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To: Mannie who wrote (30616)	2/1/2019 10:45:39 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

Yes, we are used to international hotels speaking English. The Chinese tourist generally cannot speak any English, so the hotels adjust their service, and capture the corresponding market (Chinese, or the rest of us in English). The thing is there are SO MANY Chinese tourists now in Asia that the hospitality industry must cater to them, and down the road we're going to lose the language / communications battle in Asia. I have a good friend here who runs a bar with food, live band and karaoke optional. For Westerners, it's just awful. The band is awful (synthesizer instead of drums), all the songs are hyper emotive Celine Dion and Whitney Houston tunes, not the upbeat bouncy ones, but the ones where the singer is so so so so so emotional, or they are emotionally singing My Way and that crap, and the Chinese love it. It is full every night because the owner is from Hong Kong and can cater to the tourists, all the tourists are controlled by a Chinese "tour guide" who decides where the Chinese tourists will go each night, the tour guide receives 20% of sales, so the bar owner just jacks up the prices 20% above normal, and the tour guides make money and brings in more and more groups every night, the owner is busy as hell since the guests are happy and the tour guides are making money (so want to bring more guests tomorrow), and for us, from the Western world ...... it's JUST AWFUL. Bad music, expensive, food is OK, neon lights, bubble machine putting bubbles in the dance floor, some Chinese geezer singing My Way, all the Chinese tourists drunk as hell, no fun at all for us....but the Chinese tourist are having a great time and want to return tomorrow night. The bar / restaurant in on a street with no view of the water. Who cares? We live on an island. Who wants to see the water from the man beach bars when you can eat set menu in a neon lit bar with drum machine band and someone singing (very emotionally) Celine Dion. Sigh..... All the Western expats are at the beach front Nipa hut airy bar where there is a great cover band playing classic rock songs. Ocean breeze. Cheap drinks. Great vibe. No one from the expat bar would ever set foot in the Chinese bar. And yet, the Chinese bar is packed every night. Some day the Chinese will take over the expat bar, and then that's the end of the island for us.