20 16 what pitfalls should Shanghainese pay attention to when traveling with a group in Japan?

Japanese tourists to China believe that Japan is an honest society and will not be cheated. In addition, I took part in a group tour of a so-called regular travel agency, but I was cheated, and I was covered in blood.

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The first trick: shopping fraud in duty-free shops

NHK TV reporters tracked the buses of several travel agencies and found that the "duty-free shops" where China tourists were taken to shop were not home appliance stores or drugstores run by some big Japanese commercial companies (these stores are basically tax-free), but were taken to a remote building that few people usually know about, and arranged to shop in the "duty-free shops" there, and were told in advance that "this is the cheapest and safest place".

Who runs these duty-free shops? Most of them are run by China people (including Hong Kong and Taiwan people) and Koreans.

NHK reporters investigated a kind of health food that tourists in China bought more. The average price of tablets sold by big Japanese companies is 1 1 yen, but in these "duty-free shops", it is as high as 69 yen. In other words, the prices of these "duty-free shops" are actually six times higher than those of regular Japanese shops outside.

A tour guide testified that the original price was only 2,000 yen, but it was sold to China tourists for 20,000 yen.

These "duty-free shops" employ a large number of employees from China, and print advertisements exaggerating the efficacy of healthy foods, promoting that these healthy foods can cure various diseases or improve IQ, and luring China tourists to pay for these windfall goods. Of course, in Japan, selling healthy food as medicine is a criminal act that violates the Japanese Drug Administration Law.

Then, why do duty-free shops set the prices of goods so high? NHK revealed the inside story of the profit sharing of these duty-free shops: 50% is withheld by itself, 25% is distributed to travel agencies and 25% is distributed to tour guides.

Helpless language barrier, know nothing about east, west, north and south. Even in Japan, China tourists whose passports are taken away by tour guides are like lambs to be slaughtered in Japan. Travel agencies and tour guides can kill as much as they want.

Second, cheat the travel agency

Tourism fraud

For example, "five nights and six days tour to Japan", domestic travel agencies do not arrange flights that leave in the morning at all, but arrange flights that leave in the afternoon and arrive in Tokyo at night. As a result, tourists have no place to travel after arriving at Narita Airport in Tokyo, and they are directly taken to airport hotel for rest.

You know, "Tokyo Narita International Airport" is not in Tokyo, but in Chiba Prefecture. This distance is equivalent to the distance from Suzhou to the center of Shanghai. It takes an hour and a half to drive on the expressway.

As a result, domestic travel agencies in China charged tourists a day's money, while Japanese travel agencies didn't spend a day. The profits of this day were quietly divided up by the travel agencies of China and Japan. China tourists are just fools.

However, on the day of returning home, the travel agency specially arranged the morning flight, and took the tourists to airport hotel the night before, so that the tourists had no chance to travel and shop on the morning of returning home and were sent back directly. In this way, the so-called "five nights and six days tour of Japan" really stays in Japan for only four days.

Tourism fraud

Travel agencies often offer so-called "low-cost tours to Japan". The so-called "Japan Golden Tour Line" from Tokyo to Mount Fuji to Kyoto Osaka costs only 4,000 yuan.

However, when tourists arrive in Japan, they find that Japanese tour guides have to collect money wherever they go. It costs 654.38+00000 yen (about RMB 800 yuan) to go to Disneyland and 4000 yen (about RMB 320 yuan) to go shopping in Ginza. As a result, in a few days, the money actually paid to travel agencies and tour guides was 1 times more than the travel expenses, exceeding 8,000 yuan.

Entering from Tokyo Narita Airport, passing through Tokyo, Mount Fuji and Hakone-CHO, going to Kyoto and Osaka, and leaving from Kansai Airport, it is called the "Golden Line".

NHK TV revealed in the program that many tourists don't want to spend another 4,000 yen, as long as they cancel the opportunity to go shopping in Ginza, but the tour guide threatened the tourists: "If you don't go, we will inform the Japanese Embassy, and you won't get a visa to come to Japan in the future."

Finally, the tour guide threw the tourists who really didn't want to pay for shopping in Ginza directly into Hibiya Park in Tokyo, which is far away from Ginza, so that tourists who don't know Japanese and tourists who are in the park can bask in the sun.

NHK pointed out in the report that these travel agencies that receive tourists from China are basically those run by people from Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province and Hong Kong. In a word, they are all "China Travel Agency".

Cheating for the third time: the tour guide cheated.

Shopping fraud

Almost all Japanese tourists from China were put on the tourist bus, and the tour guide took away the microphone. The first sentence is: "Although Japan is a country ruled by law, there are also liars. Therefore, you must go to the duty-free shop to buy things, where things are the cheapest and safest. "

As a result, all tourists trusted the tour guide, and the next day they were taken to a remote place that was not a commercial street at all, and went to a so-called "duty-free shop" opened in a building to buy things.

However, tourists never imagined that the price of goods in "duty-free shops" here was several times higher than that in ordinary Japanese shops, and the tour guide also demanded a high rebate from the duty-free shops according to the total shopping price of tourists, with the rebate ratio as high as 25%.

Another means of exploiting tourists is to make excuses and extort money from tourists in disguise. In order to encourage the enthusiasm of tour guides, travel agencies in Japan hand over the meals and itinerary of tourists to the tour guides themselves for revenue and expenditure management.

Therefore, there is the problem that tour guides slaughter tourists indiscriminately. For example, if you shop in Ginza, you will have to charge an extra 4,000 yen per person. If a group of 30 people travels to Ginza alone, the tour guide can earn 6.5438+0.2 million yen (about RMB 6.5438+0.00 million). At the same time, the cost of food and beverage for tourists is also the usual practice of these tour guides.

A tour guide admitted to the NHK reporter that within one month, the income of tourists' shopping rebates and various fees charged by various excuses could reach 6.5438+0 million yen (about 80,000 yuan).

The tour guide said that unlicensed tour guides in Hong Kong and Taiwan can bring back millions of yen after working for three months.

Qualification fraud

Japan's Tourism Law stipulates that tour guides must pass a rigorous examination and obtain the "Interpreter (Tour Guide Qualification Certificate)" issued by the government before they can take up their posts.

At the same time, the law stipulates that tour guides are not allowed to take kickbacks in any name, and offenders will be arrested. However, NHK reporters asked 20 tour guides with China tour groups in front of the Japanese Imperial Palace. As a result, only 1 person has the qualification certificate, and others are "unlicensed tour guides".

According to NHK, two thirds of the tour guides are from Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong.

So, where did these "unlicensed tour guides" come from? According to NHK's investigation, most people come from Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong, and some come from Chinese mainland.

Some people who are engaged in tour guides in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong have the advantage that they can stay in Japan for three months with their passports on arrival visas, and they are linked with travel agency bosses, working illegally in Japan and earning high incomes as undocumented tour guides.

Generally, a person working in Japan for three months can earn more than 3 million yen. And this money is obviously the hard-earned money of China tourists.