What are tour guide service fees and tour guide subsidies?

According to the third paragraph of Article 60 of the Tourism Law, if a tour guide is arranged to provide services for tourists, the tour guide service fee shall be stipulated in the package tour contract; The package tour contract in the third paragraph of Article11refers to lump sum contract where the travel agency arranges the itinerary in advance and provides or provides two or more tour services such as transportation, accommodation, catering, sightseeing, tour guide or tour leader through the performance assistant, and the tourists pay the travel expenses. Therefore, tourists must pay all contract fees including tour guide service fees before the group leaves.

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According to the provisions of the Tourism Law, the tour guide service fee will be included in the contract, which also shows that the tour guide has the right to get this part of the fee, and once the travel agency breaches the contract, it will be punished. However, it is worth mentioning that the operation of this part of the outbound tour is the same as before. According to international practice, tourists need to pay tips to overseas tour guides and drivers, which is not prohibited by the Tourism Law.

According to the provisions of Article 35 of the Tourism Law, travel agencies are not allowed to organize tourism activities at unreasonably low prices to trick tourists, and obtain illegitimate interests such as kickbacks by arranging shopping or paying for other tourism projects. Chen Baiyu, president of Guang Zhi Tourism, pointed out that after the implementation of the Tourism Law, the new quotation methods will tend to be unified.

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