Shame about the shell suits
NEW YORK – If you believe the polls, Americans are generous and good sports about trying foreign cuisine but they receive poor marks when it comes to fashion sense and hotel room cleanliness.
However, the poll of European hotel managers conducted by Expedia.de ranked Americans as second only to the Japanese in a study to find the world’s “best tourists.”
Hotel managers praised Americans as being great tippers, willing to try local cuisine, willing to speak the language and generous travellers overall.
The same survey ranked Americans at the bottom in terms of fashion sense, finding shell suits (sweat suits) and white socks with sandals to be inappropriate fashion choices.
Americans were also considered loud, but slightly less so than the Italians.
According to a separate Expedia.com poll, nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of U.S. adults think that American tourists travelling abroad are perceived more negatively than they were five years ago.
The same poll found Americans believe that Europeans perceive them as spoiled, self-centred and loud when travelling abroad.
Ian Jarrett
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