racist question only true racists would take the time to respond with a nationality of their disliking.