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Alice Yan

Tibet plans to blacklist mainland tourists who deface its Mount Everest scenic zone with graffiti.
The plan for the area known on the mainland as Mt Qomolangma echoes a name-and-shame scheme introduced by the China National Tourism Administration last year after a string of cases of uncivilised behaviour by mainland tourists both at home and abroad.
Gu Chunlei, deputy tourism director of Tibet’s Dingri county, said more than 40,000 tourists visited the zone last year and an increasing number were leaving their names on its monuments, Xinhua reports.
“It’s difficult to prevent this kind of uncivilised behaviour by a small number of tourists. Some people argue with us when we try to stop them,” Xinhua quoted Gu as saying.
“The spectacular natural scenery has lost its beauty because of the graffiti.”
Chinese tourists leave their mark at attractions around Shanghai Disneyland
He said that in addition to stepped-up patrols and expanded public awareness campaigns, local authorities would set up a black list to deter the vandals.
The spectacular natural scenery has lost its beauty because of the graffiti
Gu Chunlei, deputy tourism director of Tibet’s Dingri county
Gu said tourists already had to register to enter the scenic zone, making it easier to identify any wrongdoers.
Authorities would also set up several “graffiti walls” so tourists could leave their mark and gradually change their “bad habits”, Gu said.
It’s time more nations copied China’s tourist blacklist for bad behaviour
The tourism official said his staff had to use petrol or other chemicals to remove the graffiti once every two weeks.
Mainland tourists have long carved sentences or their names at scenic spots, with their graffiti found on wall, plants’ leaves and tree trunks.
Three years ago a young boy from Nanjing, Jiangsu province, reportedly scratched “Ding Jinhao was here” on a relief sculpture at a 3,000-year-old Egyptian temple.
His parents later made an apology to the public.


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Tibet to blacklist graffitiing tourists at Everest scenic site

Tourists’ graffiti are seen on the monument at Mount Everest scenic zone. Photo: SCMP Pictures