The drop in Chinese tourist presence in France, and Europe as a whole, may stem from various causes.
First, summer is not a busy season for tourism. Second, the rise in air fares triggered by the oil price hike may have deterred some tourists. Third, the earthquake that caused heavy casualties in Sichuan has adversely affected Chinese people's mood, who traditionally choose not to take merry-making trips away from home at such sad moments. Fourth, there were some citizens who stated that they would boycott France in their overseas travels as a result of the anti-Chinese actions in the country when the Olympic torch relay was on in Paris.
Even if a boycott were the main reason for the decreasing number of Chinese tourists in Europe, it is of their own will. Why did our Western friends insist that it was a move by the Chinese government? Didn't they see how angry the Chinese people were when the torch relay was repeatedly disrupted in some Western cities?
Some people in the West seem to believe that the Chinese people are living under a totalitarian regime. They tend to think that the Chinese yearn for the Western world. They would not accept a scenario that the Chinese resist an opportunity to see the Western paradise.
The Chinese did once view the West as a sort of paradise in the 1980s when the country began to open to the outside world and they saw for the first time that lives in Western countries were not like what they had thought it to be. In later years, as exchanges became more and more frequent, the Chinese people learned that there were also dark sides in the West and that every country had its own advantages and disadvantages.
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