Source: China Economic Network
On a search platform, if you search for the words "Sichuan tourism", you can display a lot of tour guide phone numbers and WeChat numbers that claim to be Sichuan travel agencies. After inquiry, the reporter found that jiuzhaigou and huanglong three days and two nights tour only had a minimum of more than 100 yuan.
According to the "2021 Sichuan Tourism Route Reference Price" jointly formulated by the Sichuan Travel Agency Association and the Chengdu Travel Agency Association, the reference price for jiuzhaigou and Huanglong three-day and two-night flat season tourism is 680 yuan, and if the travel agency quotation is less than one-third of the reference price, it can be judged that it is an unreasonable low-priced group.
On April 26, the reporter arrived in Chengdu, and at the airport arrival gate, he met the receptionist who claimed to be the Youth Hostel in Sichuan Province, and the price she offered the reporter was only 240 yuan.
Under the strong recommendation of the receptionist, the reporter and his party quoted a three-day tour of Jiuzhaigou Huanglong at a price of 240 yuan per person. Subsequently, a contract was signed at the reception point of the Rongcheng Hotel in Chengdu. The contract shows that only outside the scenic spot to visit two places, Tibetan cultural villages and Tibetan style street tea horse mutual market.
Sichuan Provincial Youth Hostel staff: "There will be places selling plateau souvenirs during the trip, which are all purchased voluntarily, and there is no mandatory." ”
This time the group of a total of 16 people, although the contract did not write the itinerary to have shopping, but in the trip, a tour guide who claimed to be Aaron did not hide anything, directly announced that he would take everyone to shopping, and revealed that he had a shopping commission.
Not only does the tour operator organize unreasonable low-price tours, but the tour guide openly says that he takes kickbacks from shopping stores and claims that this is stipulated by the tourism law. I really don't know if this tour guide really doesn't understand the law, or deliberately distorts the law to mislead tourists?
The next morning, after eating breakfast, the whole group of tourists was directly pulled to a place called Huanglong Tibetan Jade, which the tour guide said was a government-run shop, in order to solve the employment of local people and accurate poverty alleviation.
Aaron, a tour guide of The Youth Hostel in Chengdu, Sichuan Province: "Kunlun jade is not produced in Sichuan, but in Qinghai Province. In the future, doing business, you need to turn around the funds, you can take it to China's three banks - China Minsheng Bank, Pudong Development Bank and Bank of China, do loan collateral, add jade to our appraisal certificate, directly handed over to the bank staff, you can do pawn, a thousand words I think will be combined into one word, is to buy. ”
The reporter quickly consulted through the mobile phone, and the above three banks all denied that they could use Kunlun Jade as collateral for loans.
Apparently, the tour guide was luring tourists. Even about the origin of Kunlun jade, the tour guide's statement is different from what the salesman said.
The reporter dialed the telephone number of the Songpan County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, hoping to understand the real situation.
The staff of the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Songpan County, Sichuan Province: "It is a private shop, not opened by the government, and the tour guide's words should not be believed." If you think like this, Songpan does not produce jade, and we do not know much about jade, in fact, they are jade from other places, and their propaganda is false propaganda. ”
The tour group stayed in Huanglong For nearly two hours, but only one item was purchased in the hands of the reporter, and no other tourists purchased the corresponding jade. Back on the bus, the tour guide Aaron was obviously a little impatient.
Aaron, a youth hostel tour guide in Chengdu, Sichuan Province: "Our government invites everyone here with such a preferential tour fee, how low your tour fee is, how much pressure Aaron has." But, just after we got off these two stops, how much did you spend on our friends in the car? We enjoy such a treatment and service here, it is not equal, we have eaten local, played local, lived local here, we touched our conscience, think about what money we spent when we came here, friends. ”
Seeing that their commission was about to fail, the bus pulled everyone to the Tibetan pharmacy next to the Huanglong Tibetan jade, but the price of medicinal materials was much higher than the market, and even more than doubled, and the purchase enthusiasm of tourists was still very low.
After the end of the three-day and two-night trip, the reporter counted the shopping stores entered by the tour group, and there were 7 places involved in shopping. In addition, the prices of jade, silverware, and dzi are obviously very confusing, and non-professionals cannot distinguish between authenticity and actual value.
According to the current situation seen by the reporter, many low-cost lines in Jiuzhai Huanglong still hide a lot of routines, and the difference between the contract and the actual itinerary is very large. The so-called pure play group actually hides many shopping stores. Is the chaos of the unreasonable low-price tour of Jiuzhai Huanglong that the reporter just experienced an isolated case or a common phenomenon? After returning to Chengdu, the reporter continued to investigate.
At the entrance of the famous scenic spot Wuhou Temple, the reporter has been surrounded by a number of travel agency sales groups holding various propaganda coloring pages, and what the reporter did not expect was that all kinds of unreasonable low-cost tours abound here.
In the end, the reporter chose the project of China International Travel Service, Jiuzhai Huanglong 3 days and 2 nights of 275 yuan per person line. The signing price on the electronic contract is 1360 yuan, while the offline contract is signed for 550 yuan, which is obviously a yin and yang contract. The contract says there are only two shopping malls on the trip, so what about the real situation?
Early the next morning, the reporter embarked on a trip to Jiuzhai Huanglong with more than a dozen tourists, and soon arrived at a place called the Himalayan service area, and the tour guide invited the staff of the service area to get on the bus and explain the matters that need to be paid attention to in the plateau. However, within a few minutes, the staff member began to promote an anti-high reaction product called "Plateau Polyoxy energy".
After the reporter purchased a bottle, he found that in addition to the product name of plateau polyoxygen, there was no function of preventing high reaction in the product manual. On the official website of the manufacturer of the product, there is no word that shows that the product has the function of preventing high reaction.
Judging from its production standards, this is just an ordinary plant beverage, but it has been fooled into a good medicine to prevent high reactions, and it has sold at a high price at once. Scam money is still a small matter, let the reporter worry that if there are tourists deceived by this set of words, just drink this drink, did not take the correct preventive high reaction measures, health problems and who should be responsible?
Over time, the reporter also discovered more routines in the tour group.
Early the next morning, on the way to Jiuzhaigou, the vehicle stopped at Anbei Village, located next to National Highway 544, to experience the life of Tibetans.
The reporter then spent 890 yuan to purchase a necklace pendant for a prayer wheel, but found on an online shopping platform that there was exactly the same product, and the price was only 28 yuan.
On the third day, the tour guide took the reporter into a jade center.
Tour guide: "I also have to rely on everyone's shopping, so that I can get a salary." So I also hope that everyone will buy more here. Of course, there is no compulsory consumption now, out of their own conscience, we should not come out greedy and cheap, pretending to be asleep. ”
Later, after some preparation, the tour guide led everyone to continue into another store...
The contract stipulates that only 2 stores will be entered, but there are actually 6 purchases. These include exaggerated sales of plant-based drinks; Tibetan silver jewelry suspected of being shoddy and exaggerated; jade jewelry stores that use bitterness and blackface.
Recently, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued a reminder to remind consumers: refuse unreasonable low-priced tours, improve identification ability, do not buy tourism products that are significantly lower than operating costs, and do not trust tourism promotion in the name of free tourism, shopping and tourism, etc., or in the form of clubs, health care activities, etc. For group travel, it is necessary to choose a travel agency with legal qualifications and sign a standardized tourism contract. Do not be impulsive in the event of disputes during the tour, pay attention to retaining evidence, and rationally safeguard rights.
Source: CCTV Finance