Do travel agencies have to pay for tourist guide cards now?

According to the formal procedure, you have to sign a contract with the travel agency to get the tourism bureau, and the tourism bureau will issue you a guide card. If you don't scream, don't get a tour guide card. Generally speaking, they are affiliated with tour guide service companies, and the annual management fee should be around 300. After you call, the company will help you change your tour guide qualification certificate into a tour guide IC card, that is, a tour guide card.

The local tour guide service center can change the tour guide qualification certificate into a tour guide certificate. However, the management fee should be paid every year, and the annual review should be conducted at the end of each year. The qualification certificate has not been changed into a tour guide card within 3 years and needs to be reissued.

Extended data:

Tour guide card (including temporary tour guide card) is a legal certificate that the holder is registered as a tour guide according to law and can engage in tour guide activities. Tour guides should wear a tour guide card when conducting tour guide activities. Those who engage in tour guide activities without a tour guide card shall be punished according to the relevant provisions of the Regulations.

In accordance with the relevant provisions of these measures, the tourist guide card is valid nationwide.

The tourist guide card is only for the holder's own use, and shall not be forged, altered, lent or traded.

The tourist guide card is designated by the National Tourism Administration (Annex I) and uniformly printed, and issued by the tourism administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government (hereinafter referred to as "provincial tourism administrative departments").

Provincial tourism administrative departments may entrust prefecture-level listed tourism administrative departments to issue tourist guide cards on their behalf as needed. If the provincial tourism administrative department entrusts the prefecture-level tourism administrative department to issue the tourist guide card on its behalf, it shall submit a written report to the National Tourism Administration for the record at the same time as making the entrustment decision.

References:

Tour guide card-Baidu encyclopedia