What are the new scams of the 2020 tour group-how to avoid them?

Dear friends, although cross-provincial tourism has picked up recently, we should also know about related travel scams. Maybe the first half of the year is the freezing period of tourism, and you can travel in the second half. Many tour groups will tell you that there are discounts, but many discounts may face pits.

Travel scam Recently, there has been another scam in the tourism circle. Many people bought 5980 yuan in travel agencies and friends circle, and two people traveled to Sanya from Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuxi and Hefei, plus three nights of Atlantis accommodation products, which broke the warehouse.

The so-called explosion of positions naturally means that consumers can't travel when they buy tourist goods, and even the tour fees they pay may not be returned.

In April this year, Yate himself had a product, including round-trip air tickets for two people in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Chongqing, Guangzhou and Guiyang, plus two nights at Yate Hotel, starting from 4 188 yuan.

Therefore, according to the price in April alone, 5980 yuan (expensive 1792), plus one night's accommodation and a child ticket, is barely within a reasonable range.

Prices rose in May and June. By collecting money from new customers and compensating the price difference between old customers, it is estimated that we can barely reach some balance.

But once in July, not only the difference between the air ticket and the hotel was bigger, but also Yate's rooms were full, and the problem broke out.

Just like Ponzi.

How to find out that there are three main roles in this "brave world tour": wholesalers, tour groups and consumers.

wholesaler

Wholesalers will visit hotels in chartered flight, but generally they will not sell tourism products directly to the public.

B (group clubs) are the majority. They get a good cost through a lot, and get a lot through a good cost. Basically, we talk about annual flights with airlines and bulk discounts with common destination hotels.

The core value of wholesalers: low price, low price or low price.

travel agency

The main purpose of the tour group is to find the route, collect the guests and give them to the route. CYTS and Caesar are tourism groups, and their core is to have customer resources.

There are more than 10 tour groups involving Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai this time.

consumer

Consumers are the easiest to explain, the people who bought these goods.

The general service flow of tour groups is: tourists-tour groups-wholesalers.

1) Gambling by wholesalers

As a wholesaler in Yunnan and Thailand, I love gambling.

The easiest way is to gamble on shopping and paying at your own expense. A little more complicated, gambling cancellation (users can't buy it), gambling futures (hotels and air tickets have come down) and gambling subsidies (recently local governments subsidize tourism).

For example, if the 6-day reception fee in a certain place is 2000 yuan, the fastest and most effective way to dig business is to quote 1900, and the low 100 is a pit, relying on gambling.

This is how so many negative tour groups in Yunnan and Thailand came before.

The source of this Yate accident is actually a third-rate unknown wholesaler in Yunnan.

What do they bet on? Bet that after you go to Sanya, you will get a rebate if you use the coupons they gave you. Bet that after you live in Astra, you will get a rebate if you order additional travel photos or other paid products; Gambling epidemic is repeated, you may not travel; Bet on air tickets, and the hotel will temporarily reduce prices. take a risk ......

Anyway, I brought the one I played in Yunnan to Sanya.

But Sanya is not Yunnan. This year's Sanya is not the Sanya of previous years. Have you seen that Sanya is always the summer peak season in previous years? But this year is!

2) the luck of the tour group.

I really didn't expect that besides tourists, there are so many (more than 10 in total, 5 in Zhejiang) recruited by tour groups. There are many "old rivers and lakes" in the tourist circle.

And so far, they are the biggest losers. On the one hand, the money is given to the upstream suppliers for the time being, and on the other hand, it is necessary to give consumers a down payment.

I can only say that the epidemic has been going on for a long time, and the pressure is great. I haven't done business for half a year, and I can't even make the most basic judgment.

Or, knowing that there is a hole, but always holding a fluke, you won't storm so early, and you won't be the last person cheated by Ponzi scheme.

This is obviously the leek cut by the upstream wholesaler.

Don't call chopped leeks, and the last ones who are pitted are accomplices who want to make money (regular travel agencies). I think I can only blame myself for being blinded by luck.

In the process of chasing money, many tourism practitioners suddenly realized a problem. Since the essence of being a travel agency is for money, where does the money come from? Actually, it's not an important thing. Cutting from the user's hand is cutting, and cutting from the group club is also cutting, as long as it is not fake money.

3) The greed of consumers

What kind of consumers will buy 999 to and from Yunnan and Thailand? I will also buy this three-person 5980 round trip to Sanya to live in Yate and Addison. There are only 2000 people on average, which obviously violates the price law during the summer vacation.

I always thought that if the price was too low, there would be demons. In summer, Astra rushed to 4000+ in one night. How can you stay in 5980 for three nights? Tickets are also included.

How to avoid the price is too low, there must be demons, and something strange happens.

If the tourist products you buy are remitted (transferred) to private individuals, and the prices are obviously abnormal without invoices, you need to pay more attention.

If the price of tourism products is lower than 20% of the market price, all kinds of advertisements that attract people to give rebates basically have big problems.

Don't buy any other goods reserved for the second time except the resource side.

The flying pig stepped on a pit. Four or five years ago, the double 1 1, all kinds of tourism and holiday products (air tickets+hotels) booked twice were provided by travel agencies, and now they are long gone.

Why? Travel agencies are not resource providers and cannot control hotels and airlines at all. Consumers want to travel in the peak season, and airline hotels want to raise prices in the peak season. This is a paradox. Travel agencies can't manage resources or consumers.

This is also the reason why there are a lot of second reservations in hotels at present, and airlines also sell many second reservations (free flight packages). But the travel agency can't do it at all.

Most of the goods booked by travel agencies have pits.

Find a spare tire and take a risk.

Economic laws tell us that risks will never disappear, but will only shift. It is better to find a spare tire middleman than to buy tourist goods directly with travel agencies and resource parties.

For example, if you are trading in flying pigs, the money is on Alipay, and no one can take it without writing it off.

For example, if you trade in Ctrip, the money is also collected by Ctrip first, and Ctrip's control over suppliers is definitely much stronger than yours.

But these are actually not the point. The real point is that everyone needs to curb their greed and desire.

The price in Sanya is so low in summer that everyone should realize the problem. It's just that everyone thinks that they won't be the last one, and they can take a chestnut from the fire.