How much deposit do foreign travel agencies need to pay?

Among them, especially the lowering of the entry threshold for foreign travel agencies will have a far-reaching impact on the tourism pattern. The insiders believe that this move will help eradicate the unreasonable phenomenon that is common in the tourism industry at present. According to the contents of the exposure draft on lowering the entry threshold of travel agencies, it is proposed for the first time to lower the entry threshold of travel agencies, uniformly set the registered capital of travel agencies engaged in domestic tourism, inbound tourism and outbound tourism to 300,000 yuan, and stipulate that those who apply for outbound tourism business no longer need to go through the preliminary examination of the provincial tourism administrative department, and directly apply to the the State Council tourism administrative department, cancel the provision that travel agencies can set up branches only after receiving more than 654.38 million tourists every year, and increase the registered capital of travel agencies when setting up branches. At the same time, in order to improve the quality margin management system, the opinion draft proposes to reduce the amount of quality margin, reduce the quality margin for inbound tourism business from 600,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan, and reduce the quality margin for domestic tourism business, inbound tourism business and outbound tourism business from 6,543,800 yuan to 6,543,800 yuan, and establish a dynamic management mechanism for quality margin. There is no legal infringement on tourists within three years from the date when the travel agency pays or supplements the quality deposit. Travel agencies in tourism administrative departments use quality deposit to compensate tourists for their losses, or after the quality deposit is refunded, they are fined by administrative organs for infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of tourists, so they should make up the quality deposit and make clear three situations in which the tourism administrative departments can use the quality deposit. The opinion draft also suggests amending the special provisions of foreign-invested travel agencies. Including stipulating that foreign-invested travel agencies can set up travel agencies in the form of sole proprietorship except Sino-foreign joint ventures and Sino-foreign cooperation; Cancel the stipulation that the minimum registered capital of Chinese-foreign joint ventures and Chinese-foreign cooperative travel agencies is 4 million yuan; Cancel the requirement that Chinese investors in foreign-invested travel agencies must be legally established companies; Cancel the requirement that foreign tourism operators must be members of domestic tourism industry associations; Cancel the rule that foreign-funded travel agencies are not allowed to set up branches. In addition, in view of the problems existing in the current operation of travel agencies, especially the "zero-negative tour fee", the draft for comment stipulates that travel agencies are prohibited from using low prices to deceive and mislead tourists, require travel agencies to sign travel contracts with tourists, and clearly stipulate the contents of the contracts. Travel agencies and their designated tour guides and tour leaders are prohibited from deceiving or coercing tourists to shop, or participating in tourism activities that require additional payment. Travel agencies should pay no less than reception fees and reception fees when entrusting business. For the above amendments, people in the tourism industry pointed out that lowering the entry threshold of travel agencies will help to completely eradicate the unreasonable phenomena that are common in the tourism industry at present, such as the phenomenon that travel agencies with outbound travel qualifications or well-known travel agencies make money through private contracting fees without operating. At the same time, it can make employees more responsible. At present, because of the high threshold, many employees can only engage in the tourism industry by paying a departmental contract fee of 50,000 to 6,543,800 yuan or more. "The policy of further opening up foreign travel agencies is fully in line with the spirit of the WTO. The registered capital of foreign travel agencies is usually not very high. Travel agencies themselves don't need a lot of their own funds. Business itself is the flow of funds and the corresponding profits. Zhou Jinsong, an industry veteran who has worked in overseas tourism bureaus and travel agencies for many years, believes that the low entry threshold of foreign travel agencies is conducive to healthy competition among travel agencies and will give China tourists more choices in route design.