Interesting article

In travel related news I found out this interesting tidbit from an MSN article about debunking some travel myths. One of them had to do with tourism. You know how Americans have this reputation for being loud and obnoxious tourists? Well, apparently that doesn't necessarily translate to "bad tourist." In the article it says that Expedia had about 1500 hotel managers from around the world take a survey about tourists. The verdict? Among 27 nationalities the US ranked 9th best. The Japanese were ranked first. As for the worst group, well, let's just say it cracked me up: the French.

The rest of the article can be found here: http://guides.travel.msn.com/Guides/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1083446

Another article on MSN is about travel taboos. Some of them are just the typical, already-said-a-thousand-times nuggets (like in Cambodia where it's not a good idea to finish your entire plate because that signals to the host that they didn't give you enough to eat), but some are rather interesting (didn't know Cheshire, England had a thing against people kissing good-bye next to the train when one is about to board the train).

Just for learning something interesting the article can be found here: http://guides.travel.msn.com//Guides/MSNTravelSlideShow.aspx?cp-documentid=980450&imageindex=1

-AALA