VietNamNet Bridge – Many Chinese tour guides have entered Vietnam by travel visa to work illegally. In the latest case in Da Nang, a Chinese guide was even detected to distort Vietnamese history.

Chinese tour guide Xue Chun Zhe distorted Vietnam history while guiding a group of Chinese tourists at Linh Ung Pagoda in Da Nang.

Tran Chi Cuong, deputy director of the Da Nang Tourism Department, on June 28 said he had received photos and video clips as evidence that many Chinese tour guides were working illegally in Vietnam.

Evidence showed that the Chinese tour guides broke Vietnam law by spending Chinese yuan to purchase goods in Vietnam. And some of them told tourists inaccurate information about Vietnam history.

According to a video provided to the Da Nang authorities by Vietnamese tour guides who specialize in serving Chinese tourists, when taking a group of Chinese visitors to the Linh Ung Pagoda in Son Tra Peninsula, Da Nang, a Chinese tour guide named Xue Chun Zhe said: "14 centuries ago, Vietnam belonged to the northern part of China. Later, Vietnam became independent and established a country, but it was still a dependent country, which had to pay tribute to China."

Vietnamese tour guides for Chinese visitors also said that many Chinese tour guides told Chinese tourists that the sea of Da Nang belonged to China.

A Chinese tour guide uses yuan to buy goods in Da Nang.

"Chinese tour guides also told their tourists that Vietnamese people hated China so Chinese tourists should not listen to what the Vietnamese tour guides say. If they work with Vietnamese guides, they did not speak Mandarin, but local accents in Hangzhou, Chengdu, Guangdong, Nanning ... so though we know Chinese, we could not understand what they said," a Vietnamese tour guide for Chinese tourists said.

According to Vietnamese tour guides for Chinese people, there are about 60 Chinese tour guides who work illegally in Da Nang. Most travel companies that serve Chinese tourists are registered by Vietnamese people but they are run by Chinese people.

On June 9, a group of Vietnamese tour guides for Chinese visitors met with representatives of the Da Nang Department of Tourism and handed over photos and video clips of illegal activities of Chinese tour guides in Da Nang.

Under Vietnamese law, foreigners are not allowed to work as tour guides in Vietnam.

Colonel Tran Huu Do, head of the Immigration Administration of the Danang Police Agency, said that foreigners who entered Vietnam with travel visa and worked as tour guides illegally would be deported.

Da Nang authorities said they would investigate and take action to deal with this situation.

Pha Le