How to see through the four major tourist traps?

Phenomenon: In the past, many travel agencies asked tourists to pay a deposit or security deposit when they traveled abroad, and advertised that they could enjoy travel concessions in this way. Typical cases include Haitao Travel, Qingyang Wuzhou Travel and Bula Travel.

Tips: The National Tourism Administration and the Beijing Tourism Commission have issued notices twice, prohibiting the direct collection of prepaid products and outbound travel deposits. At present, it has been explicitly prohibited to collect deposits. We should further instill this kind of consumption consciousness in tourists, and be especially careful about prepaid tourism products, because tourism enterprises that need to pay in advance may have a repayment crisis, or insufficient company capital may lead to the break of the capital chain.

Therefore, when purchasing tourism products, we must avoid this kind of prepayment trap. At present, the state has explicitly prohibited giving it to travel agencies or private accounts, but it must be managed by a third party to ensure the safety of funds. Prepaid products are generally cheaper, but it is difficult to guarantee the quality of tourism. Don't buy products with advance payment or deposit.

Low-priced group trap

Phenomenon: Some travel agencies often attract tourists' attention under the banner of low-cost group tours or even zero-loss group tours. At this time, we should be vigilant.

Tips: Beware of low-priced products. In recent years, many tourists are highly sensitive to prices. Simply pursuing low-priced products will bring many follow-up service problems. Because tourism products are non-standardized products, involving pre-trip consultation, in-trip tourism reception, after-trip service and other full prices, we can not simply pursue low-priced products when purchasing tourism products.

Shopping trap

Phenomenon: Tour groups often take tourists to various designated shopping places, and the quality of products in these places is often difficult to guarantee.

Tips: The Tourism Regulations clearly stipulate that tourists shall not be induced, deceived, forced or forced to shop or participate in other paid tourism projects in disguise. Consumers are advised to beware of shopping traps and shopping spots arranged in the travel itinerary during the travel process. , to prevent being deceived. Try not to buy luxury goods near tourist attractions and non-local daily consumption places. If you buy fake goods in the shopping mall, and the goods purchased by tourists in the travel contract or the shopping mall designated by the travel agency are adulterated and do not meet the quality requirements, the tourists can ask the travel agency for compensation, and the travel agency has the right to pursue the responsibility from the shopping mall after compensation.

Traffic trap

Phenomenon: Sometimes the traffic in tourism products will be delayed by trains and flights, or the promised traffic guarantee in some products has not been actually fulfilled.

Tips: In the choice of tourism transportation mode, relatively standardized tourism products have certain reference standards, so tourists can better identify the product content. In terms of large traffic, such as whether the ticket has been issued, the travel time, the selected airline, whether it is a direct flight, etc. What class is the ticket and the location of the class, etc. In terms of small traffic, what kind of transportation mode is it, whether it is renting a car, taking a bus or driving by car, whether the vehicle is a designated model, whether it includes insurance, whether it includes private guidance, etc. Confirm whether the vehicle is owned by the platform or sold by the platform. If it is a platform consignment, please confirm the qualification of the third party organization, vehicle maintenance status, driver qualification, etc.

Tourist vehicles are either chartered by tour groups or operated by tourist destinations, with high safety factor in appearance. Regular tourist traffic, with clear stops and routes, is not in the middle of the road. Self-help tourists try to take public transport at their destination.