Ms. Chen told the media that her father-in-law, Lv Mou, participated in the "low-priced group" tour, but suddenly died during the trip. According to friends and relatives who traveled with them, they were forced to shop from beginning to end, and during the period Lvmou had put forward the body is not feeling well, but still be asked to continue to store, friends and relatives believe that this is the main reason for the tragedy.
When the news came out, netizens accused the travel agency of recognizing money but not people, inhuman. Many netizens also put the spearhead to the tourists, said "their own greedy cheap blame who, this price is not even enough to pay for the road, do not really have a point in mind?", "daily news are reported, this low-priced tours are cheating money"". Low-priced tours are shopping tours, moncler outlet store cheap, children can not handle it?" ...... Regardless of the views held, everyone's antipathy and wariness of low-priced tours is the same.
Hegel famously said that existence is reasonable. This "reasonable" is not our usual sense of reasonable, but the existence of the inevitable meaning of its reasons. So we see that the low-priced tours are "alive and well" and their "reasonableness" is worth exploring.
We will find that low-priced tours are often dominated by the elderly. Many older people work hard all their lives, do not want to spend money, do not know how to travel can also be a kind of enjoyment, their impression of tourism is engraved with the name of the attraction next to the boulder to take a picture, go home to relatives and friends to see, "this place I have been". So as long as there are enough places to go, the price is cheap enough, for them is full of attraction. Some of the elderly may not really know will arrange most of the time for shopping, after all, low-priced tour ads will not indicate "shopping-oriented"; and some elderly will also hold a "I do not buy what can I do" cheap mentality to sign up. But they are too simple, do not know that the guide set more, not to pull out your wallet is not going to stop. As the Changzhou old man in the tour group, its average age of 70 years old and above, the boat also want to stroll around, buy buy, if not consumed by the tour guide will be loudly reprimanded scolding public humiliation, spent money and angry, the loss is not worth the gain.
According to statistics, China's elderly people over 60 years old up to 220 million people. China's elderly tourists have accounted for more than 20% of the country's total number of tourists. This is a very alarming figure, the base is so huge, can be seen in the low-priced tours of the potential market, so the low-priced tours of the existence of the fundamental reason or the market is huge.
How attractive are low-cost tours? For example, the Changzhou old man reported that the group, 9 days to travel to Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Guilin and other 8 cities, the tour fee as long as 998 yuan / person. I'm afraid this price is not even enough for transportation, not to mention tickets, meals, accommodation and other costs, it seems to be very "cost-effective". Is it possible that the travel agency is doing a losing business? Of course not. In order to make a profit, of course, the tour guide will arrange a lot of time to take tourists to the "hometown store" "rip-off store" such a huge profit to spend, the wool in the sheep body, in the final analysis, or to tourists to pay the bill.
Here's another question, where do these older people see the low-priced tours advertised? First, the travel society to the elderly gathered in parks and other places to distribute advertising, and then is to find "child care". According to the industry, travel society and some influential elderly people to establish contacts, such as square dance organizers, community workers, etc., so that they mobilize the elderly around them to enroll in tours, as a reward, the travel society to start the tour fee free of charge. During the trip, in order to increase the success rate of consumption, the initiator will also pretend to actively shop, influence to drive other elderly people to consume, after the end of the tour, the travel society to the initiator of the refund, and give a small gift. The most dangerous is the human heart, travel set deep" ah!
Respect for the elderly is the fine tradition of the Chinese nation, and some of the elderly has become the object of bad business special pit. In fact, in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of elderly travelers, our government in 2016 has promulgated the implementation of the "travel agency elderly travel service norms", a lot of issues have been clearly stipulated, such as "appropriate in the less crowded, easy to manage the regional arrangement of free activities", "? should choose tour guides/leaders with business skills such as emergency physical rescue, general medical knowledge, at least three years of experience as tour guides, and meticulous patience to accompany the whole tour", "If elderly travelers have shopping needs, they should choose shopping places with genuine goods and high quality of service" and so on. These provisions can be said to basically cover the needs of the elderly. These provisions can be said to basically cover all kinds of situations that the elderly may encounter when traveling. But in recent years, these provisions have not been well implemented, and even these low-priced tours do not comply with the provisions.
Every family has an elderly person, and everyone has parents. Only the relevant departments to increase law enforcement and supervision, do the children of the elderly a little more care, to the elderly more popularization of some relevant knowledge, the situation can be increasingly improved. We hope that the elderly tourism market will be sound and perfected as soon as possible, so that the elderly can go to see the world with dignity and ease. As the elderly, should also abandon the "cheap" concept, the travel safety and quality of travel in the first place.