Video nasty: angry Chinese tourist shown threatening to kill tour guide during bus seating row
A video has been widely shared on Chinese social media showing two badly behaved mainland travellers shouting abuse at a tour guide after they allegedly became unhappy with their seats on a bus, mainland media reports
In the latest case involving poorly behaved mainland tourists both at home and abroad, a man featured in the three-minute video, first distributed on Wednesday, is heard threatening to kill the tour guide, the Shanghai based news website Thepaper.cn reported.
“I tell you this I have loads of money,” shouted the man while travelling on the bus in the city of Sanya, in Hainan province. “Go and find out what I do.”
The woman beside him later shouts to the guide that her younger son is a journalist and her older son works at the provincial public security bureau, and they could make him lose his job.
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The couple can be heard scolding and swearing at the tour guide using the Putonghua accent from northeastern China,
Another tour guide, from Sanya, told the website that the incident captured on the video occurred on Wednesday morning and followed a dispute when the man and woman were unable to take the seats they had used the day before.
Local tourism authorities said they had seen the video, but have not received any complaints from travel agencies or the tour guide. They said they planned to investigate the matter further.
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He urged Chinese people to obey social norms and to protect the environment when they were on vacation overseas.
Last year mainland’s tourism agency vowed it would keep records of “uncivilised” behaviour by its tourists for up to two years to combat a spate of incidents abroad in recent years, which it said reflected badly on the country’s image.
The actions of badly-behaved tourists have caused many people to blush with shame and people who behaved badly overseas needed to learn a lesson, it added.
Examples of bad behaviour includes violating local customs, destroying public infrastructure and historic sites, causing disturbances on public transport and participating in gambling and prostitution, the agency said.
“China’s image has already been tarnished,” the China National Tourism Administration said on its website.
Regulators said they would hunt out bad behaviour through tips from local tourism bureaus, media reports and from the general public.
