Does the Tourism Law stipulate that tour guides cannot take tourists shopping?

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What impact does the promulgation of the "Tourism Law" have on tourism shopping:

1. For the entire tourism industry, the biggest impact is on the designated shopping spots of travel agencies.

Shopping spots that are attached to scenic spots have little impact, while shopping spots that are completely attached to tourist groups have a big impact. This kind of shopping spots are often located in the middle of two scenic spots, located in remote areas, and are completely driven by tourist groups. The introduction of the new tourism law will inevitably make it difficult for most of them to survive and relocate.

2. For many tour guides (non-scenic spot tour guides and overseas tour leaders), the introduction of the new tourism law is out-and-out bad news.

Travel agencies shall conclude labor contracts with the tour guides they employ in accordance with the law, pay labor remuneration and pay social insurance fees. If a travel agency temporarily hires a tour guide to provide services to tourists, it shall pay the tour guide in full the tour guide service fees specified in paragraph 3 of Article 60 of this Law. When a travel agency arranges for a tour guide to provide services for a group tour, it shall not require the tour guide to advance or charge any fees to the tour guide.

3. For travel agencies, there are two aspects that have the greatest impact:

1. The era of affiliation has passed

Article 30: Travel agencies are not allowed to rent out , Lending a travel agency business license, or illegally transferring a travel agency business license in other forms.

The accreditation problem is the most deformed and serious problem in the travel agency industry. It seems that this time the knife has really been taken. Affiliation has always been on the edge of the rules. However, with the introduction of the new tourism law, the industry has formed* **Knowledge: The affiliation is dead.

If you don’t know what affiliation is, please search it yourself. The existence of affiliation phenomenon is a problem of travel agency’s access threshold. The cost of affiliation is only tens of thousands a year, but it costs hundreds of thousands to register a travel agency.

For international travel agencies, the registered capital must be no less than RMB 1.5 million; for domestic travel agencies, the registered capital must be no less than RMB 300,000.

Although the affiliate method is dead, you still have to eat. It’s just a matter of eating standing or kneeling. In order to expand the market and pursue profits, travel agencies will definitely recruit many of them and set up branches. department. Although they were deprived of the qualification to launch independent regiments, those businessmen would definitely play the rules well and upgrade the field army to a regular army. After all, the impact is too wide, and it is unrealistic to comprehensively rectify the affiliated phenomenon.

2. The era of pure fun has arrived

Travel agencies are not allowed to organize tourism activities at unreasonable low prices, induce or deceive tourists, and obtain profits by arranging shopping or paying for additional travel projects. Kickbacks and other illegitimate benefits.

Pure play is a very simple concept that was proposed very early. However, with the promulgation of the new tourism law, the real era of pure play has been delayed.

Of course it may be called something else, I’m not sure, but low-price tours are dead and it’s common knowledge that tour fees will increase. There will be more and more tourist groups that do not want to shop or enter the store. The era of quality first and price later has arrived.

3. The Tourism Law will be officially implemented on October 1. According to the law, travel agencies are not allowed to designate specific shopping venues and are not allowed to arrange additional paid tours. Many travel agencies in Beijing said that before the implementation details of the "Tourism Law" are released, they will temporarily adopt a "one-size-fits-all" approach to cancel shopping links.

This year’s National Day is also the first test of the Tourism Law on the tourism market. The reporter visited many travel agency stores in Beijing over the past few days and found that the prices of almost all routes for group tours have been adjusted, with the largest increase of more than 100%.

The National Day will focus on investigating and punishing "zero negative tour fees" etc.

On the 27th, the relevant person in charge of the National Tourism Administration stated that during the National Day, the national tourism department will send more than 4,000 people to investigate the "Tourism Conduct overt and covert inspections to implement the Law. Focus on investigating and dealing with the ten major problems such as "travel agencies operating without licenses and zero negative tour fees", "forced and disguised forced consumption", "tour guides and leaders soliciting business for themselves", and "tour guides and leaders not informing them of the civilized tourism code of conduct". Focus on supervision and inspection in Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai and other places. According to him, after the National Day holiday, a series of typical cases will be launched based on the inspection situation to further clarify the role of the tourism law in industry supervision.

Prices for group tours generally increased by 20 to 30%

Prices for group tours generally increased after the National Day holiday. The reporter visited many travel agency stores over the past few days and found that prices for almost all routes have been adjusted. The price adjustments for group groups in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other outbound travel destinations have been the largest. The largest corrections increased by more than 100%, and the average increase was approximately between 20% and 30%.

Taking an 8-day trip to Taiwan as an example, the price quoted by a private travel agency was adjusted from 4,000 yuan in early September to more than 7,000 yuan. The price increases for this route at other travel agencies range from 600 yuan to 1,500 yuan.

"Our tours in September were all full, and the tours in early October have received less than 20 guests so far." Store salesman Lu Xiao told reporters that although the quotation has obviously increased, it is still not good for tourists. It's a good thing. You don't have to pay a penny more when you go abroad, and you don't have to enter a store. There are many sights to see.

According to the store salesperson of Uoxin Travel, routes such as South Korea and Thailand are more expensive than before. “The price increase is not as severe as everyone imagined. In fact, it includes tickets, tips and other fees that were previously charged overseas.

He took a ten-day tour of three European countries as an example, "Our price adjustment this time is to include ticket fees for the Louvre, Palace of Versailles, etc." "

Travel agencies temporarily cancel shopping sessions

After the promulgation of the "Tourism Law", can tour groups still shop? Many travel agencies said that in the early stage of the implementation of the "Tourism Law", most travel agencies The choice is “Refuse to Shopping”, and shopping malls and outlets are no longer visible on each store’s itinerary. “Although the Tourism Law states that shopping can be done conditionally, this does not exist on paper. No one can tell for sure. "The relevant person in charge of Haitao Tourism Marketing Department said.

"This arrangement in October is a conservative approach, and it will definitely rely on market adjustment in the end. "The relevant person in charge of Zhongxin Tourism said.

Impact on travel agencies: increasing tourists' free time

"We will adjust the route depending on the situation, such as adding some free time, or arranging more Semi-self-service products, tourists can shop by themselves.

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