How Chinese tour guides in Japan tricked Chinese tourists

Introduction: Nowadays, more and more Chinese people are traveling and shopping in Japan. However, because they do not understand Japanese, many people are deceived and fell into the trap by illegal Chinese tour guides. There are two main "shopping traps" in Japan: First, tour guides sell so-called "healthy food" and "new technology products" in the car. It can be seen from a product introduction and price list provided by industry insiders that there are many types of products, including cosmetics, small electrical appliances, health care products, nutritional products, etc., with prices ranging from several times higher than the purchase price to nearly 10 times. Second, tourists buy products that can be seen in the Japanese market, but the tour guides try their best not to let tourists buy them in general stores. Instead, they take tourists to remote and little-known "duty-free shops" to buy them. The prices of goods in these so-called duty-free shops are often five times the market price of similar goods

More and more Chinese people are traveling to Japan for shopping. However, because they do not understand Japanese, many people are deceived by black Chinese tour guides. into a trap. There are two main "shopping traps" in Japan:

First, tour guides sell so-called "healthy food" and "new technology products" in the car. It can be seen from a product introduction and price list provided by industry insiders that there are many types of products, including cosmetics, small electrical appliances, health care products, nutritional products, etc., with prices ranging from several times higher than the purchase price to nearly 10 times.

The second is that tourists buy products that can be seen in the Japanese market, but the tour guides try their best not to let tourists buy in general stores, but take tourists to remote and little-known "duty-free shops" to buy. The prices of goods in these so-called duty-free shops are often more than five times the market price of similar goods.

This kind of chaos is getting worse and worse, and even the Japanese can't stand it anymore. Recently, Japan's TBS TV station went deep into Ginza and Shinjuku and revealed the inside story of the rogue tour guides.

The following is an excerpt from a live report from TBS TV station:

Behind the explosive purchase of Chinese tourists, unqualified "black tour guides" are secretly active. The method is to forcefully sell high-priced goods, which is the so-called "fraudulent sales". We witnessed "black tour guides" mingling among Chinese tourists at the scene.

On July 18, we tried to contact "a person". The other party is designated to be in Ginza. Although it was morning, there were already many Chinese tourists on the street. A Chinese man appeared. Although he is not qualified as a tour guide, he once worked as an interpreter tour guide, also known as a "black tour guide".

How do black tour guides defraud tourists?

"Joined forces with duty-free shops to let customers buy things and make huge profits." The black tour guide took out a business report of the duty-free shop.

"Enzyme, this is a healthy food."

"Sold for 111,000 yen (about NT$28,000/5,560 yuan), and gave the tour guide a rebate of 36,000 yen (about 9,000 yuan) NT$/1800 RMB), said the black tour guide.

The rebate for high-priced health foods is 30% of the selling price.

The more customers buy, the more the tour guide will naturally earn.

"Mount Fuji is the symbol of Japan, symbolizing wealth and health."

"Guests are convinced"

"I was taken in when I was in a state of confusion." Crazy buying in the store"

TBS TV station interviewed a victim in Beijing who once participated in a five-day trip to Japan with her friends.

"The tour guide said that you don’t have to buy anything else when you come to Japan, but you must buy healthy food."

The woman said that the tour guide sold her a kind of healthy food, saying This healthy food is not only good for your skin, but also increases your longevity.

A bottle costs 24,000 yen and is said to be a "famous Japanese product".

The woman bought two bottles, and there were customers who bought 50 bottles at that time...

"After I returned to China, I investigated and found that there was no reputation at all." The woman said.

TBS interviewed on the streets of Shinjuku...

Shinjuku? Kabukicho

The streets were full of buses

A Chinese tourist said: I have spent 800,000-1 million yen (200,000-250,000 Taiwan dollars/40,000-50,000 yuan).

Question: "Are you buying healthy food?"

Answer: "(I heard) Japanese people live longer if they drink this."

"( Buying healthy food) cost about 200,000 yen (NT$50,000/RMB 10,000)〞

Healthy food "explosion"

How do tourists view the efficacy of healthy food... …

"Nowadays, many children in China are mentally unstable..."

"This can be cured." Come up with various tricks. "Why is there such chaos? This is mainly related to the ecology of Japan's tourism industry. Due to vicious competition in the industry, Japanese hospitality agencies have lowered their prices for receiving Chinese tour groups, or accepted them at "loss-making" prices. Previously, a travel agency launched a "Japan Golden Tour Route of 5 nights and 6 days". The quoted price for the tour from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka was only more than 3,000 yuan (NT$15,000), which was far lower than the actual cost. Of course, travel agencies will not bear the "loss" part themselves. In the end, they have to find ways to "recover" it from tourists and achieve profits. This makes it an inevitable choice for tour guides to induce tourists to shop at high prices.

According to estimates by relevant Japanese agencies, there are currently thousands of tour guides receiving Chinese tourists in Japan, and most of them are "unlicensed tour guides."