中國游客海外不文明行為遭警告

中國日報網 2013-05-28 09:30

Chinese tourists outside Buckingham Palace. Their deputy prime minister has warned them about bad behaviour overseas

While tour operators and department stores from New York to Paris court Chinese visitors to boost their coffers, one of the country's top leaders has warned that ill-behaved tourists are damaging the national image.

Wang Yang, one of China's four deputy prime ministers, said that while other countries had welcomed Chinese tourism, the quality of some travellers was not high.

He said: "They speak loudly in public, carve characters on tourist attractions, cross the road when the traffic lights are still red, spit anywhere and [carry out] some other uncivilised behaviour. It damages the image of the Chinese people and has a very bad impact."

Wang told a government meeting that officials should guide tourists "to consciously obey social and public order and social morality, respect the local religions and customs, pay attention to their words and behaviour in the public, especially in the international environment, protect tourism resources and protect the environment", Xinhua, the state news agency, reported. Wang said tourists should be ambassadors for China's image.

Wang's complaint about graffiti may have been inspired by a domestic incident: there was anger recently when a vandal carved "Liang Qiqi was here" into a relic at Beijing's Forbidden City.

Chinese people made 70m overseas trips in 2011, according to the World Tourism Organisation, which predicted the annual total would rise to 100m by the end of the decade. That figure included trips to Hong Kong and Macau, run under the "one country, two systems" framework.

Though on average they spend less than their western counterparts, their sheer number means that China has become the highest-spending nation for outbound tourism. Its tourists spent $102bn (￡67bn) overseas last year, compared with the $84bn that German and US tourists spent, according to the UN World Tourism Organisation.

Chinese tourists have raised concerns about the behaviour of their hosts, too – including a lack of language skills and poor planning in South Korea to bullying guides in Hong Kong, the lack of hot water inItalian hotel rooms and the UK's "unfriendly" visa system. Britain promised this week that it would try to simplify visa applications.

According to Visit Britain, the UK has seen a 39% rise in visits from China over the past five years. It welcomed 150,000 Chinese visitors last year, who between them spent ￡240m.

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從紐約到巴黎，各旅行社和百貨公司為了提高營業額，都在討好中國游客。但中國國務院副總理汪洋日前警告說，中國游客在海外的不文明行為有損國家形象。

汪洋表示，雖然其他國家歡迎中國旅行團，但其中有些游客素質并不高。

他說：“他們在公共場合大聲喧嘩，旅游景區亂刻字，過馬路時闖紅燈，隨地吐痰等不文明行為，有損國人形象，影響惡劣。”

在一次政府會議上，汪洋指出，各級官員應引導旅游者“自覺遵守社會公共秩序和社會公德，尊重當地宗教信仰和風俗習慣，注意公眾場合特別是涉外場合的言談舉止，愛護旅游資源，保護生態環境，”中國新華社報道說。汪洋認為中國游客應成為中國形象的展示者。

汪洋指責游客亂寫亂畫應是源于中國景區發生的一件事：近日，有游客在北京故宮一口清代大缸上刻了“梁齊齊到此一游”的字樣，這一文物破壞行為引起了社會極大反響。

據世界旅游組織稱，2011年中國游客出境旅游達7000萬人次，這十年末年度總數有望增加到1億。這一數字包括在“一國兩制”的架構下，到香港和澳門旅游的人次。

雖然中國游客人均消費不及西方游客，但其絕對數量很大，意味著中國已成為出境游消費最高的國家。據聯合國世界旅游組織稱，去年，中國游客在海外消費達1020億美元（670億英鎊），而德國和美國游客總共消費為840億美元。

但同時，東道主的行為也引起了中國游客的關注，包括缺乏語言溝通能力，韓國旅游規劃不周全，香港導游欺負游客，意大利酒店房間沒熱水，以及英國“不友好”的簽證制度等。本周，英國承諾會簡化簽證申請程序。

據英國旅游部門稱，五年來中國到英國游客人次增長39%，去年總數達15萬，共消費2.4億。