What should I do if the tour guide forces tourists to shop during the trip?

Encountering a tour guide who forces you to make purchases is an experience shared by many tourists. If you encounter a tour guide who forces you to make purchases, you can take the following methods to safeguard your rights and interests.

First of all, you can communicate and negotiate with the tour guide to solve the problem. It is very important to communicate with the tour guide on the spot. Be polite and calm.

Secondly, you can complain to the consumer association at the end of the trip or during the trip, or apply for mediation to the tourism complaint handling agency. The local management department can usually solve the problem quickly.

The third way is to submit the case to an arbitration institution for arbitration based on the arbitration agreement reached with the tourism operator, but it must be submitted within three months.

Finally, if none of the above methods can solve the problem, you can file a lawsuit in court.

Of course, in the process of safeguarding rights, for the sake of personal safety, one should not forcefully resist, otherwise you may be personally attacked. When cooperating with the tour guide, you can quietly collect evidence that the tour guide forces or threatens you to make purchases, such as recordings or your own shopping invoices.

In short, when you encounter a situation where a tour guide forces you to make a purchase, you should protect your own rights and interests, adopt appropriate methods to safeguard your rights, and not compromise easily.