Can we really be the worst behaved tourists in the world?!

We’ve all been there; cringing while on holiday as a fellow brit over-reacts, makes a fool of themselves and swears at the waiter or staff. All of a sudden you’re reluctant to order anything or even speak a single word of English and start searching the back of your brain for a scrap of GCSE foreign language skills.

Over the years it’s fair to say we’ve tried our best to up our game but it looks as if football hooligans, socks and sandals are keeping us at the bottom of those most loved charts. A recent Expedia Best Tourist research campaign, carried out with over 4,000 hoteliers worldwide, saw to naming and shaming the best and worst tourists in the world, marking them on behaviour, politeness, respect for local culture and style.

Well guess what, we brits were named the worst by European Hoteliers for neglecting (possibly to even register the existence of) local culture, as well as being rude and pretty darn messy! How could this happen? We’re behind both the Germans and the Americans who topped the chart as the best behaved tourists in the world.

However, it’s not all doom and gloom for we British. We’re regarded as big spenders, which is always nice, coming a close second to the Americans. We’re also the most polite after the Japanese, and (can you believe it!) the second best dressed after the Italians.

Well looks like we’re not doing too bad after all that! The only major other thing to worry about, (let’s make an effort this year Britain!) is that we’re regarded as by far the messiest going.