PHUKET: Authorities have named and shamed four travellers over an incident last week at Don Muang Airport in Bangkok in which they vented their frustration by belting out the Chinese national anthem, reports The Associate Press.
The four were part of a group from Chongqing whose Orient Thai Airlines flight home had been delayed by eight hours because of maintenance and heavy rain.
When the plane arrived, they refused to board until their compensation demands were met, then broke into the national anthem amid hooting, shouts and general chaos in the departure lounge.
The Chongqing tourism bureau subsequently blacklisted 33 people from the group, requesting all travel agencies not to accept them as members of tour groups, according to a report in the Western China City Daily, a newspaper in Chengdu in Sichuan province.
The China National Tourism Administration agency said on Saturday that it had added the travellers' names to its list of those accused of ''uncivilised behavior''.
Rising incomes and cheap flights have resulted in record numbers of Chinese travelling domestically and abroad. Among other complaints are line-cutting, smoking in public, littering and fouling public toilets..
VIDEO Chinese tourists sing over Bangkok flight delay
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The four were part of a group from Chongqing whose Orient Thai Airlines flight home had been delayed by eight hours because of maintenance and heavy rain.
When the plane arrived, they refused to board until their compensation demands were met, then broke into the national anthem amid hooting, shouts and general chaos in the departure lounge.
The Chongqing tourism bureau subsequently blacklisted 33 people from the group, requesting all travel agencies not to accept them as members of tour groups, according to a report in the Western China City Daily, a newspaper in Chengdu in Sichuan province.
The China National Tourism Administration agency said on Saturday that it had added the travellers' names to its list of those accused of ''uncivilised behavior''.
Rising incomes and cheap flights have resulted in record numbers of Chinese travelling domestically and abroad. Among other complaints are line-cutting, smoking in public, littering and fouling public toilets..
VIDEO Chinese tourists sing over Bangkok flight delay
http://news.carnoc.com/list/323/323015.html
The future of Phuket tourism is pinned on these groups ?
If I had to board a Orient Thai flight, I'd be praying, not singing.
Posted by Herbert on September 12, 2015 16:03