Thairetired2016

Who is more popular?

scot47

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

My racist neighbours in independent Zambia used to rant on about "Kaiser Bill was right - the threat is in the East" Maybe they were right. We get bus loads of Chinese visitors even here on my remote Scottish island, close to Ultima Thule.

spouse of scouse

Isn't getting lots of tourists visiting a good thing for your local economy? Does it matter what nationality they are?

Pongo

Millhouse

scot47

Chinese visitors like to go shopping. They are looking for the ultimate retail experience. I am not prejudiced. Kaiser Bill was, as were my white settler neighbours in Central Africa,

scrubbedexpat141

Not when you're a miserable, nasty nationalist like this gentleman.

Thairetired2016

Tourists are a blessing and a curse. Blessing are the ones who spend some money. Very few however do when they arrive on bus tours.
A curse is when the village has 800 residents and gets 10.000 tourists/day. This is Hallstatt in Austria. Hallstatt is squashed between a mountain and a lake. You can only get there by ferry. Chinese copied and rebuilt it in China. Now they want to see the original.
It is not unusual for a tourist walking into a house to take pics. They think it is an exhibition like in China.

Arnold S

"Once you agree on a price, that's when the negotiations start"

The company I worked for years ago paid someone to travel to China and seal containers prior to shipping. Anything that had been tampered with then the payment was meant to be refused upon receiving the goods. Didn't stop them trying almost every shipment.

I knew another company that imported from China on the provision that if 50% of it was usable then it would still be worthwhile.

scot47

Tourism is a blessing ? Tell that to the ordinary folk who live in Prague, Venice or Edinburgh.

Thairetired2016

My hometown has 150thou residents and 6 million visitors/year. Souvenir sellers are happy, rest of us is fed up. Luckily, I spend only a few months there every year.