The world is a huge Chinatown.
During the May Day period, people who traveled abroad found that no matter where they go, it is always easy to find traces of China.
Japan, which Chinese tourists love to go to, has recently been crowded with Chinese due to the continuous depreciation of the yen. #Japanese LV stores are all Chinese#的话题, and they have also been on the hot search.
Looking away from Asia, Chinese tourists are still ubiquitous.
A public toilet in Egypt that is inaccessible prominently says "men and women" in Chinese.
Even the Antarctic tour, which spends at least 50,000 yuan per capita, is mainly driven by Chinese tourists. Data shows that last year's Antarctic tourism season, the total number of tourists was about 100,000, and Chinese tourists accounted for 15,000.
The China Tourism Academy previously predicted that the number of Chinese outbound tourists will reach 130 million in 2024, 84% of the number in 2019. In 2019, about 155 million Chinese tourists left the country and spent $253 billion abroad.
However, while the outbound travel market has revived, some people's outbound travel has also become disillusioned.
"The streets of Paris are full of poop", "There are only two kinds of people in Italy, the stolen and the soon-to-be-stolen", "The smell of urine in Times Square in New York", "In Egypt, I only allow myself to be cheated three times a day"......
All kinds of unexpected exotic customs make some Chinese tourists feel homesick in advance.
The travel experience of outbound travel, why not advance but retreat?
The readers, the "poems and distances" in the forest, are revealed in their original form
Compared with domestic travel, outbound travel seems to be more desirable.
Not only because of the more different scenery and people, but also because, according to some magazines, some overseas countries are like paradise. For example, flies in Australia collect honey, in Japan dishes are washed seven times and water in the toilet bowl is drinkable, Europeans are highly qualified, they do not cut in line, do not run red lights, and do not forget to read books on the subway; and Americans become independent at the age of 18.
To this day, Chinese tourists still yearn for these places.
According to data from Ctrip, countries such as Japan, South Korea, the United States, and France are also popular destinations for Chinese tourists to travel abroad.
However, when I actually arrived in a foreign country, the experience was mixed.
The scenery, history and culture of other countries naturally have their own wonders, but I didn't expect that the most basic consumption experience, city appearance, and public security management in the tourism process are also "wonderful".
In Paris, for example, many visitors have a problem: going to the toilet.
On the one hand, there are very few public toilets, and on the other hand, public toilets also charge a fee, up to 2 euros at a time.
If tourists want to save money, they can either exercise their bladder and challenge the limit of holding urine, or they can follow the local customs and defecate in the open. A short video blogger called "Big Brother's Cousin" even said that Paris is full of homeless people and chewing gum, and the smell of poop makes people want to vomit. It's even more uncomfortable on rainy days, the rain washes away the excrement, and I don't know if it's rain or feces to step on.
Just last month, the Paris Olympic Committee said that because of the E. coli bacteria in the Seine, the "triathlon" of the Olympics may be canceled from swimming and replaced with a "running-cycling-running" event.
Outdoors, some people play the violin and some people play poop, and this kind of inclusiveness is not unique to Paris.
In March this year, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge held their annual rowing competition. Traditionally, the winner is thrown into the River Thames to celebrate, but this year's winner, the University of Cambridge, rejected the tradition because of the high level of water pollution.
People from Oxford University understand: "If only there weren't so many poops in the water." ”
Of course, these places are not without free toilets, but they have grown like this, and they are played out in the street.
Those who can't follow the customs of the countryside have no choice but to break the fortune and save their respect.
Even worse than going to the toilet is another thing: preventing thieves.
A British travel insurance website has compared pickpocketing data from 10 European countries. The data shows that Italy has the highest pickpocketing index, followed by France. Moreover, the probability of pickpocketing is highest in attractions: for every million tourists who visit attractions in Italy, 463 are stolen, compared to 283 in France.
It just so happens that they are two of the most visited European countries by Chinese tourists.
In 2019, Italy received 5.35 million Chinese tourists, compared to 2.2 million in France.
As a result, there is an endless stream of complaints about Italian thieves on the Internet.
Last year, as soon as Gao Yousi of the "Crooked Nut Research Association" landed in Milan, Italy, the Moutai liquor he had brought all the way was stolen, making him give up his original shooting plan. At that time, fans also suggested that he change his shooting plan to see which country in Europe was stolen the fastest, and it would definitely explode.
French thieves have also been greeted by Chinese tourists countless times for 18 generations, so much so that there is now a saying: If you don't lose anything when you go to Paris, it only proves that you haven't stayed long enough.
In addition, there are many places that will bring Chinese tourists back to reality from "poetry and distance" again and again.
For example, the confetti everywhere, the infrastructure for pulling the crotch, the charge for taking the elevator in Paris, the Europeans who run the red lights, the names of foreigners who have "come here" engraved in the Colosseum, and the poor signal to watch the video......
Chinese tourists, both physically and psychologically, are about to be suffocated.
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Chinese tourists yearn for Europe and the United States, but in the minds of many people, "Europe" is Western Europe and Northern Europe.
As for "beauty", it is not the Americas, but the United States.
In 2019, China visited the U.S. with 2.83 million visitors, making it the fifth-largest source of inbound travel to the U.S., behind Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and, unsurprisingly, Japan.
When traveling to the United States, New York is a must-see.
But in this cosmopolitan city, there are surprises and frightenings. In order to help people avoid pitfalls, people have given a lot of advice, the most important of which is: if you go to New York, don't take the subway.
The well-known up master "Jerry Guo" once said: "The New York subway is the most chaotic subway in the world." ”
The New York subway, which has a history of more than 100 years, seems to be stuck in the early part of the last century. According to Americans' complaints on the Internet, the slots of the New York subway include, but are not limited to, dilapidated facilities, sluggish equipment, smells like biological weapons, no air conditioning, no elevators, and the radio is so vague that Americans can't understand it......
There are two other features of the New York subway.
First, the route is extremely complex, which can be called the underground version of the Xizhimen overpass, a nightmare for tourists.
Second, the rodent infestation is serious. Jerry Guo bluntly said: "The New York subway is the home of rats, they get married, have children and eat, they are all here." An app called "Transit" also launched a new feature last year, "New York Subway Mouse Detector", to update users on the density of rats in each subway station.
As a must-see place for travel to New York, Times Square has also laid a good mine for tourists.
Their routines are not new, for example, a group of puppets enthusiastically pull tourists to take pictures, after the photo is over, each puppet asks for money, and if you don't give money, you won't let them go; rickshaws solicit customers, and they say $50 before getting on the bus, and when they get off the bus, it becomes $150; roadside stalls don't have a clear price, and it's cheaper to sell to locals and more expensive to tourists.
There is still no solution to these stubborn diseases, so netizens can only advise those who are going to travel to New York: never wear a T-shirt or hat with the words "I LOVE NY", which will look like a tourist and greatly increase the chance of being slaughtered.
But when it comes to ripping customers, New York's methods can only be regarded as unpretentious.
Some netizens lived in Egypt for a month and expressed this emotion: "If an Egyptian doesn't lie to me for a day, I think he is brewing a bigger scam." ”
From the moment they landed, the mild-mannered and golden-rich Chinese tourists became the object of hunting.
The ubiquitous "give me $1" slogan is just an appetizer, and if you don't give it, you will probably get away with it.
The driver asks for the price and sits on the ground on the way, which can only be regarded as an old routine of disgusting people.
There are many more tricks that cannot be guarded against, and they have been preparing to ambush tourists.
When buying something, if the shopkeeper doesn't have change, either don't give change or just give another thing.
When eating in a restaurant, there is a handful of melon seeds on the table, and if you eat it, you may have to pay eight or ten yuan more.
Take pictures in the scenic area, accidentally photograph locals or camels, and the next second someone will come to ask for knife music. Some Egyptians will also scam or snatch tourists' mobile phones, click and take pictures, and do not give money or return the phone.
What is even more hateful is that the people who shouted "hello" and "I love China" enthusiastically stepped forward to put on headscarves, take photos, and hug Chinese tourists, and immediately reached out to ask for money after the end, cheating money and feelings.
Every link can cheat money, and even be cheated by official personnel with work permits.
The only good news that is certain is that after the trip to Egypt, Chinese tourists may have significantly improved their English proficiency, as they have to fight in English every day.
The root cause of the broken filter: it is "spoiled"!
Why aren't some outbound trips as rosy as they were imagined?
At the end of the day, it's not that they've changed, it's us who have changed and raised the threshold.
Many of these problems have been problems in the past, and may be more serious. But now, in addition to the problem of large number of people on holiday, China has greatly upgraded in terms of ensuring basic tourism experience.
These upgrades, it may only be when foreign tourists exclaim that we realize that it is not the norm in the world.
For example, the security that is unimaginable for foreigners.
A Frenchman who came to Beijing took a video and said: There are two girls chatting by the dim river in the middle of the night, and there is almost no one around, which is incredible. In France, it is not safe to be accompanied by a boy in such an environment.
In another foreigner's video, a shopkeeper sleeps with his head on his back, unafraid of someone stealing.
There are also express cabinets, take-out cabinets, and unmanned stores at your fingertips, but few people steal them, and foreign tourists can't help but take video records when they see them.
Before coming to China, they generally believed that China was not safe. After all, many organizations have perennially ranked Chinese cities behind in terms of safety. As shown in the figure below, Beijing only ranks 31, which is not as good as Chicago and New York.
When they came to China, they learned that the danger of the night in China is usually just a flattening of the wallet and a bigger belly.
In addition to law and order, another major upgrade to ensure the tourism experience in China is infrastructure.
By the end of 2023, China's railways will have an operating mileage of 149,000 kilometers, including 45,000 kilometers of high-speed railways, which have sunk to third- and fourth-tier cities. It can be seen on the Internet that the high-speed rail that people are accustomed to is a must-take place for foreigners to travel to China, and the appearance rate is higher than that of 5A-level scenic spots.
Foreign tourists take pictures of the speed displayed on the screen of the high-speed rail
Signal towers and power lines are also spread across the country, even in the most remote mountain villages.
Therefore, a certain variety show clip on the other side was also ridiculed by mainland netizens. The guests of the show recharged their mobile phones, and it arrived in less than half an hour, and they bluntly said that the efficiency was exaggerated. Netizen spicy comment: There is no news after recharging for more than 10 seconds, and I am going to suspect that I have charged the wrong number.
In terms of guaranteeing a basic tourism experience, China has achieved the goal of "spoiling" tourists.
Now it has also opened a more difficult "pet fan" mode, and Zibo, Harbin, Tianshui, etc. have been sampled.
This may be why, not only the enthusiasm of Chinese people for tourism is high, but also more and more foreigners come to China for tourism. According to Ctrip's data, in the first quarter of this year, domestic inbound travel orders increased by more than 3 times year-on-year.
In China, tourists who have had a good experience are abandoning the attractions that have had a bad experience.
If you want to put on a high-end filter again, you also need to do more basic work.
No one wants to spend money all the time to be unhappy.
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