How to travel and shop in Yunnan without being cheated?

1. Attracting consumers with cost price, the land agency only accepts cost price when accepting tour groups, and is even willing to post money to tour groups to attract price-sensitive customers.

2. Choose tourists when organizing group tours. In order to minimize the risk, low-cost tour groups will consider factors such as occupation, gender, age and region, and tour guides will use the potential comparison psychology of tourists from different regions to stimulate consumption.

3. False promises not to consume, low-cost groups will claim that there will be no shopping projects when attracting tourists, but most of these promises are only verbal and will not be written into the contract. Once there is a dispute afterwards, it is difficult for tourists to defend their rights.

4. Reserve funds. Low-cost tour groups will let tourists put some money first for various reasons and promise to return it when they come back. If tourists spend less than a certain amount during the purchase, the money will be detained.

5, reduce the cost of tourism, tour guides save money by reducing the standards of catering, accommodation and transportation as much as possible.

6. Arrange for repeat customers in the purchase process. The land agency will generally cooperate with the shopping point. Whether shopping or not, the shopping mall will pay the travel agency a fixed head fee. Shopping stores give kickbacks to travel agencies and tour guides, providing travel agencies with profit space of zero group fees.

7. Induce tourists to spend. In order to shop, the tour guide will use 18 kinds of martial arts to take advantage of the tourists' trust in the tour guide. Shopping shops induce consumption, which naturally comes.

8. Force tourists to spend money. If the induced consumption is not smooth, and some people are unwilling or explicitly refuse to shop, the tour guide will generally use both bitter and threatening means, which is very insulting.

9, increase the cost, some low-cost groups will add items in the itinerary and charge fees, and even take advantage of tourists who don't understand the market and charge admission fees for free attractions.

10, hidden consumption, tourist attractions to worship Buddha, fund-raising donations and other names to let tourists pay, and some well-known hotels frantically grab strong attractions, temporarily hold flame parties or water-splashing festivals, most of which have problems.