The company organizes a trip to Guilin. In addition to arranging group activities, what common sense do you need to know and what do you need to pay attention to?

Guilin is a hot tourist city in the world. Guilin has rich tourism resources. Tourists from all over the country and even the world come here every day. Tourism is one of Guilin's pillar industries. Guilin's tourism industry is relatively developed and a highly competitive industry. There are many hotels, restaurants, tourist facilities, travel agencies and tourism-related employees. For tourists who come to Guilin for the first time, which travel agency to choose, or what kind of employees to choose to serve them, to prevent being deceived is also a problem that tourists often encounter. For this reason, we have compiled the following anti-fraud knowledge to introduce to you.

Beware of "Wild Horse Tour Guides" at stations and piers

A large number of unidentified people with various signboards gather at stations and piers and other passenger distribution centers, some selling tickets and some pulling hotels. They even have business cards from major travel agencies (which is simply a "blatant lie"), but they certainly do not have legal qualifications, but most of them have very strong sense of observation. He has the ability to cater to the customers he likes and is eloquent. First, he sells them at a high price. If that doesn't work, he then deceives them with a super low price. Once he succeeds, he immediately resells the customers and no one can find them in an instant. In fact, there are many problems here. Since they can take it at a loss and at a low price, they naturally have ways to rip off customers.

Beware of taxi traps

Some taxis wait around airports and some large hotels, waiting there, using some sweet words to deceive the trust of tourists to introduce accommodation and guests. Earn high commissions by dining in local restaurants and introducing guests to travel. There are also some taxi drivers who use sweet words to get close to the guests in the car, making common sense and asking about the hotels that the guests have booked in advance. Then he vowed to point out that the hotel booked by the guest was too expensive and that he could get a cheaper price. And when the guests believe it, he will try every means to change the guests to a lower-end hotel or room type to make a profit from it. The tourist attractions introduced by taxi drivers are also unreliable, mainly free, low-grade and high-rebate junk attractions in order to maximize profits. The tourist attractions introduced by taxi drivers often take the guests to the so-called international travel agency sales department to book tickets in order to gain the trust of the guests. However, the reservation prices for the guests brought by the taxi drivers are often much higher (the reason is that they have to earn the introduction fee, Otherwise, why would he be so kind as to drive you to book a discounted ticket?) Among them, following a taxi driver to eat fancy meals and participate in tours is the most risky, and once you find out that you have been deceived, you will have no way to complain. Because the taxi driver will claim that he took the guest there "at the guest's request". Guilin’s consumption level is not high. Various local snacks can be found at Zhongshan Road night market stalls, Zhengyang Road Pedestrian Street and snack restaurants on the main streets in the city. There is no need to ask a taxi driver to lead the way. Tourists are advised to be careful.

No good product is cheap

The saying "No good product is cheap" is also very suitable when used in tourism.

In terms of accommodation reservations and travel arrangements, taxi drivers have no advantage over regular travel agencies. All they can introduce are low-value artificial landscape projects and transportation vehicles without tourism qualifications and safety guarantees. The "Li River" tours they introduce are just some "black ships" or a section of ferries without any safety guarantees.

The Internet is a very transparent medium. There are many websites introducing Guilin tourism on the Internet, and the quotations for the same routes and attractions are also varied. Why? When tourists choose travel routes online, they should carefully check the specific attractions in the itinerary and whether the tickets for the attractions in the itinerary are included in the route price. Although some websites indicate a lot of content in the itinerary, they only indicate in an inconspicuous place the attraction tickets that are actually included in the price. Although some routes are cheap, they require customers to rush into shopping malls, 5-6 in a day. Of course, if you are a shopping fanatic, there is no harm in joining such a route. For another example, the prices on some websites look very cheap. If you take a closer look at the attractions, you will find that they are very cheap or even free attractions such as Xishan Mountain, Yushan Mountain, and Nanxi Mountain. In addition to natural and cultural scenery, there are also shopping stores. If you want to see classic must-see attractions, sorry, pay extra! (Here I am not belittling Guilin’s Xishan Mountain, Yushan Mountain, and Nanxi Mountain. These three mountains are actually three of the eight ancient scenic spots in Guilin, but their scenery, historical connotation, and popularity are not as good as those of the orthodox scenic spots. In addition, these three mountains are currently The park is actually the place to enter the store) For another example, if you are traveling by chartered car, when comparing prices, you must first find out what kind of car the travel agency uses, whether it is a commercial vehicle or a sedan, what is the condition of the car, and whether it is qualified for tourism operations. Does the car have insurance, and does the driver have a tourism qualification certificate? These are quite critical. If you package a "three-free vehicle", the price is of course much cheaper than a vehicle with complete licenses, because their operating costs are very low, they do not have to pay various taxes and fees, and they do not have a corporate entity. However, such a vehicle does not have any safety guarantee. If an accident occurs, the driver can escape immediately and you have no way to complain!

In short, there must be tricks to cheap, and there must be reasons to be expensive. Today, due to the unprecedented development of the Internet, the market is becoming increasingly transparent, and the era of tourism profiteering is long gone. Prices are determined by the market.

Some customers are always afraid of being ripped off if the price is too expensive, so they blindly pursue cheap prices, thinking that they won’t be ripped off if they are cheap, right? However, the opposite is true. The cheaper the group, the more the guests are like meat on the chopping board. Why? You think about it, people want to make money, so they pull you over so cheaply, but they haven’t made any money from you, or even lost money, how can they give up? In fact, we can calculate it like this: If you join a very cheap tourist route, visit a few unpopular attractions, and enter 5 shopping stores during the rest of the time, and stay in one shopping store for 1 hour, it will total 5 Although it was very cheap, I didn’t see what I should have seen. I was sorry for the round-trip air tickets; or I paid extra to see it. When I look back, I found that the money spent was more expensive than the expensive tour I saw at the beginning. Why bother? Woolen cloth?

Of course, if your travel budget is tight and you want to take part in a cheap tour, it doesn’t matter if you enter 5 stores, and you are determined not to pay extra, or you are not afraid of using a black car, then you can, as long as you have the intention in your heart. Just make sure the pole is clearly weighed.

Joining a group tour from the place of departure does not save money

Many tourists find it strange that the price of going directly to Guilin for a tour is even more expensive than joining a group tour at the place of departure. Some even came to the conclusion that it is better to join a group tour in Guilin than to directly join a group tour in Guilin. Such a conclusion is wrong in the vast majority of cases.

Some tourists think that they can get preferential "travel packages" by joining a group tour at the departure point. In fact, it is this kind of "travel packages" that is very deceptive. The cost of travel is mainly composed of accommodation, transportation, meals and attractions in the itinerary. Tourists should pay special attention to analyzing the content of scenic spots in the itinerary. The characteristic of out-of-town group tours in Guilin is the lack of scenic spots in the itinerary. In addition to the ones that have been marked, there will be many more self-funded items in the itinerary, so you need to constantly add points. , additional fees apply. If there is no additional charge, tourists may be in a very embarrassing and passive situation during their travels.

It is undeniable that tour groups can get more discounts on air tickets in certain seasons, but the benefits of this kind of discount are definitely first and foremost what the foreign tour groups themselves and tourists can really enjoy. The discounts are very few and even completely based on my imagination. If tour operators force local tour operators to receive tourists with "zero tour fee" or "negative tour fee", it will definitely cause serious damage to tourism consumers.

There is a very simple truth. The most common local itinerary is actually the most essential, classic and economical travel itinerary. This truth is almost universally applicable.