"Now that these medicinal materials have been polished into powder, you can't return them, you must give money to leave."
Recently, tourists Ms. Yu and Mr. Gao and others took a car through a tour group to prepare for a trip to the Lugu Lake scenic area, but were forced to buy 5,900 yuan of medicinal materials at a medicinal herb store in a rest area on the way. At that time, none of them had yet reached the Lugu Lake scenic area.
Tourists were forced to buy nearly 6,000 yuan of medicinal herbs
The police arrested 5 people
According to Red Star News, tourist Ms. Yu said that on March 27, her group followed the tour group to Lugu Lake Scenic Area by car. On the way, they passed a medicinal herb and souvenir store in a rest area, and the staff enthusiastically stepped forward to introduce, "The original price of this is 17 yuan per gram, and I will give you a discount of 7 yuan per gram." ”
At this time, Mr. Gao, who was with her, casually consulted the price and utility of the two medicinal materials, and before they said they wanted to buy, the staff had taken out the medicinal materials and quickly polished them into powder, and said that the price of the two medicinal materials was 5900 yuan.
Hearing the price, she and Mr. Gao were taken aback. Because it was too expensive, the two wanted to return the medicinal materials, but were rejected by the store staff, saying that they had been polished into powder and could not be returned, "They are all polished into powder, they cannot be returned, and they must give money to leave." ”
After the incident, the Yanyuan County Public Security Bureau attached great importance to it, and joined hands with the county's Culture, Radio, Tourism Bureau, Industry and Commerce Bureau, Market Supervision and other departments to rush to the scene to deal with and investigate, and arrested five criminal suspects.
The investigation by the police handling the case found that the three suspects Erche, Wan and Wang were the owners of the store, and they colluded with the tour bus driver and tour guide to bring the tour group into the point, and at the same time diverted the road leading to the tourist toilet, and placed Chinese medicinal materials and native products on both sides of the road for sale, so that tourists who went to the toilet here could only enter the public toilet through this section, the purpose was to promote their own medicinal materials and native products and obtain high illegal profits.
After investigation, since March 6 this year, the store has made a profit of more than 90,000 yuan in this way, and the store has been closed by relevant departments. On March 28, the criminal suspects Erche, Wan, Wang, Cao, and Li had been criminally detained by the public security organs. At present, the case is still being further processed.
Powdering medicinal herbs requires visitors to buy them
A similar incident has occurred in Lugu Lake
Lugu Lake, located at the junction of Yanyuan County in Sichuan Province and Ninglang County in Yunnan Province, is under the joint jurisdiction of Sichuan and Yunnan, with Lugu Lake Town (formerly Zuosuo District) in Yanyuan County in the east and Yongning Township in Ninglang County in the west of the lake.
Located in the Yongning Basin, the Lugu Lake Basin is the third largest deep-water lake in China, with a small island in the lake. The area around Lugu Lake is mainly inhabited by the Mosuo, Yi and Pumi ethnic groups, and there are seven ethnic groups of Mongolian people, about 13,000 people. The beautiful natural environment and peculiar ethnic customs make this a famous tourist attraction. In the area of Lugu Lake, there are Lijiang Lugu Lake Mosuo Cultural Tourism Zone and Liangshan Lugu Lake Tourist Scenic Area.
It is worth noting that this is not the first time that similar incidents have occurred in the Lugu Lake scenic area, as early as 2015, there were relevant media reports.
According to a report by Huaxi Metropolis Daily, in October 2015, Mr. Wei and his family traveled to the scenic area of Lugu Lake, and his mother, Ms. Tian, was resting by an herbal stall, and asked the stall owner about the price of medicinal materials, and the stall owner quoted 25 yuan, Ms. Tian thought it was 25 yuan per catty, and did not ask the unit price, so she bargained with the other party for 10 yuan.
After Ms. Tian grabbed a handful of dendrobium, before she could report the weight, someone took the weighed dendrobium into the hut and processed it. In the meantime, customers are not allowed to enter the room. I thought it would be tens of yuan, but unexpectedly, the other party took out a package of mashed dendrobium and quoted 3,000 yuan.
At this time, the other party said that it was 10 yuan a gram, and Mr. Wei felt that the herbs were too expensive to be worth the price, but the herb stall owner said that they had been processed and mashed into powder and must be purchased. After that, Mr. Wei chose to calm the matter, did not call the police, and gave the other party 400 yuan.
Mr. Wei later checked the information and found that the price of Chinese herbal dendrobium on a well-known online platform at that time was about 0.98 yuan per gram, and the more expensive dried strips were only 3 yuan per gram.
After media reports, the incident was dealt with and Mr. Wei received a full refund.
Strong buying and selling is a long-term "stubborn disease" of the tourism industry
In fact, the phenomenon of "strong buying and strong selling" is not unique to one of the local places, and can be said to be one of the long-standing problems of the tourism industry.
In January this year, according to the Oriental Today newspaper "Wutong Video", on January 28, some tourists broke the news that in a 4A-level scenic spot in Xinyang, Henan, some villagers forced tourists to buy incense, did not buy or let parking, and even beat people, which attracted widespread attention. The video shows an aunt pestering several tourists and constantly asking them to buy incense. After the tourists refused many times, the aunt directly raised the incense in her hand and hit the tourists, with an extremely bad attitude.
On January 31, the staff of the market management office in the jurisdiction responded that occasionally there were indeed cases of forced buying and selling, but they would deal with complaints as soon as they received them. "We will deal with this issue seriously, and we will also strengthen management and education."
The staff member said that the above incidents have been handled in conjunction with public security, scenic spots and other departments, and "the next step will be to further standardize the villagers' incense sales behavior and business order."
On March 19, in the Binzhou Dafo Temple Grotto Scenic Area in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, a video of suspected tourists being surrounded by aunts forcibly selling incense and tickets (Hades coins) circulated online. The video shows three aunts reaching out to tourists with incense and coins they want to sell, several tourists have been rejecting aunts, saying "no more", and on the other side, four or five aunts are still holding goods waiting for sales.
According to netizens who broke the news, he went to the grottoes of Dafo Temple in Binzhou City to play, bought more than 200 yuan of incense and tickets, and before he started burning, many aunts surrounded him to forcibly sell goods, and when burning paper, an aunt put her own tickets into it and burned them together, and after burning, she asked tourists for money.
Later, the Binzhou Big Buddha Grottoes Scenic Area in Xianyang City said that in response to the phenomenon of strong buying and strong selling reflected in the video, they had taken corresponding management measures in cooperation with the Binzhou Fenfeng Street Office. "Because the sellers were all nearby villagers, first we held a meeting with the local village committee to ask them not to sell again; Secondly, our scenic spots will also strengthen patrols to stop such phenomena; At the same time, we will standardize the stalls and sell some souvenirs at designated points, instead of these incense candles and other items. ”
The relevant mainland laws clearly stipulate that consumers enjoy the right to fair trade and have the right to refuse compulsory trading by business operators.
Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Daily once published a commentary on the chaos of "strong buying and strong buying" in the tourism industry, saying: In order to completely eliminate the chaos of tourism such as forced buying and strong selling, it is necessary to reorganize the tourism industry and promote the tourism industry to compete at a high level and at a high level. The fundamental thing is to find ways to strengthen the in-depth development of tourism, and the government and the market work together to enhance the connotation of tourism and increase the added value of tourism products. When the overall quality of the tourism industry is improved, the competitive landscape will naturally be healthy and atmospheric, and tourism practitioners will no longer have to engage in sideways to obtain due benefits.
Tourism is also a cultural industry, not only should not rely on unreasonable forced buying and selling to eat, nor can we blindly rely on the sky and natural scenery to rely on the cultural heritage of the ancestors to appreciate rice, but should give full play to the wisdom and rich imagination of modern people to expand the cultural and creative industry, straighten the waist to earn hard rice, sustainable development rice, but also worthy of the predecessors, the descendants.
Editor|Sun Zhicheng Du Hengfeng
Proofreading | He Xiaotao
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