Measures for administrative punishment of tourism

Legal Analysis: These Measures are formulated to standardize tourism administrative punishment, maintain the order of the tourism market and protect the legitimate rights and interests of tourists, tour operators and tourism professionals. The implementation of tourism administrative punishment should follow the principles of legality, rationality, justice, openness and the combination of punishment and education.

Legal basis: "Measures for Administrative Punishment of Tourism" Article 8 The competent tourism authorities at or above the county level shall impose administrative punishment within the scope of statutory functions and powers.

Institutions authorized by laws and regulations to engage in tourism law enforcement shall impose administrative penalties in their own names within the scope of statutory authorization and bear legal responsibilities independently for the consequences of such acts.

Ninth tourism authorities may, within the scope of their statutory functions and powers, entrust the tourism quality supervision and law enforcement agencies that meet the statutory conditions to implement administrative penalties, and bear legal responsibility for the consequences of this act. The entrusted institution shall, within the scope of entrustment, impose administrative penalties in the name of the entrusted tourism authorities.

Where the tourism administrative department entrusts the implementation of administrative punishment, it shall sign a written power of attorney with the entrusting institution, stating the name, entrustment basis, matters, authority and responsibility of the entrusting institution. , and report to the tourism administrative department at the next higher level for the record, and announce the name, authorization authority and matters of the entrusting institution to the public.

Entrust the implementation of administrative punishment, you can set the entrustment period.

Tenth tourism authorities at or above the county level shall strengthen the construction of administrative law enforcement team, strengthen the education and training of law enforcement personnel, and comprehensively improve the quality of law enforcement personnel.

The law enforcement officers of the National Tourism Administration shall obtain the administrative law enforcement certificates issued by this Council; Law enforcement officers of local tourism authorities at or above the county level shall obtain administrative law enforcement certificates issued by local people's governments at or above the county level.

Eleventh tourism administrative punishment shall be under the jurisdiction of the local tourism authorities at or above the county level where the illegal act occurred.

Travel agencies organize domestic tourism, and the competent tourism authorities, when investigating the illegal acts of land agencies, shall send the relevant materials or their copies to the local tourism authorities at or above the county level where the package travel agency is located if they find that the package travel agency has other illegal acts. Penalties for illegal acts of outbound tourism organized by travel agencies shall be under the jurisdiction of the local tourism authorities at or above the county level where the tour group is located.