What do you mean by traveling, shopping and paying for yourself?

Shopping is a shopping item that travel agencies do not arrange. 0 Self-funded projects refer to projects that do not require tourists to pay their own expenses (except volunteers). Travel agencies that organize and receive group tours shall not designate shopping places, force or force shopping in disguise, or arrange any form of paid tourism projects. The tour guide service fee shall be specified in the package tour contract.

At the same time, it is clear that the contents of the package tour contract must include the travel itinerary, the specific content and time of sightseeing and entertainment projects, the time arrangement of free activities, travel expenses and their payment. Travel agencies shall not arrange fees or collect fees separately from the package tour contract.

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Tourists are one of the main components of the tourism market, the direct victims of vicious competition, zero-negative tour fees and other illegal activities in the tourism market, and of course the biggest beneficiaries of the healthy tourism market order.

In order to reshape the market order of healthy tourism more effectively and fully mobilize all forces that can be mobilized, the Tourism Law has launched a mass movement to reshape the market order of healthy tourism by giving tourists all kinds of legal weapons that can counter illegal tourism operators. For example, it is specifically stipulated that travel agencies should not attract, organize or receive tourists at a price lower than the cost.

Travel agencies are not allowed to designate shopping places, to force or force shopping in disguised form, and to arrange any form of paid tourism projects. Under any of the circumstances specified in the preceding paragraph, tourists have the right to request the travel agency to bear the responsibility of returning goods and refund fees within 30 days after the end of the tour, except that the goods purchased by tourists are damaged, deteriorated or rotted.

By strengthening the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of tourists, the closed tour operators can operate legally and legally, so as to control the tourism chaos such as "zero negative tour fare", forced shopping and forced participation in self-funded projects.

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China Tourism-The draft Tourism Law is open for public consultation, and zero-negative tour fees and forced shopping are prohibited.