Does it violate the tourism law for tour guides to collect tips during the tour guide service?

Strictly speaking, tour guides should not charge tips to tourists. In China's tourism law, there are provisions on tipping. When providing services for travel agencies and tourists, tour guides must pay a certain amount of tour fees (tour guide service fees), of which tips should be included in the tour guide service fees. According to the specific contract content, you can even mark the daily tip price and number of days. If there is such an express provision in the contract, it is illegal for the tour guide to force or imply the tourists to tip during the tour. However, in China tradition, there is no such thing as tipping. A foreigner tipping a service provider is often his personal affirmation and recognition of the service behavior of the service provider. Giving more and giving less is entirely voluntary, but after a long time, tipping has become a bit stale and has become a source of income for some service providers. No matter whether your service is good or bad, if you don't give it, you will feel "insulted". Just like many tourists travel to some countries in Southeast Asia, they have to prepare change in advance to tip the staff when they pass through the customs, and they don't want to lose others. Therefore, whether at home or abroad, tipping is voluntary in principle because of your recognition and satisfaction with the other party's service, but in real life, you should master the scale so as not to affect the good mood of travel because of this small amount of money.

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