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Bad behavior included violating customs, destroying public
infrastructure and historic sites, causing disturbances on
public transport and participating in gambling and prostitution,
the agency said.
"China's image has already been tarnished," the China National
Tourism Administration said on its website.
The actions of badly behaved tourists has caused many people to
"blush with shame" and people who behaved badly overseas needed
to "learn a lesson", it added. It did not specify the nature of
any punishment.
Regulators would hunt out bad behavior through tips from local
tourism bureaus, media reports and the general public.
In 2013, a Chinese student sparked an outcry in Egypt after
scratching his name on the wall of an ancient temple in Luxor,
while a mainland couple drew ire in Hong Kong for allowing their
two-year-old child to defecate on a sidewalk.
Thai authorities issued thousands of Chinese-language etiquette
manuals in February after Chinese tourists were caught drying
underwear at a temple, kicking a bell at a sacred shrine and
washing their feet in a public restroom.
Overseas travel has boomed in recent years among increasingly
affluent Chinese, who have become the world's biggest spenders
on travel since 2012, according to the U.N. World Tourism
Organization.
(Reporting by Sue-Lin Wong; Editing by Adam Jourdan and Robert
Birsel)
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