Top 10 Worst Tourist Nationalities

This is a list about travelers (by nationality) which have the worst behaviour while visiting other countries.

That doesn't mean all those people are bad, it just means that some of these travellers give their whole countrymen a bad name. And often the culture is just different, so people don't know they behave naughty.
The Top Ten
1 The Chinese

I was walking into the local store and there were 3 female tourists blocking my path. Took me a minute or 2 to enter cuz the women were lollygagging and talking. That caused a pedestrian traffic jam. They could've moved to the right or took their conversation elsewhere

A lot of Chinese people are very selfish, obnoxious, rude, and loud. They only see themselves and think about themselves. They cut in line, they let their kids go potty in public, they chew with their mouths open, they scream and yell at each other from miles away, and just do not understand common sense. It is disgusting to see them act in that way in different countries and they need to be taught that how they act in their own countries doesn't apply anywhere else. I feel bad for the children whose parents don't teach them that because in the future half the world is going to hate China for how they behave in other countries. It's also an embarrassment to the well educated and polite Chinese people around the globe.

2 The Americans

I have to agree despite being American myself. After all, a French officer in Courage the Cowardly Dog said, "stupid Americans". Wow. Truer words could have never been said by a background cartoon character to describe only the worst of American tourists!

American tourists talk so LOUDLY and older American female tourists wear a lot of jewelry even if it's only bling. A lovely, older American couple I know told me they're not traveling anymore because American tourists are hated, which is very sad.

They don't want to learn new things, be in contact with new cultures. Just keep consuming their food and way of life in other places.

3 The Russians

One of them nearly ruined my holiday. How retarded is it to leave your clothes in a changing booth on a beach only to come back later and break in without any sense of respect for the person currently changing (I.e. me)?!

They have no courtesy and I have almost been pushed out of the train by a Russian trying to get on at the same time as me, and no acknowledgement was made either

Some are very nice, but others are just drunken, impatient and start a fight with everyone... this is extremely annoying

4 The British

The British aren't bad really. They just have a bad drinking culture like the rest of Northern Europe, but obviously, the UK being the most populated nation in Northern Europe means that is exposed more to the world. When you're drunk you don't know what you're doing and do silly things.

The British are bad tourists in only certain areas, and are polite when they are not drinking. I've seen worse from Germans who don't have the excuse of alcohol consummation.

Hmm...I'm ashamed to say the Brits should be higher! Sometimes we behave appallingly (excluding myself of course) They seem to think that people abroad are the foreigners in their own country! Honestly...what a picture they paint of other decent, respectful Brits. Tsk!

British will not shut their mouth until they get what they want! They treating hotel staff like a slave and they are complimentary seekers.

5 The Indians

I work in costumer service and Indians are by far the rudest people I've ever encountered on my job. I would say that 8-9/10 Indians are very disrespectful when they talk to someone in a serving position. They're very impatient people and like to treat people like they own them. There are very polite Indian people as well but they tend to be the exception.

Not all Indians. But I think in general the west needs to wary of Indians/India because of their violent country. Stop supporting Bollywood, their actors incite hatred towards others all in the name of their country. Its extremism which should be called out

Drunk and racist. They come here and do not respect local culture or customs. They are uncultured and uneducated. No respect and very drunken behavior.

6 The Germans

German tourists are the world's worst. We just don't hear about it because their bad ones are reported in Germany not worldwide. Germans are drunk all the time and go to Spanish islands to simply get pissed and smash the place up. They do this in a lot of Eastern European nations too. Even the older ones are little educated and in-polite, and have the classic ''we are better than you and we why are there so much foreigners here'' attitude!

Loud, rude, lack of respect or manners. Always getting drunk, not learning our language, laughing at us for not speaking German. Very poorly behaved, always drinking and eating with their mouths full. German girls pray on you and get drunk to they literally can't walk. German men get so drunk they piss on war memorials and trash hotels/local customs. So disgustingly behaved!

Met 2 German girls in Magaluf. They were dressed appalling and had a terrible trashy accent coming onto you like there's no tomorrow. They got so drunk they couldn't even walk and laughed at anyone who wasn't speaking German. I've met several rude, disgusting, racist, and abusive Germans like this. No respect.

7 The French

The French are freeloaders and cannot accept the "no" answer. They demand and do not ask, they want to spend as little as possible and they want the best in return. They speak very badly English and pretend that everyone speaks French

Was on a bus this morning where a group of french women teens were insulting and threatening a local irish girl because she did open a window. The adult acompagnying them did not say a word...

The French are rude, uncultured snobs with little decent manners. They think they are the best in the world and have awful, dreadful accents.

8 The Italians

The Italians are the worst people of the world. It is not by chance that in may public places, in the past there was a panel saying "Entrance forbidden to DOGS and ITALIANS". Italians are ignorant, they do not speak any language and expect that in every Country in the worldpeople speaks Italian to please them. Italians are rude. they are extremely loud, shout at you, harrass women in the most rude and explicit way, they drink and destroy everything around them... when italians arrive in one touristic place, the holiday is finished for every other nationality.
Italians should be the number 1 in this list.

They are rude, loud, obnoxious and just very arrogant in general. They bump into you and don't apologize. They expect everyone to speak Italian regardless of where they are and get very condescending when someone doesn't speak Italian. You are in another country for Christ's sake. If you can't speak English stay in Italy.

9 The Israelis

Rude and always with a total disrespect for the local people. I witnessed two episode where groups of Israelis became violent. Once against a.fellow traveller defending a girl they were harassing and another time against an old man whose fridge they had just raided and he dared tell them off (it was his local bar). Not to forget in a hostel in Colombia 3 Israelis stole the food of the lady owner who was taking 3 young kids on a trip away. They had to cancel the trip. They threw rubbish everywhere.
In Nepal my hiking guide told me mountain lodges preferred to pretend to be full rather than taking them. It's not worth the absolute unpleasantness, and possibility of being robbed.
When working in the travel industry we had to pay more money to house Israeli groups in hotels. Because of stealing, rudeness (staff would call in sick), complaints from other guests etc.

I work in the travel industry and over the years have done an informal survey of travel guides in more than ten countries re which tourists are the most difficult. Unbelievably, the answer is ALWAYS the same country: the Israelis! I wonder if this is ever discussed in the Israeli press.

10 The Saudis

Cannot drink but always drunk, so can't even wake up untill 5 pm the next day. Never respect timings or policies in restaurants or hotels. Hotel rooms after them need to go for deep clean.

Entitled, racist, sexist, a-holes.

The Contenders
11 The Turkish

Beautiful country, worst people in the history of planet. I don't have to say anything, just open a history book.

12 The Spanish

Certainly, while I am a good tourist, some aren't. The problem is that this is one of the loudest countries and we go to bed at 11, 12 or even 1 o'clock. This is also a country that loves to party.

Often claim other nations are bad tourists but are incredibly uneducated and violent themselves.

Loud, unrespectfull... their concept of tourism is to go abroad comparing everything with Spain.
Their have an incrediblle lack of open mind about different things, different ways of living. Extremely self-centered. A kind of "me,me,me..."
They don't hesitate in making fun of everything they see.

LOUDIEST TOURISTS EVER. Fat, rudely behaved and don't respect local cultures.

13 The Brazilians
14 The Australians

Loud, rude when drunk. You will always know when an Australian is nearby because you'll hear them first ( can make this judgement as I am an Aussie myself, though nothing like my fellow aussie tourists). I was in Thailand and this young drunk Australian guy was insulting this poor Thai woman who owned a cafe, shouting at the at her and the customers saying that no one would come back to her cafe, because her food was terrible. I felt so bad for her!

I live in Bali.. and as a fellow Australian I see the worst of aussie tourists. Drunken, disrespectful of local culture, crass and ignorant. Being so close to Bali, we tend to get the small minded budget tourists, who think no rules or laws apply in Indonesia.

People holiday in Bali because it's cheap. You get what you pay for.

15 The Poles
16 The New Zealanders
17 The Malaysians

Selfie here, selfie there, can't stop with IG or FB, wonder why they even travelling abroad. Always look for Malaysian food and never bother with foreign food. Their pride is so annoying when they keep boasting how good their food is compared to others.

18 The Chileans
19 The Panamanians
20 The Filipinos
21 The Thai
22 The Botswanans
23 The Gabonese
24 The Mauritians
25 The Seychellois
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