一家接待內地訪港團的旅行社，驅旅遊巴帶團員到處參觀一整天後，在一家餐廳招待他們吃一頓飯，但席間導遊看過新聞後大為緊張，之後不停打電話，出了一額頭汗還很焦急，大約半小時他向團員宣布：
「真的很對不起，剛才看電視才知道我們今晚入住的酒店，今天已經被地產商每個房間分拆出售，打電話給另外二十多家酒店也沒有房間，所以今晚要委屈大家在大巴上睡一晚了。」
團員很不滿跟他理論：「別忽悠我們，明明沒訂房就不要搞這個團嘛！你搞不定我就馬上跳海！」
這時候餐廳內另一個內地顧客站起來說：「老兄別忙，導遊沒耍你們，我剛才一口氣買入那家酒店的十個房間，你們有誰要住，直接跟我租就行了！」
參考閱讀（1）、（2） 、（3）
An inbound travel agency in Hong Kong was responsible for a tour group visiting from the Mainland, and after a full day of touring on a coach the tour group was treated to a meal in a restaurant. However, the tour guide looked very anxious upon watching TV news in the restaurant and was frantically making phone calls all the time. After half an hour he had some bad news to announce: ‘I am extremely sorry, and I didn’t know about this until watching the news just now, but the hotel rooms where we were planning to stay tonight have all been sold today by its developer. I was making phone calls to 20 other hotels, but none of them could offer any free rooms. So I’m afraid you will have to put up with sleeping on the coach for tonight.’
Of course the tourists were none too pleased and one of them argued with the tour guide: ‘Don’t fool us with this pathetic excuse. I know that you haven’t booked any room for us and you shouldn’t have taken on this tour if you haven’t got room for us. If you don’t get this solved, I’m going to jump into the harbour to protest!’
Another customer in the restaurant, also from the Mainland, decided to make himself known at that point and said, ‘Take it easy, man. The tour guide wasn’t lying to you all. I just snapped up 10 rooms of the hotel, and if any of you want to stay in those rooms, you can arrange it with me on the spot now!’
For your background: see this and this
黃太：陳太，你這次到廣西玩，買了甚麼手信呀？
陳太：你看我買了多少奶粉！
黃太：怎麼跑到老遠買奶粉？不重嗎？
陳太：你也沒想到我這個旅行團多好，安排最後一天在南寧市購物和自由活動，我隨便走進一家商店，竟然給我看到滿貨架奶粉，全部香港進口，應有盡有，既然我平常用的牌仔在香港很難買到，我便一口氣買幾罐貯貨了！
參考閱讀
Mrs. Wong: Hey Mrs. Chan, how was your tour to Guangxi Province? Did you buy many souvenirs?
Mrs. Chan: Look at how much infant formula milk I’ve bought!
Mrs. Wong: What? You bought these all the way from there? Weren't there other things to buy?
Mrs. Chan: Well, I’ve never thought how good my packaged tour was. We had the last day free for shopping and own activities in Nanning. I walked into a random shop and who would have thought there were shelves stacked full with infant formula milk, I mean all brands that you normally see in Hong Kong and directly imported from Hong Kong too. Since I have so much difficulty buying the brand that I need here, I decided to snap up several tins of them!
For your background
導遊甲：唉，很煩人。
導遊乙：怎麼了？
導遊甲：我後天要帶團到北京，但聽說又霧霾了，好像還是連續幾天，到時坐大巴甚麼景點也看不見，團員又要發牢騷、找我發洩了。
導遊乙：我有辦法，你就在車上播我這些預先拍好的景點錄像，你看大藍天，空氣多好，影像有多清晰！
導遊甲：但你的片子有點舊吧？
導遊乙：那沒關係，反正霧霾天氣下，能見度50米也不夠，他們甚麼都不會看到，怎樣知道是新是舊呢？
Tour guide A: I’m not looking forward to taking my next tour.
Tour guide B: How come?
Tour guide A: The day after tomorrow I’m taking a tour to Beijing, but I heard that it’s hit by smog again, and most likely for a few days in a row. Then no one can see anything from the coach, and the clients are going to vent their frustration on me again.
Tour guide B: Don’t worry, take this with you and play this on the coach. It has all the famous landmarks filmed on bright sunny days with no air pollution. Look at how clear the video clip is!
Tour guide A: But don’t the landmarks look a bit old in your video?
Tour guide B: Who will know and who can tell? The visibility will be less than 50 metres with the smog and no one will see anything. Trust me, it will work a treat.
團員很不滿跟他理論：「別忽悠我們，明明沒訂房就不要搞這個團嘛！你搞不定我就馬上跳海！」
這時候餐廳內另一個內地顧客站起來說：「老兄別忙，導遊沒耍你們，我剛才一口氣買入那家酒店的十個房間，你們有誰要住，直接跟我租就行了！」
參考閱讀（1）、（2） 、（3）
An inbound travel agency in Hong Kong was responsible for a tour group visiting from the Mainland, and after a full day of touring on a coach the tour group was treated to a meal in a restaurant. However, the tour guide looked very anxious upon watching TV news in the restaurant and was frantically making phone calls all the time. After half an hour he had some bad news to announce: ‘I am extremely sorry, and I didn’t know about this until watching the news just now, but the hotel rooms where we were planning to stay tonight have all been sold today by its developer. I was making phone calls to 20 other hotels, but none of them could offer any free rooms. So I’m afraid you will have to put up with sleeping on the coach for tonight.’
Of course the tourists were none too pleased and one of them argued with the tour guide: ‘Don’t fool us with this pathetic excuse. I know that you haven’t booked any room for us and you shouldn’t have taken on this tour if you haven’t got room for us. If you don’t get this solved, I’m going to jump into the harbour to protest!’
Another customer in the restaurant, also from the Mainland, decided to make himself known at that point and said, ‘Take it easy, man. The tour guide wasn’t lying to you all. I just snapped up 10 rooms of the hotel, and if any of you want to stay in those rooms, you can arrange it with me on the spot now!’
For your background: see this and this
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黃太：陳太，你這次到廣西玩，買了甚麼手信呀？
陳太：你看我買了多少奶粉！
黃太：怎麼跑到老遠買奶粉？不重嗎？
陳太：你也沒想到我這個旅行團多好，安排最後一天在南寧市購物和自由活動，我隨便走進一家商店，竟然給我看到滿貨架奶粉，全部香港進口，應有盡有，既然我平常用的牌仔在香港很難買到，我便一口氣買幾罐貯貨了！
參考閱讀
Mrs. Wong: Hey Mrs. Chan, how was your tour to Guangxi Province? Did you buy many souvenirs?
Mrs. Chan: Look at how much infant formula milk I’ve bought!
Mrs. Wong: What? You bought these all the way from there? Weren't there other things to buy?
Mrs. Chan: Well, I’ve never thought how good my packaged tour was. We had the last day free for shopping and own activities in Nanning. I walked into a random shop and who would have thought there were shelves stacked full with infant formula milk, I mean all brands that you normally see in Hong Kong and directly imported from Hong Kong too. Since I have so much difficulty buying the brand that I need here, I decided to snap up several tins of them!
For your background
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導遊甲：唉，很煩人。
導遊乙：怎麼了？
導遊甲：我後天要帶團到北京，但聽說又霧霾了，好像還是連續幾天，到時坐大巴甚麼景點也看不見，團員又要發牢騷、找我發洩了。
導遊乙：我有辦法，你就在車上播我這些預先拍好的景點錄像，你看大藍天，空氣多好，影像有多清晰！
導遊甲：但你的片子有點舊吧？
導遊乙：那沒關係，反正霧霾天氣下，能見度50米也不夠，他們甚麼都不會看到，怎樣知道是新是舊呢？
Tour guide A: I’m not looking forward to taking my next tour.
Tour guide B: How come?
Tour guide A: The day after tomorrow I’m taking a tour to Beijing, but I heard that it’s hit by smog again, and most likely for a few days in a row. Then no one can see anything from the coach, and the clients are going to vent their frustration on me again.
Tour guide B: Don’t worry, take this with you and play this on the coach. It has all the famous landmarks filmed on bright sunny days with no air pollution. Look at how clear the video clip is!
Tour guide A: But don’t the landmarks look a bit old in your video?
Tour guide B: Who will know and who can tell? The visibility will be less than 50 metres with the smog and no one will see anything. Trust me, it will work a treat.
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