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French Tourism Ministry Releases New Guide
By JOHN LEICESTER
The Associated Press
Thursday, January 4, 2007; 6:26 AM
PARIS -- A new guide co-produced by the French Tourism Ministry advises businesspeople not to mention Tibet, Taiwan and the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators when negotiating with the Chinese.
France's League of Human and Citizens' Rights said it was scandalized that a government agency was offering such advice.
Destined for tourism professionals, the 65-page guide, "Chinese tourists: How best to welcome them?" has plenty of handy tips. It recommends, for instance, that restaurateurs put out soy sauce and chili paste so Chinese tourists can spice up French dishes, "which they can find bland."
The advice to avoid sensitive political subjects comes in the chapter "Negotiating and Doing Business."
"Avoid speaking about Chinese politics, for example: The events on Tiananmen Square, strategic questions of Taiwan or of Tibet," the guide says under the subheading, "Principles of etiquette."
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of unarmed protesters were killed when the Chinese army cleared student demonstrators from the square in the heart of Beijing on June 4, 1989. China claims sovereignty over the self-ruling island of Taiwan and has been accused of destroying Tibetan culture and of widespread human rights abuses in Tibet since it invaded the Himalayan territory in 1950.
The guide was launched by French Tourism Minister Leon Bertrand last month and bears the logos of his ministry and its tourism promotion agency, Maison de la France.
Elisabeth Alles, a spokeswoman on China affairs for the human rights league, called the advice "completely scandalous."
"We know that the word 'Tiananmen' is practically banned in China, but it is not in France, and the French should not submit to directives in effect in China," Alles told The Associated Press.
"We should not be telling people what they should and should not be saying," she said.
Franck Paillard, vice director of communication for Maison de la France, said 6,000 copies of the guide were printed. Its contents were put together by the agency, the tourism ministry and outside experts consulted for their knowledge of China and of Chinese tourists, he said.
Chinese tourism to France is growing rapidly. Paillard said an estimated 650,000 to 660,000 tourists from China visited last year, up from 600,000 in 2005.
He defended the guide's advice, saying the aim was to avoid subjects that could anger the Chinese.
"It is not that we do not want to discuss them; it is more that they apparently are bothered by it," he said. "If we want to do business with them and we start by saying things that they don't like ..."
© 2007 The Associated Press
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