Chinese tourists with bad behavior to be blacklisted

Shanghai, for one, plans to legislate punitive measures to curb “childish behaviors” by local tourists when they travel outside the country. Local government officials say the city will this year consider blacklisting tourists found to have conducted themselves “shamefully” abroad.

In practice, this means that authorities may deny subsequent applications by offenders who want to join overseas tour groups in the future, the Shanghai Morning Post reported on Feb 12.

The rules proposed by the city — one of the country’s major middle-class bastions — are some of the country’s strictest. They also point to the likely intensification of measures the authorities may adopt to fight the negative image of Chinese tourists that some outbound travelers have helped create as a result of their behavior. (Trebitsch Péter, MTI)