On a number of travel forums, we read lot of bitter criticism of mass tourism, as if so-called individual tourism is a criterion of quality and authenticity .... 

I also observe on certain forums a regular tendency to virulent, even insulting remarks towards people who ask for information concerning local agencies, car rentals with drivers, because it would be "fashionable" to travel solo with the backpack and local transport. (Mainly on the Routard and Voyage Forum forums, where "haters" create an unhealthy atmosphere, most other sites have mediators who ensure respect for people)

Many individual travelers imagine themselves to be the opposite of mass tourism. And yet .... with new tourism "trend" that wants individual ("road trip" as they say) we are witnessing an irreversible transformation of a number of destinations. This mass of individual tourists "backpackers" ended up to impose its lifestyle even in the remotest corners of the globe. South East Asia pay a high price for this.

Mass tourism is primarily a business strategy for groups, as well as individuals.

It is the T.O. (Tour Operators), hotels, restaurants, paper guides and fashionable magazines that create, generate and process tourism in terms of mass, even when it claims to be individual. Customers do what they can with what they have, or just follow the trends.

I had the chance to practice all forms of tourism: the road with a backpack, organized tour, accompanied tour, individual travel, hitchhiking, train, bus, by car or motorcycle, charter or airliners, with accommodation in guesthouses but also in stations waiting rooms or in nature, charming homestay and luxury hotel.

All forms have their advantages and disadvantages.

Most critics reduce mass tourism to group travel in large groups, with participants who would not know how to live, not adapting, no contact with local people, or scared to get lost in the crowd or enjoy a country in depth.

So much so that many tourism agencies and blogs focus on it: "off the beaten track", "far from mass tourism" etc ... as if it were shameful to travel in groups or by bus. Knowing that today many agencies are doing "off the beaten track" with groups, and that many individuals are grouping "off the beaten track".

1. ★ Many individuals imagine having spent 8 hours in a train or local bus stands, immersion in native life, having eaten a donut or soup on a sidewalk or in a market, or walking in Punjabi or djelaba or harem pants with a fake pashmina shawl thrown over the shoulders or rasta braids is a sign of integration.
   

The reality is that they have spent 8 hours in transports, they ate a donut in a popular tavern, they are disguised as natives. They do not remain less foreign.

I remember in the 70s, thousands of travelers and individual travelers (s) have left indelible traces (not least) in the countries they crossed to get to Kathmandu or Goa.

- I observe that individual tourists sometimes turn certain destinations into drug, alcohol and sex orgies such as in Ibiza (Balearic Islands), Van Vieng in Laos, Kô Samui or Phûket in Thailand, Goa in India, Hikkaduwa or Midigama in Sri Lanka, marking indigenous generations, to the point of forcing certain countries to react in order to preserve their dignity, avoiding or even forbidding this type of tourism, knowing that it will inevitably move to other destinations.

The aficionados of Springbreak, Burningman, and some "exotic" surf spots confirm this tendency to the degeneration of many lonely travelers with a preference for mass activities, with sexual overtones!  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/07/vang-vieng-laos-party-town

1. ★ Is it a coincidence that only Sri Lankan, Indonesian and Indian males are allowed to join these parties? The girls of the country are prohibited in these "trendy" parties ?
   

I see regularly when hiking mountain trails are dotted with indelible traces of solitary walkers, yet very "eco-friendly": various packaging plastic bottles, batteries, and sometimes condoms.

I observed that many individual tourists stop by rivers to photograph with their digital zoom the villagers washing themselves.

1. ★ If it is true that gregarism tends to lower the intellectual level and social behaviors to the level of the lowest average of the group, it is interesting to consider that mass culture seems to have the same effects on individuals as much, whether group or isolated.
   

Groups are mini corporations with interested and interesting people who are looking for, other people who seem unable to adapt to other frames of reference than their own, unless they are allowed to get time, finally others that the world stops at the height of their belly button, their wallet or their genitals.

In a tourist bus of 30 people there is always a sample of different types of personalities.

In the same circuit, there are people who take advantage of their stay, their meetings, their discoveries,  other people are wondering what they came here to do,  and people who criticize what they see, never happy because it is so different from their habits. We find the same samples in individual!

- I observed that many people use "tourism group" because sometimes cheaper (which is less and less true), safer, more convenient (because one does not take care of booking etc ...), while behaving as individual tourists, taking advantage of every opportunity to escape the group and enjoy special contacts, special tours, private discoveries.

I did not find any difference between them and the majority of solo travelers, adventurers, backpackers in modern times.

- I also observed that when 50 or 80 (sometimes hundreds, even thousands) solo travelers traveling with their backpacks in the same city, the same area, the same island, they recreate a form of "mass tourism" ... with the same samples of personalities: the cool, the cultural creative, the moaners, the boring, thepoorly educated, theopportunistic, the dishonest, the conceited etc. ....

More than 1 million individual tourists and backpackers on the small island of Bali in high season produce the same effect and generate the same inconveniences that tourists would make in big buses.

1. ★ With the advent of social networks it is interesting to observe to what extent tourists who call themselves "individual" have the gregarious instinct: they all go where they need to be, transforming the world into "place to be" spots, in gatherings of people who look alike.
   

2. When we hike in the rice fields of Bali, while we are alone in certain places, in the rice fields of Teglalang or Ubud there are today hundreds of individual tourists, all dressed in the same way, all of them taking selfies, because that's where you need to be, according to their sources. And when we have the opportunity to attend a cremation, for which we are required to wear a sarong, out of respect for the deceased and his family there are sometimes dozens of individual tourists in mini shorts, in a bra and tong, because the weather is good.
   

3. 10 years ago (2010), we were alone or only a few to walk the path from Little Adam's Peak to Ella or to visit the Nine Arch Bridge of Demodara in Sri Lanka, today (2017/2019), they are hundreds in leggings, mini shorts and flip flops, because Ella has become a burger / pizza / wifi destination. If you want to take a picture of the train, there is always one who makes the redneck on the steps to make the buzz on the web and get some more followers or likes ..
   

4. Twenty years ago, few of us visited the elephant farms in Chiang Mai, to see them working in the forest, attending veterinary care, ablutions in the river.
   

Today it is a "trendy" destination for hipsters and millennials with cuddles of elephants, participation in the elephant bath, walk in the forest. They are hundreds to soak in water alongside the pachyderms. All filmed in Go Pro and broadcast on facebook, instagram, twitter, snapshat to get "likes".

1. 15 years ago there were only curious or passionate tourists in the ethnic markets of North Vietnam, the small cities which surround them still have a simple and authentic charm. Today, Sapa has become a fair for beer, pizza, red bull and wifi, run by zombies in pancho, KW, mini shorts and flip flops.
   

We find all these "backpacks" in "road trip" in Ubud, Kuta (Indonesia), Ella, Arugam Bay, Midigama in Sri Lanka, Hoi Anh, Nha Trang, Mui Ne in Vietnam, in Pushkar and Goa in India, in Ko Samui, Phuket, Chiang Mai in Thailand. They like to believe that they are doing individual tourism and that they are free to go where they want! How is it that they all end up in the same places at the same time? Free !

1. -I observed that if the "tourists" of groups pass for people who need their coffee-croissant-butter-jam in the morning, many individual "backpacks" cannot do without their hamburger, pizza , fries, Red Bull or beer, and especially the free connection to impress friends (pines), which led many small local restaurants all over Asia to add burgers and pizzas, but also beer, Red Bull and free wi-fi on their menu, creating a mass effect and the cultural smoothing that goes with it! They are everywhere "Like at home".
   

"If this tourist attaches value to his trip, it is not because he is interested in the region he crosses or the places where he is shipped by express as a commodity, it is not for experience he can get from it, but to satisfy his hunger for omnipresence and his taste for the shaky.

In addition, because of speed, he deprives himself of the opportunity to experiment (to the point that speed has become his only and ultimate experience) - without forgetting that with the standardization of the world to which he is book, moreover, it effectively reduces the number of objects worthy of experience and capable of obtaining them, and that already today, wherever it lands, it finds itself at home and therefore nowhere finds material for experience. "By traveling with us", declares the advertisement of an aviation company whose slogan combines provincialism and globalization, "you will feel everywhere at home." Günther Anders - Man's obsolescence - Ed Ivrea- 2002

For those who travel this way, the present is degraded to the rank of simple means to reach the "place to be".

Hence these selfies in front of the "place to be". Self-centered photos that flood social networks, alternating between auto-biographical gallery and bad TV series. The tourist transforming himself into a consumer product, if possible "consumed" by the greatest number, to prove himself that he / she exists or for fear of not being.

The impact of this individual tourism "mass" is virtually the same on local populations than large bus.

- Several thousand individual males or "bachelor parties" in Patpong, Pathaya or Ko Samui do more damage to the local population than conventional tourism. With this macho tendency to treat women as consumer products.

1. -Hundreds of bobo, hipsters, geeks geeks, half-naked and drunk on the beaches of Goa have more impact on the local culture than the thousands of "ordinary" tourists crisscrossing Rajasthan.
   

2. -Several hundred half-dressed or leggins Western girls in Indian, Sri Lankan or Indonesian countryside or cities are doing more damage to the local male population, and female in turn, than conventional tourism.
   

Some villages in Laos, Thailand, on the west coast of India or Sri Lanka are now convinced that we are all consumers of chit or yaba or ecstasy, that we think only get drunk, get party and copulate with anyone.

1. ★ I would like to visit Kuta without being banged on the buttocks by asking me if I want some "ganga".
   

Being a single traveler is not a guarantee of respect for the host countries, nor for the people we meet, let alone the image we give of ourselves. This is not the mark of a quality travel or contact.

The comments made by many backpackers on the forums leave no doubt on ttheir tolerance level, and intelligence level.

So where is the difference ?

- It is true that when a cruise ship docked in Havana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Venice, or Corfu dropping a wave of 3000 people in the streets, it has an impact sometimes economic, but also social in the area landing. Knowing that many cruise passengers are stingy, they just go around town in a hurry, and many prefer to take their meals aboard, because included in the package.

- It is true that some sites, some areas, some villages can not be visited with great bus because they are inaccessible.

- It is true that it is less traumatic for families to see coming two people rather than 50.

- It's true that things do not always go the same way, when in a session of shamanism or an authentic village festival we are 4 instead of 30.

1. -It is true that the home and the contact are different when you are less numerous.
   

2. -But it is also true that sometimes the passage of 2 or 3 individuals in a village, a guesthouse, in a family can rot forever the meeting with foreigners, for lack of knowing how to live, for lack of education, for bullshit.
   

A village of Black Lolos, where individually pass 200 couples per year, as immersion Homestay, will never have the same attitude towards any foreigner, or in respect of life.

I sometimes have to attend extraordinary things with large groups, I observe that it is often based on the quality of people in the group.

I sometimes attended distressing scenes with individual travelers: profanity, dishonesty, lack of respect for tradition, addiction and binge drinking, sexually provocative behavior, theft in some temples, voyeurism ...

Today, it is clear that tourism is killing tourism.

With globalization, the uberisation of accommodation rentals, the influence of social networks, the rise of the middle classes, tourism has taken a vertiginous leap, creating a number of effects that seem to cause long-term damage to the countries visited but also to those who visit them. I am happy to have visited certain regions in the last century.

What is added the effect "goldfish": the new generations of different nationalities, captive by technology and digital media, turn in circles in their jar asphyxiated by instagram, google, facebook, twitter and c °, eyes on their screens, ears clogged by their headphones, the ass magnetized by the seats to release quickly the thumbs of both hands, the brain stuck in standardized values created especially for them  in order to allow algorithms to better target and manipulate them, with this gregarious need to go where everyone goes and to exist only according to a number of followers.

- In Singapore, Nice, Barcelona, in the tram or metro, we must not be more than 3 not to have a headphone on the ears and smartphone in the hands, to get up to give a place to an old or disabled person, to a pregnant woman.

1. -In Hoi Anh, Arugam Bay, Ubud, we should not be more than 4 in the restaurants to be able to eat and talk to us without having eyes permanently attached to a screen.
   

2. -We sometimes have to wait an hour for the 50 young Japanese to finish two by two alternately in front of the volcano, fingers V, to the point of missing the sunrise, or that young Chinese have finished posing in front of the volcano an old house or a temple, the dloigst in V. In the safaris, some go up to take selfies with an elephant, a lion, a whale behind them. On all the sites of the world, we become rare to take pictures only sites or landscapes.
   

3. -Narcissistic iconomania is a very contagious virus.
   

4. -In all the villages of the world we become rare to ask permission to take pictures, to propose to send a copy by post. Because what is important is the relationship we have established with the people we meet and not the image that we will circulate on Twetter, Facebook and other SnapShat, to increase the number of views.
   

This generation displays behaviors that sometimes harm the local population and other tourists:

1. ★ When being "between oneself," some people "said liberated" are stripped on beaches where women bathe usually dressed, creating a lot of entertainment at the male population, giving an image of Westerners who is not very representative.
   

2. ★ Many individual female tourists walk around in mini shorts, leggins and jerseys necklines, because the weather is nice and warm in the tropics, in th

   

   e markets, in the streets, in Africa or Asia, while indigenous women are prudish. (I'm not saying to wear the veil, but just be decent  about manners held over the country visited, especially because the indigenous people are tolerant, and it is rare that they dare to ask cover a little, especially the guys ...)

   

   
   

An European, American, Australian girl in mini-shorts and slip-on tank top among women in sari on Jaisalmer Square, in a Tamil market, in a funeral ceremony in Sulawesi, in the streets, temples and pagodas of Hanoi Or Hoi An, in Indonesian rice fields, in villages in Sri Lanka, western girls wearing leggins (Camel Toe style sometimes without underwear) in the villages of Gujarat, in Udaïpur, on the roads of Bali, in Ella or Arugam Bay, in the events of Beijing Express, not unnoticed, it sometimes creates animation and gives an image of European women, which I do not share, sometimes provoking behaviors of sexual harassment by the male populations on other women.

I am not referring, here, to those who walk half-naked, drunk or drugged, on the beaches of Goa (India), Phuket, Ko Samui (Thailand) in the streets of Ibiza (Spain) or Van Vieng (Laos). I do not consider them either as tourists or as tourists.

1. ★ Tourists in bermudas, shorts, leggins and tank tops in villages and temples seem to forget that they are in living areas and in sacred places where people come to work and pray. This is not because it is sunny and warm that all asian and african cities and villages are holiday resorts.
   

I'm not the only one to say that, The Guide du Routard - Vietnam 2012 p 131 "same advice to most other countries (except Saint Trop 'and Coney Island), no nudity on the beaches, nor in the city.  Avoid shorts too tight (besides the very short shorts) and bare chests. Outfits correct in temples and pagodas (arms and legs covered) and take off the shoes. "

Even in France some municipalities are obliged to remind holidaymakers and tourists to have a decent outfit in the city

https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/les-sables-dolonne-85100/aux-sables-d-olonne-priere-de-sortir-couvert-dans-le-centre-ville-5899510

The advantage of a group is that a guide sometimes remind the rules of knowing how to live, that does not have a number of individuals.

1. ★ Many individual tourists take advantage their small numbers, so more discreet,  to slip into the privacy of the families of the countries visited: by entering the confines of their home, in their property, in their huts, in their temples, on the banks of rivers, with a smile from ear to ear, they take advantage of the surprise and pleasure of welcoming a stranger to trample social basic rules, like taking off their shoes, asking permission to enter, to photograph. 80 times out of 100 the inhabitants agree, but that does not exempt to ask, by correction.
   

2. ★ Better still: thanks to mobile phones, and miniaturized devices, have I seen tourists take pictures by hiding or "on the sly"! As they do at home when something is happening on the street.
   

3. ★ In Japan, in the city of Kyoto, tourist behavior has become so disrespectful that the municipality is obligated to punish, to charge a fine, volunteers are going to try to educate tourists. It's not just groups, but mostly individual travelers. https://hitek.fr/bonasavoir/touristes-kyoto-rendent-vie-geisha-difficile_1099
   

1. ★  In Barcelona, the municipality forbids tourists to gather in a market so they become a nuisance for the inhabitants who make the market.
   

2. ★ In Amsterdam, the municipality forbids the visit of the center and the "red district" to the groups, vigilant to the photos and the inconvenience that this causes, estimating that the "red district" and the women who are there are not a center attraction.
   

3. ★ In many countries, tourists play Santa Claus, distributing sweets, pens, sometimes shampoo and soaps collected in hotels to kids and sometimes to adults in the street, unconsciously turning into beggars.
   

How many times have I railed against these kids who attack me in the street screaming "hello pen", "hello candy", "hello money" ... because of "nice tourists" who came before me!

I'm not saying that we should not give gifts or sweets to the children of families who receive us or who share their meal or a moment with us.

That's the difference between relationship, sharing and distribution. Providing pens or candies to children in a village where we spent the day or night is not the same as handing out pens on the street to children with whom we had no exchange.

1. ★  In Sri Lanka, there are more and more people who complain about backpackers hitting them with their backpacks in buses, on trains, because as in airplanes they are not aware of the place that they take and the embarrassment they cause. They walk alone !
   

2. ★ Some individual travelers play "penniless" to be hosted by locals, claiming they lost their wallet to have a taxi race, a sandwich or ticket for free. Some steal items from the temples to finance their next trip. it is unfortunately not so rare that we believe it.
   

3. ★ In Australia, the behavior of backpackers is such that the country has introduced a special tax to dissuade them from coming, in Bali the government denounces to the embassies the backpackers who have inappropriate behavior. When in the Persian Gulf countries, they made it clear that backpackers are not welcome; here for economic reasons, they do not spend enough money.
   

4. ★Laos has banned backpacker gatherings in Ventian because creating too much trouble in the area. They have moved to other Asian destinations including another in Laos: Van Vieng.
   

5. ★ More and more destinations are annoyed by tourists who do not come to visit, but who are just passing by to take some pictures, to the point of considering creating a special tax for those who spend only one day. In fact they no longer do tourism, they come to feed their gallery for their followers and get likes.
   

6. ★ In many regions of the world, accommodation requires several nights to protect themselves from the inconveniences of ephemeral individual tourism.
   

7. ★ I was surprised by the difference in motivation of travelers who go to Sri Lanka: we went to Sri Lanka to discover a culture, a way of life and a population, monuments, temples, landscapes, with possibly an end of stay by the sea to rest after a long and beautiful trip.
   

Today, new generations go to Sri Lanka to party, snorkel, surf, hike and sunbathe under coconut palms, between two views of their screen. Sometimes they rent a scooter or a bajaj to go for a hike and sometimes visit a temple, or have a fake Ayurvedic massage in a fashionable back room. I find the same attitude in Indonesia and sometimes in Vietnam

1. ★ More strangely, while we have all experienced terrorist attacks in our respective countries, tourists are shunning some of the countries where they have occurred, such as Sri Lanka where the year 2018/2109 was catastrophic for many families who live from tourism, because people are scared; so they do not run more risk there than in Europe ! What would the French say if the tourists did not come any more because of the attack of the Bataclan, Nice or the aggressions of tourists in Paris?
   

I'm not alone in making these observations, The Routard speaks about it over its pages, and more and more websites are reporting these degradations: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/unwanted-tourist-types-overtourism/index.html

1. So, Imagine a group of Chinese come to your house with a smile ear to ear:
   

- they walk in your apartment as if they were at home, touching all your items

- they dive nose over your pans in the kitchen,

- they take pictures of your wife going to wash in the bathroom (we do not washe in the river actually) they take pictures of your children by making them jump in the air or by covering them with kisses, by giving them a china made gadgets

- they take pictures of your grandmother praying before a statue of the Virgin in her room

- they take pictures of your daughter tans topless in the garden

- and finally they ask you to pose with them and your entire family for selfies.

Imagine a month later you find all this on the net, on a blog, facebook, twitter and other flickr ....

That's what a lot of tourists make families living in the countries they visit. Individually or in "mass", today.

No tourist has a monopoly on "know-travel"

It is more the way of being and living that makes the difference, than a form of tourism practiced.

As saying Le guide du Routard in most of his guides: "Remember abroad, the foreigner is you."

Before arriving at destination, there is the obligatory passage of the air travel:

here begins the obligatory journey of mass, since it imposes a regrouping !

CNN has published the list of incivilities (inappropriates behaviors) who create tensions during an airplane trip.

Having some experience in air travel, especially on long flights, I have established my own list. If we share some observations, I add others which seem to me to be obvious.

You may have chosen the best airline in the world, you will never escape the incivility of the passengers.

While the democratization of air travel, particularly long flights, allows more people to discover other horizons, it also brings about the lack of education and incivilities related to the greatest number, individual or in groups.

1 - Occupy several seats in airport waiting lobbies: because some passengers are tired or poorly educated, they lie down on three seats to sleep or relax, because there are many of them, many travelers are condemned to stroll through the aisles of "free tax" shops, or to sit on the floor until boarding. Lack of education, hypertrophied ego.

2 - Do not respect the queues at the check-in counter: many try to free-ride one or more places, to reach the ticket counter faster. Laying their luggage, pushing their trolley, pushing their children in front of the others. They do not care that you've been waiting there for an hour or so. Lack of education, hypertrophied ego.

3- Try to embark before your number is called: Most airlines are setting up a system to board hundreds of passengers in a minimum of time, making calls by zones or rows of seats. All of a sudden the majority of passengers become deaf or illiterate or no longer understand the instructions given in several languages.

Since the majority of employees are polite or do not care, 99 times out of 100, it works. When you arrive at your seat, a bunch of people are already installed in your area and occupy your luggage compartment, which require you to usurp another luggage compartment, further away. Self-centered opportunism.

4 - Try to change places by pretending that the one you occupy is attributed to them, all in a condescending tone, at the aggressive limit, until the hostess intervenes, controls the boarding cards and tells the moaners the place assigned to them. Self-centered opportunism

5 - Abstain from the space reserved for hand luggage: once your jacket, your purse or your photo bag, or your luggage cabin installed in the luggage compartment arrives passengers with a luggage cabin + a coat + shopping bags from free tax (cartridges of cigarettes, bottles of alcohol) + a laptop. They push or pile your things to place theirs, without precaution. When they are in couple or in family it is even worse ... Lack of education, ego hypertrophied.

6 - Passing hold baggage for cabin baggage: either because they are late for boarding (voluntarily or unintentionally), or because they try not to pay a surcharge or because they want disembark and exit the airport faster than the others. The crew do their best to store the bulky baggage.. Self-centered opportunism.

7 - Knocking the other passengers with a backpack: Once seated in your place, it is common for a boarding passenger to hurt your face with his backpack, because he(she) is not aware of the place he(she) takes or because he(she) is poorly educated. In both cases, the ego is hypertrophied. 98% forget to apologize, lack of education.

8 - Forgetting to wash before flying, and incommode the people: either because they are negligent and have no hygiene, or because they have spent several hours in transportation to the airport. (many airports have sinks, and sometimes shower, some genuine bathrooms). Lack of education.

9 - Squat the middle seat while empty. Take advantage of the fact that the center seat is not occupied to lie down or extend his(her) territory by depositing personal belongings. Lack of education, ego hypertrophied.

10 - Occupy both armrests: encroach on the comfort of others who have at least right to one of the armrests. How many passengers read the newspaper, or eat while occupying the space of a seat and a half, even if they put their elbows in the face of the neighbor. We can add the passenger who falls asleep with the head falling on the shoulder of the neighbor, or who snores during the 6 hours of flight. Lack of education, hypertrophied ego.

11- Take off the shoes and walk barefoot on the plane: lack of hygiene for yourself and for others.

12 - Coughing, sneezing and spreading germs everywhere: it is difficult to escape from these infections, either because people do not take care when they have a cold, tracheitis or bronchitis, sometimes a more severe respiratory illness, or because many passengers forget to put their hand or handkerchief in front of their mouth and nose when they cough or sneeze. Each sneeze or coughing flush vaporizes a cloud of thousands of bacteria to at least 6 meters. In a confined space such as an aircraft cabin, this increases the likelihood of contamination. Lack of hygiene and education.

13 - Lowering his seat suddenly without warning: To gain seats and money, the airlines tighten the rows of seats in order to add. This reduces the space available for the legs. A large majority of passengers suddenly lower their seats, the plane having barely taken off, without worrying about the person behind. Lowering slowly allows you to anticipate, and reposition the legs so as not to receive a blow. Absence of education, ego hypertrophied.

14 - Strike the back of the chair in front. Relatively rare in the elderly, frequent in young

people and in children. Since the airplane seats are particularly light, all vibrations are reflected in the back and pelvis of the person sitting in front. It is all the more disagreeable when one is dealing with a passenger whose legs are without rest: legs which vibrate or tremble permanently. Impatience, anxiety, compulsive nervousness.

15 - Smoking in the toilet and triggering the fire alarm. While it is said and repeated in different languages that it is forbidden to smoke in airplanes, some passengers in addiction to tobacco or grass can not help but go to grill one in the wc: putting the safety of passengers in danger when they throw the cigarette butts into the garbage cans, and anyway triggering the fire alarm. Being awakened in flight by the alarm and seeing the on-board personnel running with extinguishers is a real stress. Lack of education, ego hypertrophied. It happened to me 3 times!

16 - Spending hours on the toilet: in airplanes with between 300 and 500 seats, toilets are used almost all the time, except between 1:00 and 4:00 in the morning. Some passengers remain very long in the toilet, to the detriment of the comfort of the other passengers.

After passing the toilets of some people, it is sometimes necessary to make an almost complete cleaning: urine, water, paper on the floor, on the basin and around the washbasin. Lack of education, lack of hygiene.

17 - Try to get off the plane before everyone else. The engines of the plane are hardly stopped as the majority of people get up, hurriedly open the luggage chests to extirpate their belongings without worrying about the others.

They crowd one against the other to get out first, even if they walk on them. This can be understood for those who have a correspondence and that the flight is delayed, but not for the others. Lack of education, hypertrophied ego.

18 - Not having ones papers in order. Although the ground crew checks on boarding that the passengers are in good standing with the country of destination, many passengers have not filled (or not well filled) their landing card,or have not done the visa formalities, or have an expired passport. They block the waiting lines at the immigration counter sometimes for hours. Carefree, lack of education, opportunism (they will have tried).

19 - Go past those waiting in front of the luggage belt. Many people do not take account of passengers arrived before waiting for their luggage in front of the belt. They settle in front of them, sometimes by hitting them with their trolley so that they push and occupy the place. Lack of education, opportunism, hypertrophied ego.

When most of these incivilities are repeated on the same trip, flying can become a real stress for those who still have some education. It is a good experience to assess the rate of assholes  in a group.

Below my ranking of tourists, all tend combined, based on the observation of several thousands of people encountered while traveling during 40 years.

There is no value judgment on nationalities in general. These are observations of people of various nationalities in travel status. 

"You think I do not like tourists! No, you felt, understood, I just hate certain behavior. Especially since I happen to be myself a tourist. So I make sure not to behave like that kind of tourists."   Jacques Salomé - Vivre avec les autres - Editions de l'homme - 2002