Is it legal for tour guides to force shopping?

With the development of tourism, travel agencies and tour groups in various places are also booming. In recent years, there have been reports of tourist groups forcing members to buy high-priced goods in various places. Even tourists who did not buy products were morally abducted by tour guides, verbally abused, and deducted from tourists' tour fee deposits. These behaviors really make the travel experience of tourists and consumers extremely poor.

Even in the videos exposed by many netizens, some tour guides violently force you to buy expensive jewelry, or use verbal abuse to catch you and force you to buy expensive jewelry.

What should I do if the tour guide forces or induces me to make purchases while traveling in a group? 3 tips to help you resolve the crisis simply

Or if you don’t buy the goods in a store in a scenic spot, they won’t even take you away. Many friends are really helpless and choose to settle the matter and buy. These behaviors all involve illegal crimes, forced buying and selling, and restricting personal freedom.

This way of traveling by tour group is very popular among elderly friends. After all, it is a very convenient and hassle-free option to travel without buying tickets or planning strategies.

However, the elderly’s discernment ability and legal awareness are relatively weak, which allows many unscrupulous travel agencies or tour guides to take advantage of them. Therefore, friends who travel with a group must choose a good tour group, identify regular companies and choose a tour guide with a tour guide qualification certificate.

Today I will tell you some tips on how to deal with being forced to spend money when traveling in a group? Is there any way to deal with the compulsory consumption of tour guides?

First of all, the first little trick is to unite teammates to resist

Everyone travels together to save costs or trouble and effort, but if you encounter that kind of tour group just to Taking you to visit tourist attractions is not a tourist attraction at all. Some groups just go directly to the entrance of the scenic spot and let everyone take photos, without even entering the scenic spot gate.

You should be alert at this time, you have joined this black tour group. If the tour guide takes you directly to the commercial street in the scenic spot, when you arrive at the store, you will directly promote various local specialties such as expensive jewelry. In this case, you can unite your teammates and jointly question him, asking him why he went to the store instead of the attraction.

Of course, you must also avoid direct conflicts with the tour guide. At this time, you must not choose to resist and quarrel individually. It is necessary to unite everyone's strength to make the unscrupulous tour guide helpless. Especially the elderly friends must not trust the tour guide. Use sweet words or you will really be deceived.

As long as all tourists unite to denounce and boycott the tour guide’s behavior, the tour guide will have no choice but to give in to the entire group.

Secondly, the second point is very important, that is to learn to retain evidence

As the saying goes, empty words are unfounded, but when you present the evidence, it will be ironclad, and you will be able to convince those with evil intentions. The tour guide or tour group has nothing to say. But sometimes the tour guides are also very cunning. They will avoid some verbal loopholes so that you cannot get the evidence.

Some tour guides even directly intimidate everyone with words and actions, so when you encounter In this case, especially the elderly friends, they must learn to endure the calm for a while. While being patient, you should also quietly take out your mobile phone, record or take photos, and leave evidence of their intimidation or threat. Wait until you return to your hotel or after your trip to report to the relevant consumer association or police station.

If the above two points are really impossible to achieve. Then you can choose to leave the tour group directly

After all, traveling with many people you meet for the first time often does not allow you to do so many things. If you encounter this kind of tour group and have no other choice, you can choose to leave. After all, we have the right to make our own choices.

Before we travel, we have signed an agreement with the tour group. We can communicate according to the terms of the agreement and contact them for relevant compensation and refunds. It is important to safeguard our rights and interests. A very important thing.

We would also like to remind everyone here that when signing an agreement, you must carefully read the terms of your agreement, especially those involving fees such as deposit refunds, compulsory consumption, and insurance purchases. Be careful about the relevant agreements before signing them, otherwise when it comes time to defend your rights, there will be no basis for these unscrupulous tour groups to take advantage of the loopholes.

The above are three tips to introduce to you how to deal with unscrupulous tour groups or unscrupulous tour guides. Unite teammates to jointly resist, secretly leave evidence and report it later. Another option is to choose to leave and defend your rights afterwards. I hope everyone will take these three tips and remember them in a notebook, and spread the science to their parents and friends, so that they can be more at ease when traveling in a group to prevent problems before they happen, and have a more comfortable time.