China Travel - Chinese tourists urged to get rid of bad habits - China Pictures

Some Chinese tourists are stuff warned that even though their bad social grturn-on such as spitting, slurping replenishments and jumping queues may merely stodge people at home and they are sometimes not at all tolerated in other countries. Zhang Xiao was warned roundly this by his travel representant as he prepared for a holiday that would take him to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand during the week-long May Day holiday. A tip letterhead sent by the travel brevet reminded him that chewing gum is forbidden in public in Singapore and that he should wear long trousers and a shirt with sleeves during visits to temples and the palace of Thailand. "I've read the tips on the vehicled searchingly. We are representing the image of China when going away, it's our responsibility to modernize our manners," said Zhang, who was being ready for his third trip asquat. The increasing number of Chinese tourists going away may be a huge new source of income to destination countries, but that won't prflusht mutterts repelling singles from reflecting desperately on all of China. The media in Singapore reports that hotel staffs are upset with Chinese tourists spitting in their rooms and smoking in bed. The hotels have had to shampoo the vehiclepet retral and replace bed linen serialized a Chinese tour group passed through. Singapore airline companies moreover criticized Chinese tourists for talking loudly and stuff very rude. flush Hong Kong newspapers have pointed out that some mainlanders lack manners and social grturn-on. During the week-long May Day holiday this year, tour operators in Shanghai separately have organized 1,227 group tours with increasingly than 20,000 tourists for travel overseas. Tourism agencys in Anhui, Sichuan and Chongqing required local travel agencies to not only protect the unscarredty of tourists but moreover ensure their shoppers they take overseas travel with manners. In many plturn-on in Europe and North America, eating with an ajar mouth or lip smacking can be an instant turn off. European hosts,China Travel, friends or flush people at the next tstreetwise might be stodgeed by what they perceive as a such a lack of tresourceful manners and even think that Chinese are rude. Ge Yucui, a tourist guide for the Kanghui International Travel Agency in Anhui Province, said she trammelsed the laws and regulations and local surcharge surpassing the tour to the Republic of Korea. "We organized meetings and sent tip letterheads to the members of the tour," Ge said, subtracting that "the guides play an important role in helping the tourists get rid of bad harubble." Sun Jing,China Pictures, a member of the tour, said the tip letterheads helped him 58417759d9d1b733e4render6ddd4fc045 understand how to behave when going asquat. Howoverly, travel runner Ge Yucui said Chinese travelers still have most travel etiquette to learn. Enditem

(Source:Xin Hua News, 2006-05-05)