A Chinese teenager who posed for a photo sitting on the head of a statue of a female revolutionary soldier has become the first tourist to be put on the nation’s new ‘tourism blacklist.’
Li Wenchun, a hotel worker, was visiting the ‘Red Army Memorial Garden’ at the Victory Mountain Scenic Area in Yan’an in northwest China, when he decided to climb on the statue to take a picture. According to China’s National Tourism Administration, the photograph aroused “public condemnation” after it began to circulate on social media.
The fact that Yan’an is an old revolutionary base area, renowned as the place where the Communist Party’s Red Army sought shelter after its famous Long March of 1934-1935, may have added to the level of criticism. The tourism administration announced on its website that Li had been placed on the “National List of Uncivilized Tourist Behavior,” and would remain blacklisted for 10 years.
It also said the Victory Mountain Scenic Area would not be considered for China's official Grade 'A' Tourism Area status for the next two years because of lax management, according to a Shanghai-based news website. Li was reported to have gone voluntarily to the local tourism bureau to apologize after the online criticism began, and later wrote a letter in which he apologized to “the citizens of the whole nation,” the website said. Full story...
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Li Wenchun, a hotel worker, was visiting the ‘Red Army Memorial Garden’ at the Victory Mountain Scenic Area in Yan’an in northwest China, when he decided to climb on the statue to take a picture. According to China’s National Tourism Administration, the photograph aroused “public condemnation” after it began to circulate on social media.
The fact that Yan’an is an old revolutionary base area, renowned as the place where the Communist Party’s Red Army sought shelter after its famous Long March of 1934-1935, may have added to the level of criticism. The tourism administration announced on its website that Li had been placed on the “National List of Uncivilized Tourist Behavior,” and would remain blacklisted for 10 years.
It also said the Victory Mountain Scenic Area would not be considered for China's official Grade 'A' Tourism Area status for the next two years because of lax management, according to a Shanghai-based news website. Li was reported to have gone voluntarily to the local tourism bureau to apologize after the online criticism began, and later wrote a letter in which he apologized to “the citizens of the whole nation,” the website said. Full story...
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