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With opinion polls indicating that Chinese sentiment towards France has greatly deteriorated after the Paris Olympic torch pro-Tibet protests, it's not completely surprising that tourism from Beijing to France has fallen by 70 percent in the past few weeks. But suspicions have arisen that Beijing's official tourism body has taken measures to stop the city's potential travelers from patronizing France. "We were given the assurance that there had never been an order for tourism agencies to boycott France," French ambassador to China Herve Ladsous announced in a press briefing (quoted here in Reuters UK). The decrease in Chinese travelers can partly be explained by an official order discouraging overseas travel after the recent devastation in Sichuan and the upcoming excitement of the Olympics. Ladsous, however, has voiced doubts:
But there is more than that as France has been more directly touched and it is clear that the fall of two-thirds relates to Beijing, whereas in Shanghai, where the authorities did not give any instruction, the visas continued to be delivered at the same speed as before.Meanwhile, as Paris mourns the loss of its Beijing patrons, Los Angeles welcomes the first-ever leisure tour groups from China.
Photo by Marcio Cabral de Moura.
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I've just remembered that Paris actually has a very large French community. I wonder if there were any incidents there after the torch relay in Paris and the protests? I wonder if the French people there decided to boycott France in any way?
Who care visiting a city to which Daliar is an "Honored Citizen"? It stinks of hypocracy lama style. I'd prefer to save the money to pay the tax in China, in order for our 85,000 ungrateful and rioting Tibeten monks brothers to continue having medical insurance as in last 16 years.
But I would be ready to go and spend at least $5,000 there in Paris if Parisans could hold an mass rally at Airbus Headquarter against its selling planes to "demon" China. Dare you? LOL!
Oh, boy. Wait until the tour groups roll through Beverly Hills and the OC hawking fat ones!
eastman, I bet you would. Your taxes would also pay the salaries of the public officials who suppressed the peacefully demonstrating monks before the riots.... you know... those events that sparked the riots in the first place?
And Tenforty is right. Paris has a huge French community. I wonder why that would be.......
I applaud any hit to France's tourism industry.
To taihanasie,
"peacefully demonstrating monks"? When can I finally relieve myself from persuading the less smart ones that no rioting monks were killed and Dalai even cannot hand out at meeting in Shenzhen a detailed list of so-called 200 deads he claimed killed by Chinese security?
And how can I forgot that my tax not only go to 85,000 good for nothing ungrateful and rioting Tibeten monks brothers the medical insurance as in last 16 years and it also go for their salaries for their praying good for your western eyes, though there are still 25 million Han Chinese living under poverty line.
"When can I finally relieve myself "
When you 1) Stop putting words in other people's mouths. I never said the monks were killed, although I would not be surprised if some were by accident.
2) Learn to admit that China has a Tibet problem and that cursing at monks does not solve that, nor does an apparent superiority complex on your part.
3) Stop making assumptions about who you are talking to. I never said anything about my background.
Or, if you put 1, 2, and 3 together, when you stop being so naive and open your eyes to what goes on in your own country instead of blindly accepting what you are told.
Clear enough?
I am already over the age when I had to be told something. But I often wonder why take so much time with some naive kids who never set foot on Tibet soil like me but still like to be spoonfed by Daliar Lama. To enlighten you a bit and prove you are only a blind poor foot-soldier on bandwagen of neo-con's geopolitical agenda, one simple document should actually be enough to an inferiority complex like you, a full text of the Daliar's 1951 telegram to Mao:
"Chairman Mao of the Central People's Government:
This year the local government of Tibet sent five delegates with full authority headed by Kaloon Ngapoi to Beijing in late April 1951 to conduct peace talks with delegates with full authority appointed by the Central People's Government.
On the basis of friendship, delegates on both sides concluded the Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet on May 23,1951.
The local government of Tibet as well as the Tibetan monks and laymen unanimously support this agreement, and under the leadership of Chairman Mao and the Central People's Government, will actively assist the People's Liberation Army in Tibet to consolidate national defence, drive imperialist influences out of Tibet and safeguard the unification of the territory and the sovereignty of the motherland. I hereby send this cable to inform you of this. “
Clear enough, son? lol!
taihanasie,
Before you accuse someone naive, pls first review yourself.
it is funny to notice a youth in 'kid' mindset blame an adult naive. good work.