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No nose-picking: China chides its 'unruly' tourists
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/02/no-nose-picking-china-c
Chinese tourists should not pick their noses in public, pee in pools or
steal airplane life jackets, China's image-conscious authorities have warned
in a handbook in their latest effort to counter unruly behaviour.
The National Tourism Administration publicised its 64-page Guidebook for
Civilised Tourism -- with illustrations to accompany its list of dos and don
'ts -- on its website ahead of a "Golden Week" public holiday that started
on October 1.
As Chinese tourists increasingly travel abroad, they have developed a
stereotype of "uncivilised behaviour", which Vice Premier Wang Yang said in
May had "damaged the image of the Chinese people".
Several countries, including debt-laden European nations, have eased visa
restrictions to attract increasingly affluent Chinese tourists, but reports
have also emerged of complaints about etiquette.
A mainland Chinese woman who in February had her son relieve himself in a
bottle in a crowded Hong Kong restaurant sparked an outpouring of anger
online, with some locals deriding mainlanders as "locusts".
The government has previously issued pithy guidelines telling tourists how
to behave, but the latest booklet elaborated in great detail.
It warned travellers not to pick their noses in public, to keep their nose-
hair neatly trimmed and, if they had to pick their teeth, never to use their
fingers.
It also urged them not to occupy public toilets for long periods of time or
leave footprints on the toilet seat. Nor should they pee in swimming pools.
Travellers should not drink soup straight from the bowl or make slurping
sounds when eating noodles, it warned.
And after taking a flight they must leave the life jackets underneath their
seats, the rulebook said, explaining that "if a dangerous situation arises
then someone else will not have a life jacket".
A tour guide surnamed Zhang who was in Hong Kong on Tuesday said his company
had given him a copy of the rules at the start of the seven-day October
holiday.
Before this he said they had distributed a much briefer set of guidelines --
which fit on a single sheet of paper.
"I feel things need to be improved," he said, standing in the city square
packed with mainland tourists. "If we bring chaos to other places, it's our
image -- the Chinese image -- that suffers."
The handbook also dispensed country-specific advice: Chinese visitors to
Germany should only snap their fingers to beckon dogs, not humans.
Women in Spain should always wear earrings in public -- or else be
considered effectively naked.
And diners in Japan were instructed not to play with their clothes or hair
during a meal.
A 33-year-old tourist, also surnamed Zhang, visiting Hong Kong from central
Anhui province complained that the guidelines were too many and too specific.
"You cannot possibly look through all of the rules before you go travelling.
Also the rules are different in different places," he said. "I think it's
not very feasible." | c*****r
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