A series of graphic illustrations has been placed at several popular tourist spots in Switzerland to instruct visitors from Asia, especially Southeast Asia, on how to use a toilet seat, reports the Shanghai-based online media outlet the Paper.
These signs, now populating train stations around Mount Rigi railway in central Switzerland, detail every step in using a western toilet seat. For example, it tells users to sit rather than squat on toilet seats and to throw used toilet paper into the toilet rather than in the bin.
There have been guests that mount the toilet seats to do their business and do not know where to put the toilet paper, said Roger Joss, director of marketing for the railway, during an interview with Swiss media 20 Minuten.
Some visitors from Korea and China, interviewed by 20 Minuten, said the instructions were unnecessary as they already know how to use a toilet.
These problems do not come from one particular country but individual visitors. Most Chinese tourists are somewhat familiar with Swiss culture and are able to adapt quickly. Mount Rigi welcomes more Chinese tourists in the future, said the railway's chief operation officer Jorg Lustenberger in a phone interview with Shanghai's The Paper.
Poster Comment:
But scientists say siting is also wrong.