How to prevent fraud and pitfalls while traveling

There are many tricks in the consumption of seafood in tourist attractions. Not to mention that merchants deliberately conceal sky-high prices and maliciously defraud consumers. The most common traps are missing pounds, shoddy products, package swaps and other traps, which make consumers The person spends a lot of money unjustly. Some people may say that since you are traveling, you have to spend more money. Little do they know that businesses are seizing on tourists’ psychology to drive up prices, engage in fraud, and infringe on the interests of consumers.

Countermeasures: It is recommended that tourists ask several restaurants to compare prices. To eat seafood, go to the seafood market and process the seafood directly after buying it, so as to enjoy one-stop service. Before ordering food or buying souvenirs, negotiate the price first. It is recommended that you bring your own small scale, "negotiate the price first and then use the scale."

2. Accommodation: If you stay in a sea-view room, it is not a quasi-star hotel.

It is said that "the entire stay is a quasi-five-star" or "equivalent to a five-star" hotel. Commonly seen in tourism advertisements, such slogans often give people the illusion that the accommodation conditions are good. In fact, this is a situation where unscrupulous merchants have figured out that mass tourists are not familiar with the standards and regulations of the tourism industry, and use vague expressions to deceive consumers.

When it comes to sea view rooms, many people can imagine the pleasant scene of "facing the sea, with spring flowers blooming". However, in order to make profits, businesses now even label rooms that can only see the sea from a certain angle as sea view rooms. It would be really cheating for anyone to book a sea view room like this.

Countermeasures: Consumers should ask the travel agency to clarify accommodation issues before signing up, and observe whether the hotel has a star sign with several stars hung in a conspicuous position when checking in. In addition, in the international hotel industry, star-rated signs are not hung in conspicuous locations. The hotel brand itself represents the corresponding star standard. If you are a consumer traveling independently, you should decisively ask to change rooms when you encounter a sea view room that can only see the sea from a certain angle.

File picture taken by China News Service reporter Chen Wen

3. OK: If you are thrown out of a group for no reason, don’t easily take a roadside bus to solicit customers during a self-guided tour

Many tourists will have this experience. They obviously signed up for a tour group from travel agency A, but only found out when the tour group was sent that the group they participated in was a tour group from travel agency B. The reason was that some travel agencies accepted too few consumers to form a group. Without the knowledge of the consumers, they transferred these registered consumers to other travel agencies, and other travel agencies Responsible for leading the group. The author once encountered the experience of being grouped into a group, which resulted in the embarrassing situation of two groups fighting for a roasted whole lamb, which was really infuriating.