Can the tour group not go shopping?

I met a tourist shopping group, but I didn't meet a compulsory shopping group. The final result was OK.

A recent news report said that Xiao Min and his friends signed up for a 6-day and 5-night tour, and their tour fee was only 65,438+0, 580 yuan. Tour guides refer to every tourist as a pick-up attendant, in order to grasp the home address of tourists and intimidate them into shopping. Tourists are divided into three consumption levels: 3,000-8,000 working-class people, 8,000-20,000 white-collar workers and 20,000-654,300 fine products.

Boy, this tour guide must have broken the law, and he dared to threaten citizens' personal data. Isn't this a more serious crime?

This reminds me of what happened when my family took part in several shopping trips. I remember that it was around 2008. My mother took my cousin and me to Guilin to play, and our three children were still on vacation in middle school. At that time, we signed up for a tour group.

As the saying goes, Guilin's landscape is the best in the world.

I have to say that Guilin's landscape is still very beautiful. What impressed me most during my several days' trip was to visit the Lijiang River by boat, which was really slow. Other scenic spots, as long as they are on land, are particularly lively. It's been many years, and I can't remember the specific itinerary. I only remember being dragged around by the tour guide for 3-4 times, and taking us to buy local products on the last day.

There are jade shops, health care products shops and all kinds of shopping shops we want. Because I have never met a shopping group during my trip, I have not prepared much. At that time, the whole family didn't have a credit card, and everyone only brought a few hundred dollars in cash for emergency. I remember only buying a bunch of colored glasses in the jade shop.

The experience of this trip was really bad, but the guide didn't force us to shop. He just took us to the shopping place, and then all kinds of good words advised us to buy things. Later, because we didn't have much money with us, the tour guide simply asked us to sit in the car and wait for them to finish shopping. I feel that the tour guide is ok!

Later, my mother went to Hong Kong for a visit on 20 16. There is also a shopping session, and the experience is not bad. The tour guide didn't force everyone to buy things, and some didn't remind everyone to buy things. Later, my mother bought two watches, jade bracelets and a video camera. On the whole, it's okay!

Although I have never met a compulsory shopping tour group, I have also seen some news similar to Xiao Min's experience. Once I saw a customer complaining about a tour group because the tour group forced them to go shopping. If there are people who don't buy things, the tour guide will cynically say that they are at the door and won't leave until they buy them. When they go home, they will report to the local government.

China's Tourism Law clearly stipulates that:

Article 35 Paragraph 1 Travel agencies shall not cheat tourists by organizing tourism activities at unreasonably low prices, and obtain illegitimate interests such as kickbacks by arranging shopping or paying for other tourism projects. Article 98 If a travel agency violates the provisions of Article 35 of this Law, it shall be ordered by the tourism authorities to make corrections, confiscate its illegal income, order it to suspend business for rectification, and impose a fine of not less than 30,000 yuan but not more than 300,000 yuan; If the illegal income is more than 300,000 yuan, a fine of more than one time and less than five times the illegal income shall be imposed; If the circumstances are serious, the business license of the travel agency shall be revoked; The directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be confiscated, and a fine of more than 2,000 yuan and less than 20,000 yuan shall be imposed, and the tour guide card shall be suspended or revoked.

Therefore, when you encounter forced shopping or coercion while traveling, you should take up legal weapons to protect your rights. Even if you can't report it in time during the tour, you can choose to report the problem to the relevant departments after the tour to safeguard your rights and interests!