Found this article online. Thankfully NZ didn’t make the list…
1-Russians
2-Koreans
any other list is BS
this is list is crap… yes Americans always where sweat pants oversees and Aussies only shorts and running around barefoot. .but the rest is BS. Russians only do all inclusive holidays in Turkey or Egypt…I’ve never really seen Indians travel!? Chinese though are bloody annoying but that’s because we are in Taiwan have to think that way…probably…
When Chinese and Americans are in Italy, you get a perfect storm of irritatingness.
Spent a fair amount of time in the tourist centres of Oxford and Venice, and there’s really no such thing as a good tourist, especially in your local coffeeshop queue.
Poor pisshead stag/hen Brits are horrorshow tourists, but to be fair, they are scumbags on home turf as well. :aiyo:
Yeah, there was this vacation war where the Sun always named the Germans as the worst and the German BILD counterpart named the British as the worst. I think the Germans were quite infamous for drinking excesses on the beach, wearing white tennis socks in sandals, short pants in churches and complaining you couldn’t get a decent Schnitzel where ever they are. Also, they seem to be very serious about relaxation. So serious they get really agitated when the pre-planned vacation does not meet their high standards.
Note how I avoid saying “we” 
Personally I am working on a new low by going into the Longtan temple in Lederhosen and waving a crucifix towards the dragon altar. They’ve got some on Ebay for 3.99.
The Brits are exactly the same, but substitute ‘a nice cup of tea’ for schnitzel. The enmity comes from being case of too much similarity, I think. 
Russians spread all over Thailand like the plague.
They are well-behaved in China. Or maybe it doesn’t show with the local competition.
I’m surprised Israelis aren’t listed. They have a reputation for being bad tourists, at least among the backpacker set.
I don’t think I’ve travelled enough to really have an opinion on it. I used to find people who came to nz and spoke zero English really annoying.
But then I MOVED (not just visited) to Taiwan speaking minimal Chinese…
This. When I was backpacking in the late 90s, everyone had horror stories of Israeli backpackers fresh out of their military service.
I think the only ones I had recurrent bad experiences with, in Indochina, were French. Some really bad ones. But the Frogs I actually knew and stayed with in London were polite, smart, and gracious.
All the American tourists I’ve met have been great and friendly (despite having, in NZ, where I’m from, quite a different reputation).
Yeah, the Israeli kids in Thailand. But then, any large groups of 22(?) year olds aren’t going to be pleasant…
That’s why I do my best to make Taiwan seem a place you will only enjoy as you get older: temples, birding, ferns, opera, museums, HERITAGE towns. No beaches but really lovely traditional Fujian villages with dwellings ranging from simple pingfang to full on sanheyuan. 
Sneaky!
Just the fact that Israel isn’t on that list is proof positive it’s a ridiculous list. Israelis are notorious in India where the often come after serving their required military duties. There they tend to hang out with their buddies for more opportunities to yell at dark skinned people. Some Indian hotels actually ban Israelis.
Russians have already been mentioned. Whenever I stay at my favorite hotel in Thailand there always seems to be a steady stream of pasty white Russians invading the beach front space in front of our hotel. Rather than stay at their own poverty accommodations, they will come try and use facilities (beach gear, lounge chairs, tables, etc.) from our more expensive hotel.
I’ve seen enough bad behavior from other nationalities to realize the ‘ugly american’ is a tired old stereotype that doesn’t hold water. They are often annoyingly self-conscious of the label and will go to great lengths to avoid being identified as Americans, wearing Canadian maple leafs to throw of the scent. Australians tend to be just as self-conscious.
The only nationality I’ve ever seen pick up the trash on the beach in Thailand have been Americans, and so damn few of them that I’d hardly call it a trend. So many beaches have issues with trash. People will talk about how dirty a particular beach is but they’ll walk around, step over, or just plain ignore trash rather than taking a half second to pick it up and have a positive impact.
To be fair though, picking up beach trash won’t do much…why? Because most of it comes from the ocean and comes in massive quantities. Go to Bali in February, the beaches are wall to wall trash with more coming in on every wave, and we can thank the Javanese, not the careless tourists for that.
Israeli backpackers are an odd lot. Get them in a group and you want to stay far away. But get them in ones and twos and they are fantastic people.
Sometimes it’s situational - Australians in Bali for example have a deservedly terrible reputation but head over to Sumatra and Aussies there are like a completely different species to their countrymen in Bali.
My guess depends who you ask. If you ask Mexicans this question they’ll say Americans, ask Spaniards they’ll say English, Indonesians - Aussies, etc. etc. Personally I find Koreans the most annoying but probably because I primarily work in N. Asia.
Agreed. I think the Brits are potentially the absolute worst tourists. If nothing else they offer mindless, drunken violence. However, that obviously won’t apply to Brits in Provence, the Dordogne, Tuscany - places like that. They may well be irritating in many different ways, but they won’t glass you .
The “bad American tourist” is a myth, IMO. Perhaps they were like that some time in the past but now they generally aren’t loud and obnoxious. I’d have no worries sitting in a bar frequented by Americans. A bunch of Brits I didn’t know? :no-no:
This is great! “This past week a 15-year-old teenage boy who etched “Ding Jinhao was here” into the side of Egypt’s Luxor Temple…”
Wow. Just wow. 