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Swiss railway posts 'how-to' toilet signs for Asian tourists

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Fed up with having to clean up messes in the public toilets, a Swiss railway company has come up with a series of graphic illustrations for visitors from Asia and the Middle East to instruct them how to sit on a toilet seat.

The pictograms, that have appeared on trains in the popular tourist destination of Mount Rigi in the Swiss Alps, instruct users to sit on toilet seats rather than to squat on them and to discard used toilet paper in the lavatory and not in the waste bin.

"It happens that guests mount the toilet seats to do their business - and sometimes they don't know where to put the toilet paper," said Roger Joss, director of marketing for the Mount Rigi railway at Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland.

The Swiss tourist board has also accused foreign tourists of defecating in the shower.
"Tourists from the Gulf region or Asian countries are not very aware of our way of living. It's happened that people relieve themselves in the shower rather than in the toilet," Marcel Furer, head of the regional tourist office, was quoted as saying by the Daily Express.

Switzerland, which is famous for its cleanliness, is doing its best to teach new visitors Western toilet etiquette.

Switzerland is not the only country cracking down on the issue.

In March last year, Lloyds Bank's Old Broad Street office in central London also put up instructions telling foreign staff how to use the loo, with details such as 'sit on the toilet - do not stand on it', and 'please flush it with your hand and not your foot'.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/487599/swiss-railway-posts-toilet-signs.html
 
Swiss railways now gets ISO certification. Display work instructions with pictures to educate and ensure 'work' is done the right way.

Lloyod's bank must revise its recruitment and training policies!

Some American members of our forum were critical of their Indian guests for poor toilet habits. They now have a solution!
 
Indian tourism money is not cheap and has to be earned truly by foreign countries . indians with their toilet practices come along with it.

Indians cannot change for their american hosts . They are to be accepted as they are.

Because we are like that only.lol
 
Already there is murmur in medical circles that squatting is better than sitting. And special stools(!) available for retrofit.

Swiss can provide separate toilets for Asians and Caucasians, but then it is racism!
 
Many traditional senior citizens not comfortable with with commode get it retro fitted to enable squatting.

They claim it facilitates bowel movement.

When one goes on tours one is careful to choose places to stay which are senior citizen friendly.

Many hotels these days provide glass see through baths with hand shower . many traditional types do not feel comfortable with such things. plumbing with modern

fittings also a pain with many turning knobs the wrong way ,getting scalded by unexpected hot water shower. Many indian hotels wrongly colour code with cold water

with red .Housekeeping does this bungling many times. sometimes , it takes a lot of time for hot water to come out of hot taps- I have been told many times to throw

first two buckets of water then hot water will flow in hot tap in big hotels at off season times of low occupancy
 
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