Why do tour guides have no basic salary?

1. Nowadays, most tour guides in many places are managed by tour guide service companies. Because the tour fee is extremely low, among the tour fees paid by tourists to travel agencies, the "tour guide service fee" actually goes into the pockets of travel agencies. Generally speaking, tour guides have no income at all without taking tours. Of course, the tour guide can go to a paid travel agency. As long as he pays the "professional deposit", he can get his salary from the travel agency every month. In fact, this salary is actually paid from the deposit they handed in, that is, they paid it themselves.

2. Sometimes, if a tour guide wants to take a tour group, he must pay a "headcount fee" to the travel agency according to the number of tourists in the group, which is usually tens of yuan. Besides the "headcount fee", we have to pay "Stamp charge" and so on. In addition, some tour guides will buy souvenirs from their own pockets to please their guests.

3. The tour guide's income mainly consists of "parking fee", shopping rebate, self-funded project rebate and increased scenic spot ticket rebate. According to the rules of tour guides, a tourist bus with more than 30 people can get a "parking fee" as long as it stops at the shopping point, regardless of whether the tourists of the bus buy anything or not; The goods at the shopping point usually return 20% ~ 30% of the turnover as a commission to the tour guides of shopping tourists; In terms of self-funded projects and increasing self-funded tourist attractions, tour guides will secretly increase project fees and ticket prices by 30% to 50%, which will become another channel for collecting money. These incomes are generally shared equally by tour guides and tour bus drivers. With such a tour group, the tour guide can earn at least a few hundred dollars, and if he meets generous tourists again, he may get considerable shopping rebates or tips.