What are the notices of the National Tourism Administration on regulating the outbound travel deposit?

The reporter noted that the national and local tourism management departments have issued a number of documents in response to the rights protection incidents caused by outbound travel deposits in recent years. 2065438+February 2006, the National Tourism Administration issued a notice on regulating outbound travel deposits, requiring for the first time that travel agencies take the form of fund custody with bank participation, and travel agencies and individuals are not allowed to directly collect deposits by cash or cash transfer.

Before the National Day this year, the National Tourism Administration issued the Notice on Standardizing the Operation Behavior of Travel Agencies and Safeguarding the Legitimate Rights and Interests of Tourists, which specifically regulated the behavior of outbound travel agencies to collect outbound travel deposits, and made it clear that outbound travel agencies must adopt the fund custody method with the participation of banks. However, in the survey, many travel agencies did not implement the requirements of bank custody. In Wuhan, Wuhan China Travel Agency said that the deposit was paid directly to the company account. "Make sure it doesn't run away. The travel agency itself has also paid millions of yuan in tourism service quality guarantee to the management department, and will not give up business for tourists' money. "

The relevant person in charge of the tourism management department in many places told the reporter that the current provision that outbound travel deposits are managed by banks is not legally binding. Even if it is found in the process of law enforcement that the travel agency does not follow the regulations, it can only be ordered to make corrections and cannot be punished.

In addition, hosting also faces obstacles in practice. Li Guang, Deputy Secretary-General of Beijing Law Society and Tourism Law Research Association, told the reporter that tourism deposit is a form of bank custody, which requires the signing of an agreement among banks, travel agencies and tourists. Tourists should give the certificate issued by the bank to the travel agency, and then they need the travel agency to issue the certificate and return it to the bank after returning home. The procedure is complicated. "And there are very few banks engaged in this business. In Beijing, only a few banks such as Bank of Beijing, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Standard Chartered Bank are doing it, because this business has no income for banks. "