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Chinese authorities have issued tourists with a handbook telling them how to behave when going abroad, including not to pee in pools.
As tourists from China increasingly travel abroad, they have developed a stereotype of "uncivilised behaviour", which Vice Premier Wang Yang said in May "damaged the image of the Chinese people".
The image-conscious National Tourism Administration has now published the 64-page Guidebook for Civilised Tourism, including illustrations, aimed at reining in unruly behaviour.
Instructions include do not pick your nose in public, leave footprints on public toilet seats or steal life jackets.
The rulebook explains that if tourists take the safety device from under their plane seat "if a dangerous situation arises then someone else will not have a life jacket".
Read more here.
Even though this is for mainland China travelers only, I think us Taiwanese people should also be taught of Western etiquettes. I do admit I pick my nose in the public, as it's a habit I pick up when I was in preschool in Starkville, Mississippi.
As tourists from China increasingly travel abroad, they have developed a stereotype of "uncivilised behaviour", which Vice Premier Wang Yang said in May "damaged the image of the Chinese people".
The image-conscious National Tourism Administration has now published the 64-page Guidebook for Civilised Tourism, including illustrations, aimed at reining in unruly behaviour.
Instructions include do not pick your nose in public, leave footprints on public toilet seats or steal life jackets.
The rulebook explains that if tourists take the safety device from under their plane seat "if a dangerous situation arises then someone else will not have a life jacket".
Read more here.
Even though this is for mainland China travelers only, I think us Taiwanese people should also be taught of Western etiquettes. I do admit I pick my nose in the public, as it's a habit I pick up when I was in preschool in Starkville, Mississippi.
