I've encountered tourist shopping tours, but not one with forced shopping, and the final outcome was fine.
Recently, a news story was told about a tourist, Minnie, and a friend who signed up for a six-day, five-night tour of Yunnan, where the tour fee was only 1,580 yuan, and the tour guide said that each tourist was assigned a pickup attendant to get hold of the tourists' home addresses to blackmail them into shopping, and the tourists were divided into three levels of consumption: the working class consumed 3,000-8,000 yuan, the white-collar consumption of 8,000-20,000 yuan, and the boutique consumption of 20,000-20,000 yuan, and the tourists were divided into three levels of consumption.
The tour guide must have violated the law and threatened the citizens' personal data.
This reminds me of what happened to our family a few times to participate in tours with shopping, I remember that it was around 2008, my mother took me to Guilin with my cousin and my cousin, our three children were still in the middle of the holidays of junior high school to high school, when the tour group was enrolled.
As the saying goes, the landscape of Guilin is the best in the world.
I have to say that the landscape of Guilin is still very beautiful, in a few days of travel itinerary, the most memorable is the boat tour Li River, this trip is really slow, other attractions, as long as it is on land are particularly rushed, it has been a lot of years, and can not remember the specific itinerary, I only remember that the tour guide pulled to go to the 3-4 times to shop, and finally the day of the departure of the day also took us to buy The last day we left, he took us to buy local specialties.
This has a jade store, health care store, there are all kinds of shopping stores we can think of, because we travel did not meet the shopping group, so there is not too much preparation, that time the whole family did not have a credit card, cash each person also only brought a few hundred emergency, I remember only in the jade store to buy a string of glaze.
The experience of this tour is really poor, but the guide did not force us to shop, he just brought us to the shopping place, and then a variety of good words to persuade everyone to buy things, and then a few shopping points because we do not have much money, the guide simply let us sit in the car and wait for them to shop the end of the feeling that the guide is okay!
Then my mother went to Hong Kong in 2016 to play once, there are also shopping sessions, the experience is also good, the guide did not force everyone to buy things, just have no will remind everyone to buy things, and then my mother bought two watches back, but also bought a jade bracelet and a video camera, all in all it is okay!
While I have not encountered forced shopping tours, I have seen some and Minnie similar experience of the news, once saw a customer complaint tour news is because the tour group forced them to go shopping, buy things, if there is not buy things, the guide will sneer at them, the door and people guard, do not buy not let leave, they travel home after the like the local The relevant departments have reported it.
China's "Tourism Law" has clear provisions:
Article 35, paragraph 1 of the travel agency shall not organize tourism activities at unreasonably low prices, luring tourists, and by arranging shopping or other paid tourism projects to obtain kickbacks and other improper interests. Article 98 travel agencies in violation of the provisions of Article 35 of this Law, the competent department of tourism shall order rectification, confiscate the illegal income, ordered to suspend business rectification, and impose a fine of 30,000 yuan or more than 300,000 yuan; illegal income of 300,000 yuan or more, and impose a fine of more than double the illegal income of more than five times the following; the circumstances are serious, the revocation of the travel agent's license to operate the business; on the directly responsible for the supervisory personnel and other directly responsible personnel
The travel agent business license, the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible personnel, confiscate the illegal income, impose a fine of more than 2,000 yuan of less than 20,000 yuan, and suspend or revoke the tour guide license.
So when you encountered forced shopping or coercion during the tour, take up the legal weapon to defend your rights, even if you can't report it in time during the tour, you can choose to reflect the problem to the relevant departments after the end of the tour to defend your rights!