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CHINESE tourists should not pick their noses in public, pee in pools or steal aeroplane life jackets, China’s image-conscious authorities have warned in a handbook in their latest effort to counter unruly behaviour.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
The government has previously issued pithy guidelines telling tourists how to behave, but the latest booklet elaborated in great detail.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Travellers should not drink soup straight from the bowl or make slurping sounds when eating noodles, it warned.<\/p>\n
And after taking a flight they must leave the life jackets underneath their seats, the rule book said, explaining that “if a dangerous situation arises then someone else will not have a life jacket”.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Before this he said they had distributed a much briefer set of guidelines – which fit on a single sheet of paper.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Women in Spain should always wear earrings in public – or else be considered effectively naked.<\/p>\n
And diners in Japan were instructed not to play with their clothes or hair during a meal.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
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