It appears holidaymakers have been messing with Texas, as a Dallas suburb has been named the top ‘tourist-hating city’ in the US.

The city of Arlington emerged as an unusual titleholder in a study that analysed more than 37,000 geotagged tweets that included the words ‘tourist’ and ‘tourists’.

It beat New York, Las Vegas, Boston and New Orleans, which rounded out the top five for mean tweets on a per capita basis.

Arlington, Texas emerged as an unusual titleholder in a study that analysed more than 37,000 tweets

Despite the findings tourists probably won’t face any hostility in Arlington, which draws about 10 million visitors every year to attractions such as the original Six Flags amusement park, Dallas Cowboys football games and the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame.

Decima Cooper, a spokeswoman for the Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau, told MailOnline Travel tourists shouldn't buy into the study.

She said: 'From our point of view a study of 30 tweets can’t really be classified as a "scientific" study. From all we have seen, the Twitter bar was set pretty low for the "study".

'That being said, we did find the study very humorous and got a kick out of it. We didn’t take it seriously.'

According to the study commissioned by Stratos Jet Charters, which analysed at least 30 tweets for each city, Chicago loves tourists the most, followed by Atlanta, Philadelphia, Miami and Portland.

The study looked at positive and negative tourist-related tweets from each state, and rated them based on a ‘sentiment analysis’ algorithm.

The state with the most hate for tourists was another surprising result, with Delaware eclipsing Wyoming, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Georgia, the study found.

New York, Florida and California, all hotspots for foreign tourists, were among the least welcoming states

The study looked at positive and negative tourist-related tweets, and rated them based on an algorithm

New York, Florida and California – the three most popular states for international tourists – all landed in the top 10 of the least welcoming states.

With Twitter being a popular outlet for locals to complain about tourists, the most vulgar tweets were found in Washington, DC, Nevada and New York, according to the study.