Parks in Beijing want to blacklist 'uncivilized' visitors
Tourism authorities in Beijing said they are considering creating a blacklist of"uncivilized visitors" in order to curb bad behavior by visitors, as the city is inundated with tourists for Tomb Sweeping Festival.
A blacklist would block"loutish travelers" from visiting the city's parks, using facial recognition software and other surveillance technology to monitor guests and keep out those with a record of bad behavior.to prevent what officials said was an epidemic of toilet paper theft. Those needing paper had to make eye contact with a machine before it spit out a single portion -- anyone needing more than the provided amount would need to wait 9 minutes.
"Many old people come here for free toilet paper. They were probably born in 1940s or 1950s," Wu Qingqi, a visitor to the park, told CNN at the time."During that time, people were very poor. And they somehow still are in fear of being poor. Other migrant workers come here too." An aerial picture of graves taken on April 5, 2019, ahead of the annual Qingming festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, at a cemetery in Dagantangcun, east of Beijing.Chinese tourists made more than 112 million domestic trips during this year's Tomb Sweeping Festival, a 10.9% increase on last year,Policing of tourists has been
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