World's Best Tourists.
Some people use their vacation to express their inner idiot ( 
). Not these
Mention the word “tourist” and you can be forgiven for recalling the expectorations, feeble linguistic skills and criminally small swimming briefs of this homogenous traveler “race.”
But not everyone’s like that.
To celebrate the diplomatic power of diversity, we’ve compiled a list of the best traveling nationalities. Including people who, even at their worst, are sort of memorable.
Which is why we travel in the first place.
It’s not scientific, it’s not definitive and it will probably make most nations not on it (and perhaps a few that are) angry -- which is another reason to love them
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Yep. The one about the Brits is priceless!
Deprived of sunlight at home...
That's exactly it!
Always unable to communicate in the local lingo...
Sad but true
If you buy them a beer -- or even suggest it -- they’ll be your friend for life.
Now you're talking my language!
The one about British tourists is hilarious!
Identifying travel feature: The nuclear tan. Deprived of sunlight at home, the English love frazzling their delicate complexions with the deadly rays emanating from our nearest star.
Commendable habits: They can (usually) speak English, and the tendency to burn can be used as a handy vacation timeline. Day 1: alabaster. Day 2: lobster. Day 3: blister. Day 4: peeler.
If you buy them a beer -- or even suggest it -- they’ll be your friend for life.
Shortcomings: For the English, vacations and alcohol go together like cheap liquor and waking up in a foreign hospital attached to a drip. Always unable to communicate in the local lingo, they resort to speaking English slowly and loudly: “Call ... the ... embassy ... someone ... has ... stolen ... my ... kidney...”
Where's my friend Billygoat? I miss that guy!
This is so true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I actually apologize for George W. everywhere I go!!
Americans:
Declaring themselves not American at every opportunity, as if they think they’re going to be blamed for the Iraq war, global warming or Sarah Palin.
Here, we have a lot of British tourists and I can certainly spot them from metres away! At their first days at the sea they're so white that you think they're going to get a sunburn if they stay for too long under the sun. Unfortunately, I see them the other day completely sunburnt, like lobsters, with a red face, chest and back! Myself, I'm too white and blond for a Greek and I often get sunburnt, but these guys don't have any melanin at all!
In August, I was in Bucharest and I stayed in a hotel with tourists from all over the world, Americans, French, British, Japanese and Italians. That was a great opportunity to observe the differences in idiosyncrasy. Japanese people were strolling holding a camera and taking pictures even inside the hotel, Italians and Greeks were being very loud.
Very funny, especially the bit about the Brits.
I am a rare Brit in that I don't burn easily, in fact neither do my kids, the only one who burns at the first sight of the sun is my partner, which is strange as me and the kids are very pale and his skin is much darker.
When I was on the beach recently my sister got burnt but not me, and she had been in Greece for most of the summer and lives in Spain. Mind you I did use factor 50 sunscreen and she only had 30.
I guess the best tourist, no matter where they are from, is someone who visits a country, spends tons of money and enjoys their surroundings without drawing a lot of attention to themselves.
I have a profile of the tourist that makes me cringe the most. It is usually an American male in his twenties, or even early thirties (depending on the maturity level). They hang out at the swim up or poolside bars at all-inclusive hotels drinking the day away and getting louder and more obnoxious with each drink. When requesting a drink from the bartender, they feel the need to let everyone hear. They also use a combination of both languages in every sentence without any attempts at pronouncing the words correctly. 
Give me two más beers por favorl!
