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[quote=TRAVELINGINCHINA,403174]A video of a HK tour guide scolding mainland tourists for spending little shopping has sparked a storm of public criticism.

The following is what she said:

"Spend more, you’ll be happier…don’t tell me you don’t need [to buy more], next you’ll be telling me you don’t need to eat at meal time,” the tour guide says aggressively to a crowded bus of Chinese tourists. “I will lock you out of your hotel rooms because you don’t need them [either].”

"It's okay for you to stay poor at home, but when you travel outside don't be like this. In this world there is no such thing as a free lunch?"

She goes on to talk about how the visitors found money for their airfares and then chides them: "We don't do this for charity. Let me be responsible for charity. I donated 10,500 yuan [HK$12,027] for Sichuan earthquake victims."

"For a group of 24 people you only just spent HK$13,000. How can you just walk out of the shop like that?"

She then points to shops offering top- quality goods, before adding: "Why did you bother to come to Hong Kong?"

It has been known that the tour guides in many places will bring the tourists into expensive stores to exchange for a cut of the sales. If the tourists don’t buy enough, the guides become very unfriendly.

In early of July, four people from Henan complained they were abandoned in Guangzhou after refusing to pay an extra HK$2,000 for not shopping in Hong Kong during a tour.

On May 22, a tourist from Hunan Province quarreled with a tour guide in Hong Kong on shopping issue. He was too angry and died of heart attack.

As a tourist, what can we do to avoid suffering from such unfair treatment?   
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