The trick of free travel for tour groups

There are a lot of tricks behind the low-priced group. It seems that you can travel for a small sum of money, but in fact you can't eat well, you can't live well, you haven't seen many tourist attractions, but you haven't visited many shopping stores. In the end, not only is it more expensive than other people's pure play trips, but I don't know what I visited.

At present, it is the summer tourist season, and travel agencies or online platforms focus on launching products, which is dazzling. Some tour groups attract attention with "low price". How low is the price? It's cheaper than a round-trip ticket to play by yourself!

Low-cost travel itself is a way for travel agencies to promote sales. The main reason is information asymmetry, especially tourists' one-sided understanding of tourism, and they are not clear about the internal revenue operation of travel agencies. If the travel cost is lower than the cost price, the travel agency will make up for the loss by inducing forced shopping and increasing self-funded items.

Now let's take a look at the tricks behind the "low-cost tour group"!

There are shopping shops in the name of scenic spots in the itinerary, such as: Tibetan grass is suitable for life, Tibetan legend, Tibetan home visit, characteristic folk village, XXX experience hall, XX villa, XXX Expo center, etc., all of which are shopping groups.

In order to reduce costs and reduce necessary expenses. To go to the same scenic spot, there will be a cable car or a cruise ship to pick up and drop off the pure tour group, but low-cost tour groups or pseudo-pure tour groups need to walk or take a car at their own expense.

Today's tour guides will not force you to spend shopping, but will recommend local silver ornaments, local products and other goods, hometown shops and so on. As long as you buy it, you can get a rebate, which means that the cost of the product itself is extremely low, there are quality problems, the selling price is too high, and most of the money is earned by tour guides and travel agencies.

The tour guide will take you to some entertainment such as horseback riding and archery. Although it will not be compulsory, the tour guide will strongly recommend it to you and get kickbacks from these projects.

By increasing the number of free scenic spots, shopping groups and pseudo-pure play groups will add many free scenic spots. A day's play seems to be rich in scenic spots, but the cost is low, deliberately creating the illusion that there are many sightseeing items, and missing the places that are really worth visiting.

In short, the unreasonable low-cost tour means that the operators take advantage of tourists' psychology of being greedy for cheap, attract customers at low prices, and then make illegal profits by cheating and forcing tourists to shop.

For example, the tour guide will keep PUA tourists, constantly control the language, insinuate by innuendo, spend money generously, and listen to the degree of promotion while eating lunch. In order to brainwash everyone and do a good job in the introduction of shopping, the tour guide talks endlessly about stories that don't believe in ghosts and a few words of self-moving proverbs. The introduction of human scenery has passed from generation to generation, and whatever he says will be introduced to jade, Tibetan medicine and Cordyceps. If you talk for hours without pause, you will not have a moment's rest.

Don't ask me how I know, I don't want to recall!

Tour groups are not only tricky, but also have various routines and traps. Don't look at the surface is very cheap, but in fact it is a disadvantage for tourists, there will be many disadvantages!

1. The service quality is low, which affects the tourist experience. Because it is a low-cost group, the fees charged are relatively small, the service is not so attentive, or you are despised. There are even cases where drivers and tour guides abuse tourists. Or force tourists to shop. Poor after-sales service.

2. Guide you to consume high-priced goods, collect commissions from them, guide you to burn "high-priced incense" in temples, take you to luxury brand stores for consumption, and collect high-priced commissions from them.

3. Why is the travel safety not guaranteed at a low price? Cancel some services. If you don't buy any insurance, your travel safety can't be guaranteed at all.

4. Hanging a sheep's head and selling dog meat The Great Wall is the first choice for tourists visiting Beijing. Many people are not familiar with the route. Some travel agencies offer a one-day tour of the Great Wall at a low price, and the tour price is similar to that of the 40 yuan Walking Ticket of Badaling Great Wall. In order to make money, these tour groups will take tourists to Shuiguan Great Wall instead of Badaling Great Wall. It's just similar to the Great Wall, so it's not easy for outsiders to find it. Take you through the back door when climbing, or climb the wall directly to the scenic spot, or some scenic spots have the same name, but the scenic spots you can see are not those that normal tour groups can see. This kind of "civet cats for princes" often happens.

5. In the tour of Fenghuang Ancient Town before other additional fees were added, many people participated in low-cost group tours, which affected the income of the scenic spot. Therefore, in April 2013, Fenghuang Ancient Town began to charge 148 yuan to enter, and the income was collected from the ticket price. Or add fees to children and the elderly, on the grounds that these people increase the travel risks!

My suggestion is to try not to choose low-cost tour groups. You can choose go on road trip. Although the price may be more expensive, it is relatively free and safe. You can go wherever you want and come back whenever you want.