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Ill-mannered tourist 鈥榥amed and shamed鈥

A SHANGHAI man has been named and shamed as an “ill-mannered tourist” for beating up a shop worker in the Japanese city of Sapporo in September.

The attacker was named as 36-year-old Rong Jiaxin by the China National Tourism Administration.

He will be “blacklisted” for three years, the administration said, though it did not state what actual punishment he might face.

Rong was detained by Japanese police after attacking a man who worked in a convenience store.

The tourist alleged at the time that the sales assistant had insulted his wife, with whom he was on his honeymoon.

Rong is one of 16 Chinese to have been named and shamed since the introduction in May of “uncivilized behavior records” by the country’s top tourism authorities.

The aim of the system is to deter bad behavior by Chinese people traveling overseas.

There were almost 62 million Chinese outbound tourists in the first half of the year, the administration said.

An official with the administration said the information might be passed to police, customs, banks, frontier inspection and transportation authorities, and other organizations that issue credit, according to Xinhua news agency.

Unnamed “experts” said being included on the blacklist “might” affect people when they try to go abroad in the future.

It might also affect their applications for bank loans.

Under the rules of the new scheme, anyone who is named and shamed will be reminded not to misbehave in the future.

Two of the other people named and shamed this year were from outside Shanghai.

One of them was Shi Ao, a woman from southwest China’s Sichuan Province, who made the list for abusing a fellow passenger on a flight from Siem Reap in Cambodia to Chengdu in October.

The other was Huang Jiankui, a man from central China’s Hunan Province, who hit a tour guide on the head with a tea cup during a one-day tour in Dujiangyan in Sichuan Province in August.


 

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