Chinkus are worse than desis

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/chinese-tourists-spend-and-offend-freely-420288?pfrom=home-otherstories

The complaints are familiar - they gawk, they shove, they eschew local cuisine, and last year, 83 million mainland Chinese spent $102 billion abroad - overtaking Americans and Germans - making them the world's biggest tourism spenders, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization.

Their numbers have also placed them among the most resented tourists. Mainland Chinese tourists, often laden with cash and unfamiliar with foreign ways, are tumbling out of tour buses with apparently little appetite for hotel breakfast buffets and no concept of lining up.

The frustrations with the new tourists were summed up on a Thai online message board last spring, when users posted complaints about Chinese tourists using outdoor voices inside and spitting in public, among other transgressions. Last year, Thierry Gillier, a French fashion designer who founded the Zadig and Voltaire label, caused a small scandal when he told Women's Wear Daily that Chinese tourists would not be welcome at his new Parisian boutique hotel. A barrage of international criticism persuaded him to apologize.

Like their predecessors, the Chinese are newly wealthy and helpless with foreign languages, a combination complicated by their developing country's historical isolation.

"That China is a lawless, poorly educated society with a lot of money is going to take its toll on the whole world," said Hung Huang, a popular blogger and magazine publisher in Beijing.

Last year, 1,500 Chinese took the company's "Hollywood to Broadway" bus tour, a 20-day cross-country journey intended for mainlanders with stops that included a Las Vegas casino; the bridges of Madison County, Iowa; Niagara Falls; the White House; and the Empire State Building.

If the sights are crowd-pleasers, the overnight stays can sometimes prove challenging. "Smoking in hotel rooms is always a problem," Hentschel said, a habit that can cost tourists hundreds of dollars in hotel cleaning bills. Then there was the episode last summer, he said, when a tour group caused a scene at a hotel in Cody, Wyo., after mistakenly thinking another busload of compatriots had been given preference at breakfast. The police were called to escort them out of town, he said.

More often, Chinese tourists find themselves victims of unscrupulous tour operators. On a weeklong guided tour through Thailand in 2009, Qi Lingfeng, 27, was one of several people in his group who refused to sign up for costly excursions like speedboat rides and concerts. As punishment, he said, the local guide locked them out of their hotel rooms. Other tourists at the same hotel, he said, were forced off their bus for the same transgression.

"It was so crazy, we even thought about calling the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok," he said.

During a group tour of the Siberian city of Vladivostok in January, Chen Xu, 47, a scientist from the coastal city of Xiamen, said the "ethnic Russian dancing" excursion, which cost $80, turned out to be a woman in a bikini twirling around a stripper pole.

Over the summer, we have had busloads of young Chinese high schoolers descending for a tour of the place.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/world/asia/well-off-chinese-students-summer-in-us-seeking-an-edge.html?pagewanted=all

It would be great to start a business catering to Indian students if there aren't any.

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http://www.gadling.com/2013/09/17/chinese-tourists-international-love-hate-relationship/