What's the difference between tourism enterprises and general enterprises?

1. Travel agency refers to an enterprise legal person engaged in attracting, organizing and receiving tourists, providing relevant tourism services for tourists, and carrying out domestic tourism business, inbound tourism business or outbound tourism business.

2. To set up a travel agency to engage in domestic tourism business and inbound tourism business, the following conditions shall be met:

(1) Having a fixed business place;

(2) Having necessary business facilities;

(3) Its registered capital is not less than 300,000 yuan.

To apply for the establishment of a travel agency, an application shall be submitted to the local tourism administrative department or the municipal tourism administrative department entrusted by it, and relevant supporting documents that meet the provisions of Article 6 of these Regulations shall be submitted. The tourism administrative department that accepts the application shall make a decision of approval or disapproval within 20 working days from the date of accepting the application. If the license is granted, the applicant shall be issued with the Travel Agency Business License, and the applicant shall go through the establishment registration with the administrative department for industry and commerce with the Travel Agency Business License; If the license is not granted, notify the applicant in writing and explain the reasons.

3. A travel agency that has obtained a business license for two years and has not been fined by the administrative organ for violating the legitimate rights and interests of tourists may apply for outbound tourism business.

4. Where a travel agency establishes a branch, it shall register its establishment with the administrative department for industry and commerce where the branch is located with a copy of its business license, and shall put it on record with the tourism administrative department where the branch is located within 3 working days from the date of establishment registration.

The business scope of the branch shall not exceed the business scope of the travel agency that set up the branch.

5. The travel agency shall, within three working days from the date of obtaining the business license of the travel agency, open a special account for quality deposit in the bank designated by the tourism administrative department of the State Council, deposit the quality deposit, or submit a bank guarantee with a legally obtained guarantee amount not less than the corresponding quality deposit amount to the tourism administrative department that makes the license. Travel agencies engaged in domestic tourism business and inbound tourism business shall deposit a quality deposit of 200,000 yuan; Travel agencies engaged in outbound tourism business increased the quality guarantee by 6,543,800 yuan+0.2 million yuan.

The interest on the quality deposit belongs to the travel agency.

6. In any of the following circumstances, the tourism administrative department may use the quality deposit of the travel agency:

(a) the travel agency violates the travel contract and infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of tourists, which is verified by the tourism administrative department; (2) Loss of travel expenses paid in advance by tourists due to dissolution, bankruptcy or other reasons.

7. The people's court judgment, ruling and other effective legal documents found that the travel agency harmed the legitimate rights and interests of tourists, and the travel agency refused or was unable to pay compensation, the people's court may allocate compensation from the quality guarantee account of the travel agency.

If the travel agency is punished by the administrative organ for using the quality deposit to compensate the tourists' losses or infringing on the tourists' legitimate rights and interests after reducing the quality deposit according to law, it shall make up the quality deposit within 5 working days from the date of receiving the notice from the tourism administrative department to pay the quality deposit.

If the travel agency is no longer engaged in tourism business, it shall retrieve the quality deposit from the bank with the certificate issued by the tourism administrative department.