Do I need a travel deposit to go to Australia with a group?

You don't need a travel deposit to go to Australia with a group. Usually, the deposit is collected by the travel agency.

Sign up for outbound travel products, pay the tour fee and pay a deposit ranging from tens of thousands of yuan. This is the so-called "outbound travel deposit", that is, when domestic outbound travel agencies organize tourists to travel abroad, in order to prevent tourists from staying, tourists are required to pay a certain amount of cash as a deposit to the tour group before leaving the group.

Because there is no explicit provision on the deposit, it can be said that it is a hidden rule for travel agencies to collect the deposit. In order to share the risk of being stopped by the embassy and punished by the tourism department, they have to do so.

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Travel agencies engaged in outbound travel business have been facing the pressure of tourists staying. For travel agencies, if tourists flee the tour group many times, they will be stopped from issuing visas within a certain period of time by the embassy, making it difficult to engage in outbound travel business, and even more seriously, they will be disqualified by the National Tourism Administration. At this time, the deposit collected by the travel agency made some compensation for its losses.

The loss caused by leaving the group is not only a direct economic loss, but also a loss of reputation. An industry veteran said with deep feelings that among the three major businesses of travel agencies: domestic travel, inbound travel and outbound travel, outbound travel is the most profitable but also the most difficult and risky one. For a service industry like a travel agency, reputation is directly related to profits.

People's Network-outbound travel deposit: unwritten reasons