What is an affiliated travel agency? Is it reliable?

Although the threshold for opening a travel agency is relatively high, I believe many people have heard that a friend worked in a travel agency for several years and then came out to take orders in his own tourism major. How do they operate?

There is a practice in the industry called "affiliate". As the name implies, it is to cooperate with some qualified travel agencies in the form of leasing, that is, as long as you know how to run a tour group, even if you have the resources, you can pay the monthly joining fee. These licensed travel agencies are collectively referred to as * * headquarters travel agencies.

Usually we rent offices or only have desks in designated areas, and contract invoices are also collected in the names of these travel agencies. This kind of affiliated people, at least 1 person, at most dozens of people operate. For customer service, it doesn't matter even if you go to the company for inspection, because such companies provide inspection venues. These fees vary from 1000 yuan to tens of thousands of yuan a month, depending on the services and hardware facilities provided by the other party. Of course, some deposits will be paid at the same time, which will be used to detain the fees in case of complaints and the affiliated operators do not handle them.

Employees who usually join a travel agency have generally worked in a regular travel agency for several years, knowing all kinds of docking inside and outside the travel agency, which not only accumulates certain supplier resources and customer resources, but also can handle all kinds of complaints and emergencies independently.

The advantages of linking are: first, the investment threshold is low; Secondly, since the contract invoice belongs to the brand travel agency, once there is any serious risk, the deposit will be lost at most, but the company that gives the link will also bear the corresponding legal responsibility, so it can be recalled here that when the epidemic began in early 2020, some conscientious travel societies gave customers a refund. Why are some tourists often exposed on the internet and can't get a refund? That's why, if you report to the affiliated travel agency, the headquarters travel agency will not refund the money to the affiliated person, and the affiliated person can't return it to the customer. Another is that the head office has returned the money to the affiliated person, but the affiliated person doesn't want to return it, or because the loss reporting fee has not been settled. After a long time, the business stopped and there was no way to recover. Even if a lawsuit is filed, it will take a long time, because the related party has no money to manage, even if the court files a lawsuit, and usually if the amount is small, I believe the people are not willing to recover it.

After you understand the operation of the affiliated travel agency, you can't say that the affiliated person is unsafe, but it depends on whether the person you are docking is responsible. The customers of the affiliated person are basically regular customers, and they all trust and cooperate with each other. Even if there is a problem, you can still complain to the headquarters, but the process is relatively troublesome, but there is one thing not to worry about, because there is a complaint, which affects the license reputation of the headquarters travel agency, so before the headquarters cooperates with the affiliated person.

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