How to avoid the "pit" during the National Day holiday?

The upcoming National Day holiday "bumped into" the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the series of eight-day holidays made the tourism market extremely hot. According to the data released by the National Tourism Administration, during the eight-day long holiday, the tourism market will receive 765,438+10,000 people, which means that more than half of China people will go out for vacation.

Some interviewed tourists said that almost all the outbound tour groups they experienced arranged shopping spots. Bird, a Wuhan native who has traveled to Japan, South Korea and Thailand, said that shopping with a group is an essential part, especially in popular destinations. "Although the price of local duty-free goods is indeed lower than that in China, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false."

The reporter found out that in addition to compulsory shopping, there have been many problems exposed by outbound travel in recent years.

-"Nightmare" group meal. Sun Gang, a Beijinger who recently returned from Thailand, told reporters that despite the shopping problems, the group meal was even more unsatisfactory. "You can't imagine how bad the group buffet arranged in those days was. The point is that there is nothing to eat. Eating in a floating restaurant, eleven people have only six dishes at a table, hundreds of people are noisy, the restaurant environment is poor, the ingredients are not fresh, and the rice is very hard. Basically, they took two bites and fled. "

-The travel agency lost contact. Recently, Beijing Qingyang Wuzhou Travel Agency Co., Ltd. sold illegal travel products and suddenly closed its doors, leaving people empty. The reporter's investigation found that some travel agencies that "run the road" engage in unreasonable low-cost tours in the form of "paying a deposit to send a tour", and many consumers pay a "deposit" ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan, expecting to travel abroad in the form of "income" every year, but the travel agency lost a lot.

Some interviewed insiders pointed out that Southeast Asia, Japan and other places are the most likely destinations for tourists to "bonus hunter". "Like the tourist chaos in China, overseas destination guides also collect kickbacks from shopping stores." An outbound tour leader told reporters that in Thailand, for example, shopping places such as jewelry center, latex center and crocodile skin shop arranged during the group tour will be led by tour guides, but they are all landmark attractions like the Grand Palace, and the tour time is very short.

On the one hand, it is to reduce the time cost and put more tourists' time on shopping and watching performances. On the other hand, some travel agencies will also reduce the cost of capital in all aspects. According to an industry insider, at present, the arrangement of outbound tour group restaurants in the market is generally a group restaurant signed by travel agencies and land agencies. After the travel agency and the restaurant settled together, there were a lot of tricks. The food label may only be less than 20 yuan per capita, and the quality of the food cannot be guaranteed. Moreover, the tour route will not reveal what to eat and where to eat.

The increasingly fierce competition in the outbound travel market has also made some travel agencies take risks and attract tourists by bundling sales and "paying a deposit to travel". In the end, some of them were unsustainable because of business problems, and some simply rolled up the money and left.

Be fully prepared and avoid the "pit" reasonably.

Sun Wenjie, a lawyer in Yunnan, said that although the Tourism Law explicitly prohibits unreasonable low-cost tours, the legislative purpose is to protect consumers and respect the voluntary principle of concluding contracts and consumers' right to choose independently. Many travel agencies persuade consumers to include voluntary shopping clauses in their contracts for various reasons, such as low-cost group shopping. When traveling abroad, it often happens that the land agency refuses to let go of shopping and repeatedly publicizes brainwashing to force consumers to shop in disguise. On the one hand, this kind of behavior can not accurately define whether it belongs to compulsory shopping, on the other hand, consumers often worry about personal threats or injuries, and finally choose silence.

Sun Wenjie believes that after consumers sign relevant contracts with travel agencies, if travel agencies and land agencies have forced shopping or forced shopping in disguised form, consumers can take photos, videos and other related ways to obtain evidence. After returning to China, you can defend your rights according to the contractual agreement of both parties and relevant laws and regulations. If personal freedom is restricted and personal threats or injuries occur abroad, you can also get in touch with China embassies and consulates abroad.