I am a student. When I was traveling in Yunnan, I was forced to spend money by the tour guide.

Tour guides are forced to spend money. What should we do?

The general practice is as follows:

(1) negotiate with the operator;

(2) Request the mediation of consumers' associations;

(3) complain to the relevant administrative department;

(4) According to the arbitration agreement with the operator, apply to an arbitration institution for arbitration;

(5) bring a lawsuit to the people's court. In the process of traveling, we met with compulsory consumption. After the tour, we asked the travel agency to handle the return formalities for us and pay the return money in advance.

Relevant laws and regulations

In addition, the tour guide forced consumption and was suspected of violating the criminal law to force transactions.

Article 226 Crime of forced trading: Whoever commits one of the following acts by violence or threat, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined:

(1) buying or selling goods by force;

(2) Forcing others to provide or accept services;

(three) forcing others to participate in or withdraw from the tender and auction;

(4) Forcing others to transfer or purchase stocks, bonds or other assets of companies or enterprises;

(5) Forcing others to participate in or withdraw from specific business activities.

When the tour guide makes compulsory consumption, the tourists conduct evidence investigation. After purchasing goods, you can contact other tourists to report to the police, which affects a large number of people and helps to identify the bad social impact. The police need to file a case to investigate the compulsory trading behavior of tour guides, and finally the people's court will impose criminal penalties on such tour guides.