Tibet mulls blacklisting Chinese tourists who defaced Mount Everest site

Source: Asian Correspondent

THE Tibetan government is planning to come up with a blacklist of mainland Chinese tourists who vandalized landmarks on Mount Everest.

The proposal for the blacklist was made after the authorities recorded a high number of graffiti incidences in the mountain’s scenic zone over the past few years.

Most commonly, informative signage were often found to be defaced with scribbles of Chinese names at Everest base camp monuments.

According to the South China Morning Post, the plan for the area, known on the mainland as Mount Qomolangma, echoes a name-and-shame scheme introduced by the China National Tourism Administration last year.

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