China Tells Its Tourists: Behave Overseas, Or Else...
https://www.yahoo.com/travel/china-tells-its-tourists-behave-overseas-or-116362029607.html
After years of chiding its tourists to behave better overseas, China is in full “this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things” lecture mode. Now, Beijing is taking another step in making sure its citizens watch themselves when they travel.
China’s tourism agency just announced it’s going to start keeping records of “uncivilized” behavior by its tourists for up to two years. According to Reuters, the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) says badly behaved Chinese tourists have “tarnished” China’s image and caused the nation to “blush with shame.” The tourist offenders, says the agency, need to “learn a lesson.”...
The strict policy change is a response to recent international headlines, which have been full of stories of ill behaved Chinese tourists Clark Griswolding their way through vacation misadventures within China and overseas:...
Also in December, a Chinese woman on an AirAsia flight from Bangkok to China apparently threw a cup of hot noodles on a flight attendant as her travel companion threatened to blow up the plane.
The ugly Chinese?