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'Rude' French are worst tourists  Eiffel Tower The French are
seen by hoteliers as the world's worst tourists    Japanese
tourists - seen as clean and tidy, polite, quiet and
uncomplaining - came top for the third year running.  French
travellers made amends on elegance - classed third - as well as
for their discretion and cleanliness.  But the French were the
least ready to try a new language, unlike US tourists who were
most likely to swallow their pride and order a pizza, baguette
or a paella in the local lingo.   US tourists also got top marks
for generosity, as the biggest spenders and tippers.  But they
fell short on other counts as the least tidy, the loudest, the
worst complainers and the worst dressed.  Britons came second
for their overall behaviour, politeness, quietness and even
elegance - second for dress sense only to the Italians.  But in
Europe, the British were seen by the hoteliers as the worst
behaved.  Jonathan Cudworth, the he