China’s Misbehaving Tourists: How to Solve the Problem?
As the Chinese National Holiday is coming upon, China, one of the world’s biggest tourism markets, is again ready to contribute a huge number of travelers to the global tourism market. For the famous resorts all over the world, the number would probably mean economic benefits. Whereas China, ironically, is facing pressure about the potential problems just because of the large number of the oversea travelers. Last week, The Chinese embassy in Canada published a traveling notice to all travelers heading for Canada. The notice asks that tourists act well-behaved in public and be aware of their security as well as cultural differences.The notice again sparked off the tension about the antics of Chinese tourists traveling abroad. Indeed, the news has documented the inappropriate behaviour of some Chinese tourists including their clashes between Chinese travelers and the locals of their holiday destination. So what is behind this issue ? Huang Xihua told the Procuratorial Daily, the president of the Tourist Administration of Huizhou, the lack of the travel-related cultural tradition is a possible cause. Travelling as an entertainment way is just becoming an essential part for more and more Chinese families nowadays. Unlike the citizens of most developed countries, who are accustomed to traveling abroad, many Chinese people may not have similar intercultural competence and the sensibility of cultural differences. […]
Sep 30, 2015