'Stupid, gullible': China tour guide mocks S'pore tourists

Junyang700 SG

STOMPer CaliDreaming was amused and annoyed by an article she read online in which a China tour guide mocks Singapore tourists for spending money easily. We are not stupid, but their sales people used hard-sell tactics, the STOMPer asserted.

According to the article, a Beijing tour guide made this comment on a Chinese forum. The tour guide also revealed more than half the tour would be spent shopping, and the earnings would be split amongst the shop owner, the tour organisation, the driver and guide.

However, local radio DJs Ling Zhi and Kemin who have brought tour groups to China beg to differ. They said: "Singaporeans are actually very smart, this deceives the tour guide and maybe this creates such a misconception. Actually we are willing to spend."

CaliDreaming has also been to China and she relates her experience:

"I went on a package tour to Guilin and Shangri-La last year.

"Hence, I experienced firsthand the hard-sell tactics that the sales people in the tourist shops used.

"It is amazing how elaborate the sales tactics were.

"The stories spun and claims made about the effectiveness of the products would sound highly convincing to the less cynical and skeptical people.

"I am amused by the report because it is true that there were some very gullible (and rich) Singaporean tourists who fell for the stories and spent huge amounts of money carting home bottles of spirulina pills and boxes of ginseng.

"For the avoidance of doubt, I wasn't one of them!

"What annoys me about the report is that these China tour guides, by mocking Singaporean tourists, are metaphorically biting the hands that feed them.

"If the tourists do not spend so much money, the tour guides would not get paid so well!

"Don't you think the tour guides are being ungrateful?"

Have you been subjected to hard-sell tactics on your holiday in China? Share your experiences below.

Source:
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/what_bugs_me/466104/stupid_gullible_china_tour_guide_mocks_spore_tourists.html#commentSection

Vote PAP OUT to Save SG SG

spend money complain, don't spend also complain.

Junyang700 SG

Haha... I hope those in their 40s and 50s see this...

I am always pissed off when my parents buy loads of things when they go to China. Those things are not cheap and poor in quality.

And when you complain to your parents... They tell you this: "We must support the Chinese. They are very poor you know."

"Please lah... The fact is that we are getting poorer, no jobs for new graduates in Singapore and the fact that these Chinese tour guides can actually have their parents retiring in their 40s, while they make a living working as part-time tour guide."

Please wake up! Uncles and aunties. The world has changed. Prepare money to support your children who are jobless and need you to feed them. Stop getting labelled as being stupid by the PRCs!

Vote PAP OUT to Save SG SG

With PAP suppressing the media, brainwashing people with propaganda filth and stifling intellectual life in Singapore, very hard for Singaporeans to progress and improve.

Lee Kuan Yew, die soon. May you die soon.

Singaporeans are ignorant

“The Taiwanese are ruthless, Hong Kongers are shameless and Singaporeans are ignorant. People who are ignorant are not corrupt and reliable.” (Today, 14 July 2010)

- Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor

http://yoursdp.org/index.php/perspective/political-hors-doeuvre/3929-singaporeans-are-ignorant

'Stupid, gullible': China tour guide mocks S'pore tourists

TIB 781 L SG

Chinese nationals are good on our roads but when it comes to servicing it sucked pretty bad.

Junyang700 SG

Yeah.. cant stand PRC service staff...

Always dreaming and thinking about money... If they are cashier... they keep counting cash the whole day... customer come still counting money... take their own sweet time... -_-"

If they are service staff... they pretend not to see u at all.... -_-"

dragg SG

if you are biased, you will always be biased.

韩飞官 SG

Chinese nationals are good on our roads but when it comes to servicing it sucked pretty bad.

according to newspaper and survey from some westerns, singapore is one of worst servicing in asia. don if wanna compare. singapore will even sucks.

don ask me where i am from.i am middle man.neither supporter of china or singapore. T_T

Herzog_Zwei SG

With PAP suppressing the media, brainwashing people with propaganda filth and stifling intellectual life in Singapore, very hard for Singaporeans to progress and improve.

Lee Kuan Yew, die soon. May you die soon.

Singaporeans are ignorant

“The Taiwanese are ruthless, Hong Kongers are shameless and Singaporeans are ignorant. People who are ignorant are not corrupt and reliable.” (Today, 14 July 2010)

- Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor

http://yoursdp.org/index.php/perspective/political-hors-doeuvre/3929-singaporeans-are-ignorant

'Stupid, gullible': China tour guide mocks S'pore tourists

You are the only ignorant Singaporean around.

likeyou SG

I find them even more stupid! No brain and useless prc.

We go there spend money and you mock at us online somemore, you prc are killing your own job. If the online spread like widefire, you will be out of job very soon as no one will buy from you anymore.

Googdu prcs.

Terminator Hitman SG

if they were smart,,,dun need to go as a tour group to china even in this modern age.just get info from internet n go!since u speak almost the same language u could enjoy china better.....tour group to russia or mongolia i understand but chinese sporean as a tour group to china????me think they are toopid...

Terminator Hitman SG

even me billionaire goto japan or europe also wont wanna get a tour guide.

Call4ljw SG

according to newspaper and survey from some westerns, singapore is one of worst servicing in asia. don if wanna compare. singapore will even sucks.

don ask me where i am from.i am middle man.neither supporter of china or singapore. T_T

When was the survey done?

If you didnt notice, now most of the front line service staff are PRC.

likeyou SG

When was the survey done?

If you didnt notice, now most of the front line service staff are PRC.

Seem like more and more prc in front line service...now becoming yayapapaya.

Asromanista2001 SG

sad but true.................S'poreans simply are dumber.............PAP simply made us even worse..........