Why are the recent tour groups getting cheaper and cheaper?

Let me show you the hidden secrets in the tour. The last one is crucial!

Why are tour groups getting cheaper and cheaper in recent years? This time is relatively accurate in recent years, and it should refer to 20 10 years later. Originally, we said that traveling is a luxury, and joining a tour group is a way for the rich to enjoy life. Now traveling with a group has completely changed its taste. Why?

1. Tourism products are also commodities, and commodities will have their commodity attributes, and adapting to the market is one of them.

After all, the rich are a minority, but the group with travel needs is too big to imagine! Among them, there are middle and high income groups, who have no money in their pockets, but in order to do business, various low-priced groups have sprung up. Low-cost tour and 0 yuan tour products emerge one after another. Where do their costs come from? Travel agencies really don't make money?

No, this is a big mistake. Of course, travel agencies have to make money, but the source of product costs is beyond laymen's understanding.

1. Most of the low-priced tourist attractions are free attractions, and most of them are edge balls.

Take chestnuts for example. The itinerary says a one-day trip to Huangshan Mountain. The pictures sent to you are all the main attractions of Huangshan Mountain. As a result, when you arrived at your destination, you chose several new villages in Huangshan City to play. The ticket cost is 0.

2. The content 1 his own expenses are quite vague.

Give you a chestnut and send you a poster saying that Huangshan Mountain will visit 9.9 yuan one day. As soon as you heard it, you threw away 10 yuan and said keep the change. Very luxurious. When you get on the bus, the tour guide tells you: Chinese food takes care of itself, scenic spots take care of themselves, and this and that take care of themselves. If you don't pay, others will eat you and watch you, and others will play with you. It's not worth thinking about, it will bite its teeth.

There are many shopping shops during the trip.

Shopping stores and travel agencies are almost all strategic partners. Travel agencies take tourists to shops. Even if they don't shop, the shop will give the travel agency a sum of money. If a tourist buys something, the travel agency gets a copy. This is the main source of income for low-cost travel agencies. So I tell you, all the tourist shops are genuine, of course, believe it or not.

Second, American tourism in China started late, and in recent years it is undergoing a process of continuous improvement and standardization.

Scenic spots, travel agency owners, tour guides, motorcades, long-distance bus drivers and other people who traveled in their early years all enjoyed the sweetness brought by tourism. When tourism is the hottest, practitioners are simply picking up money!

Take chestnuts for example. In the year of Shanghai World Expo, some tour guides earned a suite in two months! If a group can earn less than four or five thousand dollars in two days, it is not playing well. Don't believe me, some insiders don't understand it.

But now with the introduction of the new tourism law, the improvement of various laws and regulations, and the strengthening of supervision by relevant departments, tourism is being standardized step by step, and the income of employees is gradually standardized. For tourists, the most intuitive change is that the price of tour groups has dropped!

Third, the tourism industry has gradually matured and the competition has become increasingly fierce.

There are more and more scenic spots and the market is getting bigger and bigger. All scenic spots are trying their best to attract tourists, and one of the means is to reduce prices!

Another example is chestnut in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Now almost all the scenic spots in this area are free on weekdays!

Fourth, the epidemic has had a great impact, and the pockets of ordinary people have shrunk.

It is a condiment for travel life, but it is not necessary. Affected by the epidemic here, many people began to lack money, and the desire to travel naturally decreased. In this context, all tourism enterprises want to survive, and they can only be forced to reduce prices, which really benefits tourists and makes them affordable.

In a word, the tourism price is getting lower and lower, which is a general trend, with both macro and micro reasons. But a warm reminder: don't think that cheap travel means you don't have it. You don't need money to travel. No pains, no gains. The eternal truth is to keep yourself.

In September, I received short messages from two travel agencies, saying that the five-day tour in Beijing was discounted, and the whole journey was only in 50 yuan. I went to one of the parade clubs for consultation every other day, and learned that this parade club sends six buses to Beijing every morning, all of which are elderly people around 60 years old. People over 70 years old must join the group, and their physical condition must be visually observed by the staff of the parade club.

According to the staff of the travel agency, the reason why it is cheap is affected by the intermittent prevention and control of the epidemic. In order to drive the depressed tourism market, related tourism industries have reported to the group to keep warm and improve their popularity. Under the sponsorship of many tourist shops in Beijing, with the active participation of many hotels and guest houses, and with the friendly support of tourist bus companies.

Of course, travel agencies also bluntly said that low-cost groups will definitely enter more shopping stores and will not be forced to buy. However, the service of the clerk was so enthusiastic that some people really felt pity and chose a few 120.

My old friends and I also signed up, and we waited until the morning of September 16. We each paid 50 yuan's travel expenses and 200 yuan's deposit, so we didn't go. We promise to refund the deposit as soon as we get on the bus and send a message to remind us one day in advance.

Strange to say, many aunts and grandmothers, especially the old couple, take part in low-cost tours outside the group, claiming that they are used to business lectures and shopping routines and spend money to play. The old couple don't buy food or cook these days. The key is to kill time.

By the way, due to the rebound of the local epidemic, the one-day tour I applied for in Beijing was suspended and the money was refunded. I'm waiting for the resumption.