>>1384558The explaination is much simplier.
Tourism as such is almost a complete novelity in China. Not just in sense of "now", but ever. And for past couple of years they've created a quasi- and real middle class that eagerly spends all that cash they have, but since they are literally first Chinese to ever take part in tourism in any form, they behave like bunch of crude, insensitive morons on every fucking step. It's not helping vast majority of them is taking part in "mass tourism", which means a group of 30-50 people doing an express trip through bunch of "important" places. Add to that just Chinese being Chinese (loud, zero understanding of queque lines, walking without looking at others) and here we are.
I miss times when my contact with Chinese ended at the bar owner in the joint two streets away. Then I finished Sinology, spend there two years on job contract, then another three in a joint company doing business almost exclusively with Chinese and ultimately ended up helping my friend set up a guide agency for "Oriental" foreigners, so now I'm stuck with Chinese tourists on bi-weekly basis, when I have to supervise guides for them.
