'Rude' Paris issues etiquette guide to 'appease' tourists

Paris has launched a new guide to help them deal with the different types of tourists visiting the city.

The intention of the guide is to encourage the legendarily gruff Parisian hotelier, waiter or taxi driver to be polite to foreign visitors and not to make the assumption that citizens of the different countries enjoy the same things on their holidays, the Independent reported.

The guide says that the British visitors like to get called by their first names.

The guide also said that the Britons want all their activities to be 'playful' or to take the form of games.

'Les Anglais' insist on eating at the absurdly early hour of 6pm to 7pm.

According to the guide, US citizens like to eat at 6pm; they expect to have a Wi-Fi everywhere and call people by their first name within a few seconds.

The Chinese have an obsession with shopping and expect everyone to smile, and Germans like precision, cleanliness and handshakes.

The guide also states that the Italians are impatient, travel in groups and eat late, the Japanese never complain, except when they go home.

The Spanish eat absurdly late at 11pm.