{"id":9354,"date":"2013-05-19T08:54:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T03:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2013-05-19T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T03:54:32","slug":"chinese-tourists-must-be-more-polite-says-communist-party-official-who-claims-they-are-harming-the-countrys-image-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=9354","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tourists must ‘be more polite’ says Communist Party official who claims they are harming the country’s image abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ch1\"<\/a>A senior Communist Party official says that ‘uncivilised behaviour’ by Chinese tourists is harming China’s image abroad.<\/p>\n

Wang Yang, one of the country’s four vice-prime ministers, said holidaymakers should be more polite, singling out talking loudly and spitting as poor behaviour by his fellow citizens.<\/p>\n

It was revealed last month that the Chinese are the world’s biggest spending tourists, splashing out $102billion on foreign trips in 2012, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.<\/p>\n

Chinese tourists make 83million trips abroad last year, compared with only 10million in 2000, becoming the single biggest source of global tourism income.<\/p>\n

Writing in the official party newspaper People’s Daily, Mr Wang said: ‘Improving the civilised quality of the citizens and building a good image of Chinese tourists are the obligations of governments at all levels and relevant agencies and companies.’<\/p>\n

He said Chinese authorities should ‘guide tourists to conscientiously abide by public order and social ethics, respect local religious beliefs and customs, mind their speech and behaviour… and protect the environment’.<\/p>\n

However, some Chinese tourists say they are treated ‘like second-class citizens’ when they are abroad.<\/p>\n

‘Chinese internet forums were flooded with protests earlier this year when news emerged that a hotel in the Maldives had removed kettles from rooms occupied by Chinese tourists,’ said the BBC<\/a>‘s Beiijing correspondent Celia Hatton.<\/p>\n

‘Apparently, the hotel’s manager was upset that some Chinese tourists were using boiling water to eat instant noodles in their rooms, instead of spending money in the hotel’s restaurants.’<\/p>\n

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