This excludes yet the Chinese tourists who arrive in the thousands.
As I have pointed out in the Swiss experience, the massive tourist arrivals are likely to result in a few unpleasant skirmishes between the visitors and the locals. Are these incidents unavoidable because of the sheer mass of newcomers who crowd out locals from their daily routine? Are these run-ins “non-issues” that are simply attributable to differences in cultural or social behavior? Only time will tell.
But the reports of abuse by Chinese tourists in the Philippines are rising. The most highlighted case was that of the Chinese woman who was arrested after she threw her drink at an MRT cop who was enforcing an MRT rule not to allow liquids or drinks in any form inside the trains.[]