The National Tourism Administration is currently investigating cases of forced shopping on low-cost tours and other illegal practices by travel agencies.
Zhangjiajie tour guide Yang threatened a tour group with a knife because they refused to go shopping. His tour guide license was revoked by police and his company was fined 50,000 Yuan and forced to suspend tours for six months.
Low cost tours with forced shopping have become an issue all over China, according to the National Tourism Administration. These tours are offered at extremely cheap prices, but have a number of hidden costs. The government hopes to stop these kind of tours and will work with the police and other departments to do so.
The National Tourism Administration opened a complaint hotline for this kind of illegal tourism on May 9. By May 31, the bureau had received 154 valid complaints. 34% were about forced or coerced shopping on low-cost tours.
57% of the complaints were about travel agents or tour group leaders, 16% were about online travel agencies. 14% were about insurance, shops, and cruises, 11% were about illegal day trips, and 2% were about hotels. It appears that complaints could fall into more than one category.
Source:inews.qq.com
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Eh, this is nothing but Chinese greed run amok from both parties. Chinese tourists--did you ever think that a 100 yuan tour package through Guangxi province sounded sketchy, or did you just laugh at how 'stupid' the company must be to offer it and think that you were really 'clever' by taking advantage of it? Chinese tour guides--nothing. The money grubbing shamelessness is just so typical of this place.
Jun 09, 2015 09:49 Report Abuse
Any advantage that can be taken is taken, the tourists were trying pay as little as possible and the tour operators are trying to milk as much cash out of the tourists as possible.
Jun 09, 2015 07:31 Report Abuse
When you live in a society where greed trumps decency what do you expect?
Jun 08, 2015 21:28 Report Abuse
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