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After a spate of incidents involving Chinese nationals abroad, Li Jinzao, head of China's National Tourism Administration, was reported to have said that records would be kept of problem tourists, with tourists "ranked" on the severity of their misbehavior. These tourists would receive messages reminding them to behave when they landed at their destination. If they disobeyed, they would be punished.
Li also announced a new tactic to improve tourists' behavior: Public shaming. He encouraged Chinese tourists to take photos or video of bad behavior they spot and pass it on to authorities. The evidence would then be publicized.
Chinese tourists are among the best behaved in my opinion.
I Know you've traveled Asia, so I'm not discounting your opinion, but ask your average Singaporean, Indonesian, Malaysian, HK, or Thai about that. This may have even once been ture, but with the rise of middle class mainlanders, there is whole new more "rough around the edges" class of Chinese traveling primarily in Asia.
I agree with one of the above poster's observation...it's only the Chinese tourist groups who can be annoying. And usually it's mostly just that they're really loud.
German male tourists can be pretty bad too, IMO. Not loud, but kind of demanding and easily grumpy. I understand some German, and I've heard them getting snippy with others several times.
Americans can be pretty bad in the sense of being too loud, overly friendly and chatty, and generally oblivious. They're actually getting better about this, but I still see it when I travel.
The WORST in my opinion ... Japanese tourists. Always with the cameras, stopping abruptly in random places to take random selfies, being obsessed enough to actually have selfie sticks for their camera (I don't know what they're called), crowding others, etc. It's a little creepy to think of how many Japanese selfies that one half of my head is probably in.
Luckily, I usually try to get to more remote parts of the country I'm in, so I don't really encounter many tourists once I'm out the main cities.
Some humans tend to act in ways other humans do not want them to act, "public shaming" won't stop this from happening.
Most people who act the way they act are not even ashamed of themselves and don't really care what others think in the first place so you won't really be publicly shaming them in the first place, they would probably just feel weirded out by someone recording them like they are some kind of celebrity.
And yes i live in a rich community with a small number of Chinese expats and i always see them doing weird **** but i just go about my day since it doesn't really bother me.
I agree with one of the above poster's observation...it's only the Chinese tourist groups who can be annoying. And usually it's mostly just that they're really loud.
German male tourists can be pretty bad too, IMO. Not loud, but kind of demanding and easily grumpy. I understand some German, and I've heard them getting snippy with others several times.
Americans can be pretty bad in the sense of being too loud, overly friendly and chatty, and generally oblivious. They're actually getting better about this, but I still see it when I travel.
The WORST in my opinion ... Japanese tourists. Always with the cameras, stopping abruptly in random places to take random selfies, being obsessed enough to actually have selfie sticks for their camera (I don't know what they're called), crowding others, etc. It's a little creepy to think of how many Japanese selfies that one half of my head is probably in.
Luckily, I usually try to get to more remote parts of the country I'm in, so I don't really encounter many tourists once I'm out the main cities.
Oh the "Beach Towel Brigade" !!!! BUt waht's with the young Brits and "logging"? Keeping more to Asia, Bogan Australians are more of scourge in SEA than any other group, except maybe PRC. Different reasons for the two. They basically treat SEA how their American counterparts treat Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Pcs are "Bogan" SEA tourists and logging. Apparently the logging is being committed by the English counterparts.
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