Honeynet: What are the tricks for low-cost group tours?

There are many traps behind the low-priced group. Bian Xiao reminded everyone not to fall into the trap. Next, Honey.com will tell you what's wrong with low-cost group travel, so that the majority of travel enthusiasts will not be fooled by low-cost groups.

What are the tricks for low-cost group tours? Bian Xiao summarized as follows:

First of all, the main performance of low-cost group tours is that in order to attract tourists, travel agencies take the means of lowering the quotation of tourism products and arrange a large number of shopping and self-funded projects in the form of tourism activities. The so-called low-cost tour means that the ground agency only accepts the cost price when receiving tourists from the tour group, and is even willing to give money to the tour group, which is also called "negative ground connection" in the industry. When receiving the order, the land agency not only has no profit or even loss, but also needs to make up for the loss from tourists. Generally speaking, the land agency will cooperate with the shopping store. As long as the tour group is brought into the shopping store, the shopping store will pay the travel agency a fixed head fee regardless of whether the tourists shop or not. But the most important way is shopping rebate, which is the key to the profit and loss of the "gambling group" and the biggest variable. Shopping stores give travel agencies and tour guides "kickbacks" by raising commodity prices, which provides profit space for travel agencies to travel at low prices.

The National Tourism Administration has identified five kinds of "unreasonable low price" behaviors and eight kinds of cheating and forced shopping behaviors. In addition to compulsory shopping, low-cost group tours also require self-funded items, including additional attractions, entertainment items, catering and so on. , the tour guide draws commission from it; Deducting funds from food, clothing, housing and transportation is also the "doorway" for low-cost groups to make profits. Once a travel agency helps them with the tour group members, they will pay a "commission" to the travel agency at a price ranging from several hundred yuan to thousands of yuan for each tour group member, and the contract finally signed by the tour group members is provided by the local travel agency, and the travel agency that transports the tour group members for them is only equivalent to the "intermediary" of these low-cost tours.

Tips: There are word games in the contract of low-cost group tour, unfair format clauses, reducing or exempting the operator's obligations, unclear oral contract and unclear responsibilities, and sightseeing tour becomes "shopping tour" and "illegal tour". Therefore, Bian Xiao reminds the vast number of travel enthusiasts to polish their glasses and beware of being fooled.

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