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April 12, 2015
Beijing (AFP) - China will create a "blacklist" of its tourists who behave badly overseas, state-media reported, after several embarrassing incidents involving Chinese travelling abroad.
China to 'blacklist' its unruly tourists: report |
Beijing (AFP) - China will create a "blacklist" of its tourists who behave badly overseas, state-media reported, after several embarrassing incidents involving Chinese travelling abroad.
The
country's National Tourism Administration (NTA) will keep a database of
travellers who commit offences, with their names passed onto police, customs
officials and even banks, the official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday.
Offences
that could earn obnoxious tourists a place on the blacklist include
"acting antisocially on public transport, damaging private or public
property, disrespecting local customs, sabotaging historical exhibits or
engaging in gambling or pornographic activities," Xinhua said.
People will
be blacklisted for two years after they offend, it added.
China's
economy has boomed over the past decade, expanding the ranks of its
middle-class who are hungry for foreign travel after the country's decades of
isolation in the last century.
Chinese
travellers took 100 million "outbound" trips -- including to Hong
Kong, Macau and Taiwan -- last year, according to official figures.
But the
surge of wanderlust has left some officials back home red-faced and the
blacklist is the latest of China's efforts to control its citizens behaviour
abroad.
Chinese
tourists were reported to have outraged locals in Thailand this year by drying
underwear in an airport, defecating in public and kicking a bell at a temple.
Several air
rage incidents -- including Chinese passengers opening emergency exit doors and
throwing boiling noodles at cabin crew -- have also been reported in the last
year.
In 2013, a
Chinese sparked online outrage after he wrote his name on an ancient carving in
Egypt.
The NTA
said in a 64-page "Guidebook for Civilised Tourism", issued in 2013,
that tourists should not pick their noses in public, pee in pools or steal
airplane life jackets.
Chinese
travellers spent $102 billion overseas in 2012, making them the world's biggest
spenders ahead of German and US tourists, according to the UN World Tourism
Organization.
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