101 East

How To Be A Chinese Tourist (2016x25)

: 29, 2016

From setting fire to curtains inside an aeroplane cabin and hurling scalding noodles over a flight attendant to urinating in public places, Chinese tourists have gained a bad reputation.One in 10 travellers world-wide is from China.Outside of Asia, their destination of choice is France, where their museum visits and shopping for luxury labels account for a sizeable chunk of tourism profits.Despite complaints from locals, officials in Paris want to double the number of Chinese visitors to five million a year.101 East asks what it will take to turn the plane loads of first-time travellers from China into well behaved sightseers.