What's the difference between the sales department of a travel agency and the branch of a travel agency?

There are differences between them in three aspects: institutional nature, establishment requirements and business activities.

First, the nature of the organization.

Sales department: A sales department refers to a branch established by a travel agency in the administrative area of the city or county where it is registered, which does not have the qualification of an independent legal person, attracts tourists and provides consulting and publicity services for the establishment of the agency.

Branch: A branch established by a travel agency that receives more than 654.38+million tourists a year, does not have the qualification of an independent legal person, and carries out tourism business activities in the name of establishing a travel agency.

Second, the preparation requirements

Sales Department: There is no requirement to receive tourists every year.

Branch: The establishment of a branch requires the travel agency to have the scale of receiving more than 654.38+10,000 tourists annually.

Third, commercial activities.

Business Department: Branches can carry out tourism business activities.

Branch: The main function is to attract customers for its travel agencies and provide consulting and publicity services. It is allowed to set up branches, not to sign travel contracts in the name of the sales department, and not to hire or appoint tour guides or tour leaders.

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Conditions for establishing branches

A travel agency that establishes a branch shall meet the following conditions:

(1) received more than 654.38+million tourists throughout the year.

② Enter the top 100 national travel agencies.

(3) The branch manager must obtain the qualification certificate of travel agency manager.

(4) For each branch established by international and domestic travel agencies, the registered capital should be increased by 750,000 yuan and 6,543,800 yuan+5,000 yuan respectively; Every time an international and domestic travel agency adds a branch, the quality guarantee will increase by 300,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan respectively.

Conditions for setting up a retail department

The establishment of a salesroom shall be approved by the tourism administrative department at or above the county level, and shall be reported to the tourism administrative department that originally approved it and the tourism administrative department where the salesroom is located for the record within 30 working days from the date of handling the industrial and commercial registration procedures.

The establishment of a retail department by a travel agency shall be determined according to the needs of business development, and shall be reported to the tourism administrative department for filing, registration and publication. The sales department of a travel agency shall not set up branches, sign contracts in the name of the sales department, or hire or appoint tour guides or tour leaders.

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