Taiwan braces for Chinese tourists
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1885854 [2008-7-4]
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The 350-room Cheng Pao Hotel near central Taiwan's Sun Moon Lakeseparates Chinese tourists from Japanese guests at meals to ensurethose from China don't take out their nationalist aggressions onvisitors from Japan.
"Japanese and Chinese guests eat at different times and indifferent places, in case of conflict," hotel manager Chang Tse-yensaid.
The same hotel also struggles to feed eight-person Chinese tourgroups on the dirt-cheap maximum of T$1,200 ($39) that some arewilling to pay for meals, including extra garlic and extra chilipeppers. Taiwanese diners would expect to pay more.
"Chinese tourists seldom travel outside China, so they may not beused to some things," Chang said.
Cheng Pao hotel's experience with its trickle of Chinese touristsis a signal of how much culture shock Taiwan can expect when itopens its doors to thousands of visitors from China on Friday.
Though most people in China and Taiwan are ethnic Chinese, 59 yearsof separation and radically different governments have pulled themapart. The two have been ruled separately since defeatedNationalist forces fled to the island amid civil war in 1949.
The two sides agreed at a historic meeting last month to let up to3,000 China tourists visit the largely forbidden island, which seesthem as a way to jumpstart the economy.
"There's a culture gap, so I definitely think there are going to begrowing pains," said Raymond Wu, a political risk consultant inTaipei. "There may be a sense of superiority or an inferioritycomplex depending on your perspective."
The differences are myriad
People from Taiwan and Japan generally get on well, as Taiwanesehave fonder memories of their Japanese colonial past than Chinese.There would have been no need for separate dining times at Sun Moonlake's Cheng Pao hotel.
Taiwan citizens, who are influenced heavily by hyper-polite Japan,fear Chinese will yell, spit or cut in on queues, all of which arean anathema to many Taiwanese.
A city health director in southern Taiwan apologised last weekafter saying authorities would "disinfect the places where Chinesetourists have passed through," local media reported.
Chinese, unlike the Taiwanese, will also haggle on the prices ofsmall purchases, merchants at tourist hotspots say.
"You might have 21,000 Chinese people in the street per day. It's atest to the system here," said Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of Taiwan'smain opposition party. "Cultural differences and systemicdifferences between us and Taiwan will be accentuated."
Trust our tourists
The culture shock may not be confined to the Taiwanese.
Barred from Taiwan for so long, some Chinese tourists may expect tosee glitzy high-rises and shiny new infrastructure as signs of theisland's development, consultant Wu noted.
Many Taiwan buildings are cramped, tattered and rain-stained. TheTaipei domestic airport has been compared to Pyongyang's.
But Mou Jianmin, working with a Beijing travel agency to bringtourists to Taiwan, said Chinese expecting glitzy would have headedto Pudong in Shanghai or to New York.
He thinks Chinese tourists will behave well in Taiwan.
"Maybe in a group of 10, only one will spit," he said.
This week Chinese officials defended the behaviour of theirtourists, insisting they would be polite and citing no need for ahotel curfew to ensure none stayed in Taiwan illegally to work.
"I don't think that will happen. Trust our tourists," Li Renzhi,head of China's National Tourism Administration's qualitymanagement division, told a throng of Taiwan reporters.
Taiwan business people who have met Chinese tourists before aren'tworried.
"They're quite polite," said Lin Yi-jen with the Sun Moon Lake FullHouse B&B. "You get intellectuals and professors. We're readyto receive them just as we would Taiwanese."
Meanwhile, activists from the Falun Gong spiritual movement, whichis banned in China but legal in democratic Taiwan, have massed atmajor travel hotspots to hand leaflets out to the Chinese aboutalleged atrocities by the Beijing government.
The 350-room Cheng Pao Hotel near central Taiwan's Sun Moon Lakeseparates Chinese tourists from Japanese guests at meals to ensurethose from China don't take out their nationalist aggressions onvisitors from Japan.
"Japanese and Chinese guests eat at different times and indifferent places, in case of conflict," hotel manager Chang Tse-yensaid.
The same hotel also struggles to feed eight-person Chinese tourgroups on the dirt-cheap maximum of T$1,200 ($39) that some arewilling to pay for meals, including extra garlic and extra chilipeppers. Taiwanese diners would expect to pay more.
"Chinese tourists seldom travel outside China, so they may not beused to some things," Chang said.
Cheng Pao hotel's experience with its trickle of Chinese touristsis a signal of how much culture shock Taiwan can expect when itopens its doors to thousands of visitors from China on Friday.
Though most people in China and Taiwan are ethnic Chinese, 59 yearsof separation and radically different governments have pulled themapart. The two have been ruled separately since defeatedNationalist forces fled to the island amid civil war in 1949.
The two sides agreed at a historic meeting last month to let up to3,000 China tourists visit the largely forbidden island, which seesthem as a way to jumpstart the economy.
"There's a culture gap, so I definitely think there are going to begrowing pains," said Raymond Wu, a political risk consultant inTaipei. "There may be a sense of superiority or an inferioritycomplex depending on your perspective."
The differences are myriad
People from Taiwan and Japan generally get on well, as Taiwanesehave fonder memories of their Japanese colonial past than Chinese.There would have been no need for separate dining times at Sun Moonlake's Cheng Pao hotel.
Taiwan citizens, who are influenced heavily by hyper-polite Japan,fear Chinese will yell, spit or cut in on queues, all of which arean anathema to many Taiwanese.
A city health director in southern Taiwan apologised last weekafter saying authorities would "disinfect the places where Chinesetourists have passed through," local media reported.
Chinese, unlike the Taiwanese, will also haggle on the prices ofsmall purchases, merchants at tourist hotspots say.
"You might have 21,000 Chinese people in the street per day. It's atest to the system here," said Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of Taiwan'smain opposition party. "Cultural differences and systemicdifferences between us and Taiwan will be accentuated."
Trust our tourists
The culture shock may not be confined to the Taiwanese.
Barred from Taiwan for so long, some Chinese tourists may expect tosee glitzy high-rises and shiny new infrastructure as signs of theisland's development, consultant Wu noted.
Many Taiwan buildings are cramped, tattered and rain-stained. TheTaipei domestic airport has been compared to Pyongyang's.
But Mou Jianmin, working with a Beijing travel agency to bringtourists to Taiwan, said Chinese expecting glitzy would have headedto Pudong in Shanghai or to New York.
He thinks Chinese tourists will behave well in Taiwan.
"Maybe in a group of 10, only one will spit," he said.
This week Chinese officials defended the behaviour of theirtourists, insisting they would be polite and citing no need for ahotel curfew to ensure none stayed in Taiwan illegally to work.
"I don't think that will happen. Trust our tourists," Li Renzhi,head of China's National Tourism Administration's qualitymanagement division, told a throng of Taiwan reporters.
Taiwan business people who have met Chinese tourists before aren'tworried.
"They're quite polite," said Lin Yi-jen with the Sun Moon Lake FullHouse B&B. "You get intellectuals and professors. We're readyto receive them just as we would Taiwanese."
Meanwhile, activists from the Falun Gong spiritual movement, whichis banned in China but legal in democratic Taiwan, have massed atmajor travel hotspots to hand leaflets out to the Chinese aboutalleged atrocities by the Beijing government.
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