What are the legal issues for low-price travel groups?

The National Tourism Administration issued the "Opinions on Combating the Organization of "Unreasonable Low-price Tours""

The relevant person in charge of the Supervision Department of the National Tourism Administration stated that it deviates from the law of value and is significantly lower than the operating price. The cost is considered to be “unreasonably low”, but before that, there was no explicit regulation on how to define it.

The National Tourism Administration issued an opinion, identifying five behaviors as "unreasonable low-price tourism", including travel agencies' tourism product prices that are more than 30% lower than the honest tourism guide price announced by the local tourism department or tourism industry association. , the organizing agency entrusts the business to the local travel agent to perform, does not pay fees to the local travel agency or pays fees lower than the reception and service costs, etc.

Travel agencies and persons responsible for providing "unreasonable low-price tours" will be punished

The opinions also announced the punishment standards for illegal activities of "unreasonable low-price tours": First, for Penalties for travel agencies: Confiscating illegal gains and ordering them to suspend operations for three months for rectification. If the circumstances are serious, the travel agency business license will be revoked; a fine of 300,000 yuan will be imposed; if the illegal gains exceed 300,000 yuan, a fine of five times the illegal gains will be imposed; Include bad information on tourism business services, transfer it to tourism business service credit files, and announce it to the public.

The second is the punishment of relevant responsible persons of the travel agency: the person directly in charge and other directly responsible personnel will have their illegal gains confiscated and fined 20,000 yuan; the legal representative of the travel agency will have his travel agency business license revoked and key management personnel who have not exceeded three years from the date of punishment shall not engage in travel agency business; bad information on tourism business services will be included in it, and transferred to the credit files of tourism business services and announced to the public.

Five types of "unreasonable low-price tours"

The price of travel products of travel agencies is more than 30% lower than the honest travel guide price announced by the local tourism department or tourism industry association;

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The tour organizer entrusts the business to the local travel agency and fails to pay the local travel agency or the fee paid is lower than the reception and service costs;

The local travel agency does not pay the reception and service costs; The service fee or the fee paid is lower than the reception and service cost of the tour group;

The travel agency arranges the tour guide to provide services for the group tour and requires the tour guide to advance or charges fees from the tour guide;

Other "unreasonable low price" behaviors by travel agencies that harm the legitimate rights and interests of tourists as stipulated by laws and regulations.