To prevent further embarrassment and taintin of China's image, the Chinese government is planning to implement a "blacklist" of Chinese tourists who behave inappropriately abroad.

China's National Tourism Administration (NTA) declared that the blacklist will include Chinese tourists who are "acting antisocially on public transport, damaging private or public property, disrespecting local customs, sabotaging historical exhibits or engaging in gambling or pornographic activities."

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The NTA said that the "blacklist" will serve as a database of Chinese travellers who commit offenses overseas. The names in the database will be shared to the police, customs officials as well as to the different banks.

People will be blacklisted for two years after they committed offensive acts.

The "blacklist" will have a two-tiered system in which the local-level tourism authorities will be in-charge of cases that are under its jurisdiction. The NTA, on the other hand, is responsible for the nationwide registered cases.

Since the rate of outbound Chinese tourists has increased over the past decade, there have been complaints of unruly behaviour among Chinese tourists abroad. This allegedly put China in an embarrassing spot at the international scene.  

Recently, Chinese tourists caused rage among people at the Thailand airport when they blatantly hung their wet underwear on the airport benches for drying-up. There were also reports in Thailand of Chinese tourists who defecated in public places and inappropriately kicked a bell in one of the Thai temples.

In 2013, an incident in Egypt triggered online outrage when a Chinese tourist vandalized an ancient carving in Egypt with his name.

There were also reports last year of unruly Chinese airplane passengers such as throwing hot noodles to the cabin crew and attempting to open the plane's emergency exit doors.

Meanwhile, the NTA included in its 2013 Guidebook for Civilized Tourists that tourists should not steal life jackets hidden under airplane's seats, pick their noses in public places, and pee in swimming pools.

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