Which Country’s Tourists are the Worst in the World?
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.10.06 | 6:46 AM ET
Rolf Potts touches on the perennial hostel-lounge argument topic in his latest Traveling Light column on Yahoo! His opinion: The country a traveler hails from isn’t the problem. “The problem here is that assessing your travel companions by nationality is rarely an earnest inquiry so much as it is a dull parlor game—an empty exercise in rhetorical one-upmanship,” he writes. “The worst travelers in the world are, after all, the rude, small-minded ones—and rude, small-minded travelers can hail from any nation.”