Nan Yang
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神威98
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China tourism industry that targets overseas Chinese needs a major overhaul. The first two times I went to China I got a cold exactly after 1 week in. And I was still coughing phlegm three weeks later on the return flight home.
Now, I'm averse to traveling to China thru any kind of tour package you book with a travel agent in North America. It's the group meals that's the main source of infection. Everyone on the shared van to the HSR station or airport after the first week was showing symptoms of being infected.
Most Chinese restaurants in China don't share the same concept of hygiene as the Chinese restaurants in North America. In North America, if you eat as a group, they always provide extra chopsticks and spoons for you to get the food from the shared plate onto your own plate. You never use your own chopsticks nor spoon to get the food onto your own plate. That's just gross.
In China, they expect you to use the same chopsticks that's been in your mouth already covered in your own saliva to get food from the shared plate. They don't have the concept that there should be two kinds of chopsticks and spoons often of different colors or shapes: the personal ones and the shared ones.
After they catch a cold in the first week of their month long stay in China, most overseas Chinese are scared to book any subsequent trips to China that involves group meals together with other overseas Chinese.
In essence, most tour package tourists to China are usually noobs that don't know better. The veterans will simply shun this channel to drive China's tourism industry. This is a problem China needs to address at the national level, if they want repeat business not just from overseas Chinese that on their first time to China.
If you must travel to China. Avoid prebooking tour packages at all costs. Go free style and book your own hotels. Eat only with other family members not forced together with some 10-20 other overseas tourists at the same dining table. When you spend 3/4th of the time in China dealing with a preventable cold instead of enjoying yourself, what is even the point of traveling to China?
China cleaned up her act when she's hosting a major international (sports) events (ie. no dog meat, no gross sounding delicacies). Why can't she do something simple for her tourism industry by mandating all tour packages to book only state-sponsored restaurants that serve individual meals to their clients instead of group meals?
Now, I'm averse to traveling to China thru any kind of tour package you book with a travel agent in North America. It's the group meals that's the main source of infection. Everyone on the shared van to the HSR station or airport after the first week was showing symptoms of being infected.
Most Chinese restaurants in China don't share the same concept of hygiene as the Chinese restaurants in North America. In North America, if you eat as a group, they always provide extra chopsticks and spoons for you to get the food from the shared plate onto your own plate. You never use your own chopsticks nor spoon to get the food onto your own plate. That's just gross.
In China, they expect you to use the same chopsticks that's been in your mouth already covered in your own saliva to get food from the shared plate. They don't have the concept that there should be two kinds of chopsticks and spoons often of different colors or shapes: the personal ones and the shared ones.
After they catch a cold in the first week of their month long stay in China, most overseas Chinese are scared to book any subsequent trips to China that involves group meals together with other overseas Chinese.
In essence, most tour package tourists to China are usually noobs that don't know better. The veterans will simply shun this channel to drive China's tourism industry. This is a problem China needs to address at the national level, if they want repeat business not just from overseas Chinese that on their first time to China.
If you must travel to China. Avoid prebooking tour packages at all costs. Go free style and book your own hotels. Eat only with other family members not forced together with some 10-20 other overseas tourists at the same dining table. When you spend 3/4th of the time in China dealing with a preventable cold instead of enjoying yourself, what is even the point of traveling to China?
China cleaned up her act when she's hosting a major international (sports) events (ie. no dog meat, no gross sounding delicacies). Why can't she do something simple for her tourism industry by mandating all tour packages to book only state-sponsored restaurants that serve individual meals to their clients instead of group meals?
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