Three or four hundred yuan to travel to Suzhou and Hangzhou, 1,000 yuan to experience a ten-day tour of Yunnan, and even a tour group buy one get one free, this kind of low-cost group is full of temptation, is it a pie or a trap?
From the voice of many experiencers, the hidden risks of low-cost tour groups dominated by the elderly are not only the frequent diseases in the elderly group, the potential safety hazards of food and accommodation in the itinerary, the contact problems caused by the unskilled operation of the mobile phone of the elderly, and the uncontrollable shopping expenses. Low-cost groups are arranged with shopping points, shopping itinerary even four or five stores a day, generally "the lower the group fee, the more shopping", the main group targeted at the low-price group is the elderly, retirees with money in their hands, also called gambling groups, the group fee can not cover the cost of travel in the background, can only rely on tourists shopping to recover costs and even make profits.
Recently, the state has newly promulgated the "Tour Guide Service Specification" GB/T 15971-2023), which will be implemented on April 1, 2024.
During the tour, if tourists find that the tour guide is conducting induced shopping, they should take a firm stance not to buy blindly, and at the same time take pictures of the on-site shopping scene with their portable devices, and keep the invoice and other vouchers to prepare for the follow-up return and exchange, complaint and report of the evidence of rights protection. In the event of an economic dispute, do not swallow your anger, negotiate with the operator first, and seek complaints and reports from the local market supervision bureau, consumer association, and 12345 mayor's hotline in a timely manner after the negotiation fails, so as to protect your legitimate rights and interests.
This kind of low-cost group can also be regarded as catering to the market demand, middle-aged people can squeeze time to take their children to see the world, with their parents to see the world's planning is mostly put back, the old people work hard all their lives, and they want to experience different scenery in their later years, and now the living conditions are rich, and the old people are ruthless in their hearts, if they want to have a good travel experience, on the one hand, the market will do a good job in supervising the enterprises themselves, and on the other hand, the children will also appropriately share some energy to their parents, and accompany the elderly to go out for a walk.