And we mean that literally. The Chinese National Tourist Administration has launched an app to help visitors find the nearest public facilities quickly.
Zhao Wei, a Xiamen tour guide who says it’s been embarrassing when he can’t find toilets for his tour groups, told reporters “It only takes seconds to locate nearby toilets after opening the app.”
The app, which covers all of China’s highest-level tourist attractions and about 70% so far of the second-level ones, also provides directions and information about nearby sites—as well as the way to over half a million toilets. “We need to keep pace with the toilet revolution and facilitate it with technologies, thus benefiting tourists in a practical way,” said an employee of the CNTA.
You’d think that something as common as a Toilet would be easy to find as we travel the world. But the smallest room has so many different names when we travel.
1 Banheiro
2 Banjoja
3 Bañu
4 Bean-Jacks
5 Big White Phone
6 Biffy
7 Bog
8 Bowl
9 Can
10 Cesso
11 Cèsuŏ
12 Chamber Pot
13 Chiottes
14 Choo
15 Chunder Box
16 Cloakroom
17 Coalfabias
18 Comfort Room
19 Comfort Station
20 Commode
21 Convenience
22 Cloakroom
23 CR
24 Crapper
25 Crane
26 The Dunny
27 Dunnekin
28 El Baño
29 Facilities
30 Forakers
31 Gabinetto
32 Garderobe
33 Gardyloo
34 God of Poo
35 Head
36 Hopper
37 House of Ease
38 House of Office
39 Huuschen
40 Il Bagno
41 Jakes
42 Jax
43 Jericho
44 Jerry
45 John
46 Johnny House
47 Karsy
48 Kamot
49 Khazi
50 Latrine
51 Lav
52 Lavatory
53 Lavvy
54 Little Boys Room
55 Little Girls Room
56 London
57 Loo
58 Long Drop
59 Necessarium
60 Necessary
61 Netty
62 Outhouse
63 Oval Office
64 Pan
65 Porcelain Throne
66 Porcelain God
67 Po
68 Pool
69 Pot
70 Potty
71 Powder room
72 Place of easement
73 Privy
74 Reading Room
75 Restroom
76 El Retrete
77 Sanitarios
78 Seat
79 Los Servicios
80 Small house
81 Stool
82 S̄uk̄hā
83 Swanie
84 Thunder Mug
85 Thunder Box
86 Toilet
87 Toilette
88 Tualet
89 The Bogs
90 The Gents
91 The Ladies
92 The Office
93 The Smallest Room
94 Throne
95 Throne Room
96 Toire
97 The Vin
98 W.C.
99 Wash room
100 Water Closet
101 White Hart Room