Are there any traps in low-price travel to Sichuan?

In some scenic spots in Sichuan, travel agencies and shopping stores collude, and rebates for tourism shopping are very common. Rebates for silverware are as high as 60%, and rebates for other crystal, silk, and yak meat are also as high as 50%.

At the end of April 2018, the media came to Chengdu and found that many people were distributing tourism advertisements to tourists in Jinli, Kuanzhai Alley, Du Fu Thatched Cottage and other scenic spots. ?

These travel advertisements are all about the most popular tourist routes in Sichuan, and the prices are super attractive, such as:

Emei and Leshan Fugui two-day tour special price is 150 yuan;

One-day tour to Dujiangyan and Qingcheng Mountain is priced at RMB 80;

Three-day tour to Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong is priced at RMB 200. ?

According to the 2018 Sichuan tourist route reference price released by the Sichuan Provincial Travel Agency Association:

The reference price for a two-day trip to Leshan in Emei during the shoulder season is 500 yuan;

The reference price for a one-day trip to Qingcheng Mountain in Dujiangyan during the shoulder season is 260 yuan;

The three-day tour by Huanglong Bus in Jiuzhaigou is 680 yuan.

In 2017, Sichuan Province investigated and dealt with 112 cases involving travel administrative penalties, fined 3.4338 million yuan, suspended 24 travel agencies for rectification, and revoked the business licenses of 5 travel agencies.

How is the tourism environment in Sichuan Province in 2018? Have unreasonably low-priced tours really disappeared? On May Day this year, the media once again came to Sichuan to experience many popular tourist routes. ?

As early as 2015, the National Tourism Administration stipulated that if the price of tourism products is more than 30% lower than the honest tourism guide price announced by the local tourism department or tourism industry association, it is an unreasonable low-price tour. ?

For a two-day tour of Emei Leshan, the ticket price for the two scenic spots alone costs 365 yuan per person. This does not include round-trip fares, accommodation fees, meals, and tour guides. Such a loss-making business, Do travel agencies really only charge cost prices? When questioned by reporters, the travel agency staff revealed the reason for the low price.

On April 19, 2018, just before the media came to Chengdu, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that it would continue to carry out nationwide tourism market order rectification actions to target "unreasonable low-price travel", forced or Intensify efforts to combat problems such as forced shopping and consumption in disguise.

The national ban is still in our ears, but why are there so many people on the streets of Chengdu advertising unreasonably low-priced tours? Is there no one in charge?

Sure enough, as soon as we got on the bus, the tour guide announced that this time we were participating in a shopping group.

Tour guide: Our team is a standard quality shopping group. Please listen, everyone, you can sit on it for a few hundred yuan and enjoy team services of more than 2,000 yuan. This is a government subsidy. It is a market-oriented behavior of the travel agency towards the government. You have shopping needs.

Another tour guide publicly told everyone that tour guides receive commissions when tourists shop.

Tour guide: Everyone, let’s go shopping for these things. Today I have a commission, which is what you call a rebate. If you spend 100 yuan today, I will get 3 to 5 yuan, so That's 3%-5%.

Article 35 of the "Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China" clearly stipulates that travel agencies shall not organize tourism activities at unreasonably low prices to deceive tourists, and arrange shopping or pay separately for travel. Projects obtain kickbacks and other illegitimate benefits.