Ill-behaved Chinese tourists are exceptions

More Chinese tourists are expected to travel abroad during the National Day golden week holiday. This is good news, except that the media have been reporting one incident after another of the uncivil behaviors of some Chinese tourists overseas. Some media outlets have even termed their behaviors, such as jumping queues, talking aloud and spitting in public, as rude.

Indeed, ill-behaved tourists should be condemned, and urged to behave properly, especially while traveling abroad. But it is unfair to condemn Chinese tourists as a whole for the bad behaviors of just a few.

In the first half of 2015, Chinese people paid 127 million visits overseas, and only a small percentage of them were guilty of uncivil behaviors. Not all Chinese people traveling overseas can be accused of uncivil behavior. Most of them respect and follow local customs and etiquettes, and are well behaved.