What if the tour guide forces tourists to shop?

Generally speaking, mandatory consumption tour guides are from low-cost groups, old-age groups or small groups with more than ten people. Such a group usually has one or two tour guides. If the tour guide does not follow the itinerary plan and pulls the tourists to the shopping mall or shopping point, it will promote or force the tourists to shop. Then, at this time, the simplest and most effective method can be used, that is, everyone unites to refuse the tour guide. Generally speaking, all "villains" are afraid of United people.

● The second measure: keep the evidence to ensure safety.

Usually the tour guide will unite with the people at the shopping point. If you don't spend money and want to report it, they will call out "thugs" to trouble passengers. At this time, you should first calm down and protect your personal safety.

The correct way is to try to choose some cheap goods to buy and deal with these "thugs". In this process, you should secretly record or shoot videos with your mobile phone, collect product invoices, remember the names of shops at shopping points and other information, keep all the evidence of forced shopping, call the police or call the hotline when you leave the shopping point to ensure your own safety.

● The third measure: Say no loudly!

When someone yells at you, you should respond louder and more seriously. This kind of shouting is the best way to respond to the tour guide without endangering his own safety. When he sees that you are not the kind of person who is easily bullied, he will also become timid. This kind of shouting also has a certain effect.

● The fourth measure: leave the team immediately.

If you meet a tour guide who forces tourists to shop, you can basically be sure that your trip will be a failure and imperfect, then you can contact the travel agency at this time and ask for withdrawal and compensation.

If this trip is booked on a third-party travel platform, you can go directly to the platform to find customer service and apply to the travel agency for arbitration, because any regular travel agency must protect tourists and must not force or deceive tourists.

If the tour guide forces the tourists to spend money, the tour guide card shall be revoked.

Many people have encountered forced consumption when traveling with a group. On the surface, some travel agencies don't force tourists to spend money, but they do it secretly on the pretext that they can't catch up with the time by ropeway or cruise at their own expense. The routine of compulsory consumption is that travel agencies mislead tourists through false advertising or induce tourists to participate in tourism activities through unreasonable low prices. Once the tourists set foot on the trip, they will get illegitimate benefits such as kickbacks by arranging shopping or paying for other travel projects.

Compulsory consumption not only harms consumers' rights and interests, but also causes many unstable factors and even illegal and criminal incidents, which has been explicitly prohibited by the state. According to the provisions of the Tourism Law, tourists have the right to choose their own tourism products and services, and have the right to refuse the compulsory trading behavior of tour operators. However, some travel agencies are still desperate because of ignorance. Therefore, before traveling, tourists must choose the tourist routes launched by influential and well-received travel agencies, and don't be greedy and cheap, and choose unreliable low-cost groups. In case of consumption trap and infringement, we should dare to refuse, keep evidence of rights protection, and respond to relevant departments in time on the premise of ensuring personal safety.