Japanese voted world’s best tourists by hoteliers

The second annual global Best Tourist Survey, conducted by Expedia®, a online travel company, has ranked the Japanese as the world’s best tourists overall among the 27 nationalities surveyed.

Around 4500 hoteliers across the globe provided their opinions on the best travellers overall, as well as on specific categories including politeness, generosity, behaviour, tidiness, fashion sense, willingness to try and speak the local language and the propensity to complain.

Like last year, the Japanese won the top prize, with hoteliers worldwide naming them as the world’s best tourists. They were ranked not only as the quietest and most polite, but also the cleanest and least likely to complain. The British again came in second place overall, followed by the Canadians.

The survey revealed that the French hold the unenviable reputation for being the world’s worst tourists. According to hoteliers, as well as being the most frugal and meanest tippers, they can also lay claim to being the most impolite tourists.

Arthur Hoffman, Managing Director, Expedia Asia Pacific, says, “Hoteliers are experts when it comes to interacting with tourists and the annual global Expedia Best Tourist Survey presents some interesting and intriguing perceptions about tourists from around the world.”

The best and the worst in this year’s Expedia Best Tourist Survey: Worldwide, the Japanese, British, Canadians, Germans and Australians are considered the most polite nations; the top three loudest nations are the Americans, Italians and the Spanish; after the Americans and the British, the next biggest tippers are the Germans and the Japanese; Canadians and Swiss were the other nationalities named as least likely to complain.

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