Is it free to travel around the country with a tourist guide card?

After passing the exam, I got the national tour guide qualification certificate.

With it, you can go through the formalities in the tourism bureau and get a tour guide card (tour guide IC card).

The tour guide IC card is reviewed once a year (if you don't participate in the annual review for three years, the tour guide IC card will be invalid)

As long as it is a tour group, with the guide IC card, big tickets for tourist attractions can be free.

However, small tickets for scenic spots are not necessarily free. For example, the Huangshan cableway was originally free. Sixteen guests can take the cableway without a guide and with a guide card. If a group of sixteen people has two tour guides, only one tour guide can enjoy the ropeway for free. The other one has to pay even if he travels.

If you don't take a tour group, whether you can enter the scenic spot for free with the guide ic card depends on the regulations of the ticket inspector and the scenic spot. Some of them can be exempted, while others can't.

With the national tour guide qualification certificate, some scenic spots are allowed to enter, and some are not allowed to enter, whether there is a tour group or not.