Are French tourists the most obnoxious?

Does Time Magazine disparage French tourists because they hate them or are they simply voicing what nearly everyone else already knows: French tourists are the most obnoxious.

It may be because the French are simply mirroring the haughty attitude of their former president Jacques Chirac (pictured) who is said to be the only man in Europe to need suntan lotion on the underside of his nose.

At the first link below, Time Magazine wastes no time going after the French:

Given their nation's long reign as the world's most visited country, you'd expect the French to know a thing or two about insufferable tourists.

It turns out they do — and are proving it to the rest of the world.

In a poll carried out by online travel site Expedia and released on Thursday, July 9, French tourists were viewed as the orneriest for the third year running.

Then Time Magazine really pours it on with this:

Affirmation-starved France usually loves global titles of any kind (one big reason French competitors tend to outnumber foreign rivals in quixotic contests like reverse round-the-world solo yachting races and France's annual international plumb-spitting tournaments).

Reverse round-the-world solo yachting races indeed.

Link here and here.