Australians in top six 'best tourists'

Australian tourists may be generous and polite but their dress and reluctance to eat local food lets them down, according to international hoteliers. That's why Australians are ranked only number six by hoteliers asked who they think are the world's best tourists, and who put the Japanese at number one. More than 4,000 hoteliers were questioned in the inaugural Best Tourist Survey by online travel company Expedia. Advertisement: Story continues below Among the topics probed were tourists' behaviour, manners, generosity, willingness to learn the language and try local cuisine and their propensity to complain. Japanese tourists took out the top overall place, followed by the British and Germans in joint second place, and the Canadians in third position. Australians were ranked in joint sixth place with Swedes, and were singled out for their generosity and politeness, coming in at fourth place in both categories. But they were in the lower ranks for dress standards and effort to eat local cuisine. The French, Indians and Chinese were considered the worst tourists among the 31 nationalities, while Americans were considered the least polite. Expedia.au managing director Rosetta Stone Language Arthur Hoffman said Australians had to dress better and make an effort to try more local cuisine in order to rank better in next year's survey. The key was the outward simplicity. "The key invention is the URL (website address), it's the thing you can write on a napkin," said Groff. The first server outside Europe, at the SLAC particle accelerator in California, was connected at the end of 1991. BernersLee later pursued development in the United States and CERN released the software for free in the public domain in 1993. "Back then there were 26 web servers, now there are 10 to the power 11 pages. That's as many as the neurones in your brain," said the BernersLee, now 53, who heads the World wide Web Consortium (3WC). "The difference is that your neurones are going down and the web is growing." Twenty percent of humanity is connected to the web, according to standardsetting authorities. It is used worldwide for personal communications, entertainment, knowledge, education, commerce, shopping and science, in the office, home and increasingly on the move. Twenty years on six generations in the computer world it incorporates more than 30 software standards, as well as audio and video, and even live transmissions. "The web is not all done. It?s just the tip of the iceberg," said Berners Lee.

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