Chinese Tourists Caught Using Forged Tickets

After the pounding that the reputation of Chinese tourists has taken in the last few months, you'd think that they would've at least thought about behaving a little better.

Well, they didn't, and this time officials at the Louvre have discovered that Chinese tourists were using fake tickets in order get into the museum.

French police have launched an investigation after Belgian customs officers seized a package sent from China containing 3,600 fake entry tickets for the museum worth at least 144,000 euros ($191,388), according to reports.

The usual comments were out on Weibo, with people saying that this incident "seriously damages the repuation of the Chinese people".  We're pretty unsure about how bad the reputation of Chinese tourists can get, and God knows it's taken a quite a kicking over the summer.

Two Chinese people were arrested on Aug 19 with a dozen of the forgeries. French police suspect the organizers of the fake ticket network may have acted with the complicity of several Chinese tourist agencies.

As has been pointed, it could be that the buyers bought the tickets unknowingly.  The fact that Chinese tourists agencies are involved, and probably there is more than one gang operating, is probably causing headaches for the Chinese Embassy in Paris.  Management a the Louvre said that because their tickets are valid for a year, there's no way of telling how many fakes are in circulation.