{"id":18000,"date":"2014-01-13T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-intolerant-not-me-now-hurry-up\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T02:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:48:00","slug":"struth-intolerant-not-me-now-hurry-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/01\/struth-intolerant-not-me-now-hurry-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Intolerant? Not me, now hurry up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-zxV1WsQ2XVE\/UtNT7BKAbQI\/AAAAAAAAkd0\/1lp8ow8KVm4\/s1600\/fawlty%2Btowers%2Bbasil%2Band%2Bmanuel-791592.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-zxV1WsQ2XVE\/UtNT7BKAbQI\/AAAAAAAAkd0\/1lp8ow8KVm4\/s320\/fawlty%2Btowers%2Bbasil%2Band%2Bmanuel-791592.png\" height=\"216\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<b><span><\/span><\/b><b><span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<div lang=\"EN-AU\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\">\n<div>\n<br \/>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Britain&#8217;s tourism bosses are being accused of coming-up with advice akin to that from Basil of Fawlty Towers fame, after they put a series of new &#8220;Do&#8217;s&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;ts&#8221; for the travel industry on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbritain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VisitBritain<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst their advice is that Indians tend to change their minds quite frequently, Canadians are offended if called Americans, Russians shouldn&#8217;t be given rooms with low ceilings because &#8220;they are a tall nation,&#8221; people from Hong Kong shouldn&#8217;t be given four-poster beds as they associate them with ghosts, and that Germans and Austrians can be demanding to the point of seeming rude and aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>And Australians? According to the new VisitBritain website local tourism operators and hoteliers should expect Australians to be very direct and to the point, and sometimes &#8220;hard to read.&#8221; And because of the distance we&#8217;ve travelled to get to Britain, we &#8220;may not have slept for 30 hours, and could show signs of intolerance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the advice is stereotyped and could be considered offensive to some tourists, but VisitBritain says it&#8217;s based on &#8220;wide market intelligence and allows for an invaluable insight into key markets globally.&#8221;              <\/p>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says Britain&#8217;s tourism bosses are being accused of coming-up with advice akin to that from Basil of Fawlty Towers fame, after they put a series of new &#8220;Do&#8217;s&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;ts&#8221; for the travel industry on their VisitBritain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}