Chinese tourists refused to return stainless steel cutlery on SQ flight

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A group of tourists from a small town in China’s Zhejiang province surprised Singapore Airlines staff when they refused to hand over 30 sets of stainless steel tableware, reported a Chinese daily on Tuesday.

After a meal provided on board, the Chinese passengers, who were on a tour of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, decided to keep the stainless steel knives and forks, said Qianjiang Evening News.

Even though flight attendants told the tourists the stainless steel tableware were to be re-used, the tourists stubbornly refused to hand them over, saying that relatives who had flown with the airline in the past told them that they could keep the tableware.

It was only after repeated warnings from a tour guide on the plane that they agreed to hand them over.

The tour guide reportedly told the tourists that they were hurting China’s image abroad and to “stop hurting the reputation of Chinese people.”

This incident follows other reports of bad behaviour from Chinese travellers. A Chinese boy carved his name on a 3,000 year old relic during a trip to Egypt recently. Earlier this year, a mainland Chinese mother asked her son to relieve himself in a bottle in the middle of a crowded Hong Kong restaurant.


- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/tourists-on...015213972.html


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