Yunnan Tourism 1780 yuan, self-funded projects 1000. Are they a shopping group? Is it okay not to shop?

The group you mentioned belongs to a shopping group. There is no compulsory shopping now. You can stop shopping, but the group will stop at the shopping point. The tour guide has no salary and can even pay the head fee to the travel agency to take this tour group. These expenses and tour guides' remuneration will come from customers' shopping rebates and self-funded projects. If you don't shop, the guide's face will be ugly, and you have to buy things in another way. Of course, there are others who won't buy anything.

We can think from another angle. If our children or their relatives are tour guides and take pains to serve tourists, most of the time they bump into each other on transportation. In the morning, the tour guide gets up before the tourists get up. While the tourists are resting, the tour guide is still making arrangements for tomorrow's trip. While the guests were eating, the tour guide was still busy. During the peak season, the tour guide will become a waiter to serve dishes and soup to tourists, so they can't eat or sleep. In this way, tourists don't spend money on things, tour guides don't get kickbacks, and no one is happy when they work hard to lose money. In foreign countries, tipping is a common practice. China is not there yet.

Therefore, during the trip, we can buy some small items that are not very expensive, memorable or local specialties, which is not a big loss for us.

When traveling, you play with your heart. What you buy is worth what you say. Can money buy a good mood?