What are the legal provisions for cheating travel and mandatory shopping?

The "Opinions on Combating "Deception and Forced Shopping" in Tourism Activities" issued by the National Tourism Administration points out eight standards for determining whether travel agencies and tour guides engage in fraud and forced shopping. As a tourist, you must understand these 8 standards. If your rights and interests are violated, you can use the law to protect yourself.

8 behaviors of deception and forced shopping during travel:

1. Travel agencies arrange shopping without tourists’ written consent;

2. Travel agencies, tour guides The tour leader makes physical threats and intimidation to tourists to force them to shop;

3. The shopping places arranged by travel agencies and tour guides are illegal or not open to the public;

< p>4. The goods sold in shopping places arranged by travel agencies and tour guides are adulterated, fake, passed off as genuine, inferior, and substandard products passed off as qualified products;

5. Travel agencies, tour guides The tour leader knows or should know that the operator of the shopping place he arranges has a record of seriously damaging the rights and interests of tourists;

6. Travel agencies and tour guides receive unfair benefits such as kickbacks from the operators of shopping places;

7. Shopping place operators are under the circumstances specified in Article 56 of the "Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Law";

8. Travel agencies, tour guides and shopping place operators are required by laws and regulations to pass Shopping behavior that damages the legitimate rights and interests of tourists.

What are the five types of "unreasonable low-price tours" clarified by the National Tourism Administration?

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

2. The organizing agency entrusts the business to the local government The local travel agency fails to pay the reception and service fees or pays less than the reception and service costs;

3. The local travel agency does not pay the reception and service fees or pays less than the reception and service costs. Service costs for travel groups;

4. Travel agencies arrange for tour guides to provide services for group tours and require the tour guides to advance or charge fees to the tour guides;

5. Laws and regulations Other "unreasonable low price" behaviors prescribed by travel agencies that harm the legitimate rights and interests of tourists.

If the price of the tourism products provided by the travel agency is more than 30% lower than the local tourism department's honest tourism guide price, it is considered an "unreasonable low-price tour".

Everything you do should be within the standards and comply with national regulations. In today's market economy, if there are no regulations and bottom lines for anything, then everything will be chaotic. As a tourist, you must resist this kind of unreasonable and low-price parade behavior , if no one participates, no one will initiate it, so to maintain a good tourism environment, you must start with yourself!

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