In order to compete for customers, travel agencies have launched various "special offer groups" and "boutique tours", especially for high-quality customers with strong purchasing power, travel agencies even do not charge a penny.

Source: CCTV News Client

Summer is approaching, and the number of tourists choosing to travel to Hainan has also increased, and individual tourists have become a popular business for Haikou travel agencies. In order to compete for customers, travel agencies have launched various "special offer groups" and "boutique tours", especially for high-quality customers with strong purchasing power, travel agencies even do not charge a penny.

"Hainan Boutique Tour", the minimum price is only 50 yuan for three days and two nights. The attractions include the national 5A-level scenic spot Nanshan Buddhist Cultural Garden, the national 4A-level scenic spot Tianya Haijiao, the national 3A-level scenic spot Yalong Bay Beach , etc. There are no self-paid attractions or self-paid projects throughout the whole process.

What medicine does the travel agency sell in the gourd? Is it really a loss to make a lot of money? CCTV reporters recently secretly visited some travel agencies in Hainan that call high-quality and low-priced tours.

Why did tourists pay 100 yuan? Why did they sign a 980 yuan contract?

Recently, the reporter went to Hainan Nanguo Scenic Travel Agency through a street salesperson, and the two of them paid a travel fee of 200 yuan. On the tour bus, the travel agency asked each person to sign a tourism contract. The reporter noticed that the travel fee stated in the contract is 980 yuan per person.

Hainan Nanguo Scenery Travel Agency Staff:

Don’t worry (980 yuan on the contract), this is the contract (price) stipulated by the Tourism Bureau. Your fees have been paid (100 yuan).

Among the 24 tourists who were traveling with the reporter, except for the two 70-year-olds who did not participate in shopping, each paid more than 400 yuan, most of them paid a travel fee of about 200 yuan, and some tourists even did not pay a penny and traveled to Hainan for free throughout the whole trip.

According to insiders, the cost of travel in Hainan for three days and two nights includes ticket fees for attractions (about 200 yuan), transportation fees (about 200 yuan), accommodation fees (about 100 yuan), catering fees (about 100 yuan), and the salary of relevant staff (about 100 yuan). These combined cost is about 700 yuan. Hainan Province stipulates that the guide price (hisan travel for three days and two nights) is 980 yuan per person. If it is lower than 70% of this guide price, that is, the cost of less than 700 yuan will be classified as an unreasonable "low-price tour".

still relies on "shopping". It's just that the routine is deeper

The three-day and two-night "Hainan boutique tour" that the reporter participated in can be so low. What support does this price difference depend on? It all depends on the well-known "shopping"!

According to my country's " Tourism Law ", travel agencies shall not organize tourism activities at unreasonable low prices, lure tourists, and obtain rebates by arranging shopping or paying separately for tourism projects.

Although there is no shopping store on the three-day and two-night "Hainan Boutique Tour" schedule that the reporter participated in, the travel agency will tell customers that they must enter the shopping store. Every scenic spot in Hainan has a shopping store, and there are full-time tour guides in the store, which is called "insider" in the industry. An insider said that the current Hainan "shopping group" is no longer entirely relying on tour guides to fool the car, and the "internal guide" in shopping stores has a greater role and the routine is still very deep.

Step 1: Take tourists into the "shopping box"

0 Outlet Thailand Pavilion is a shopping store specializing in latex mattresses. The tour guide first introduced the history of rubber planting in Hainan to tourists, and then brought everyone into a small room that specially received the tourism team. It is called the "shopping box" in the industry. Afterwards, the tour guide began her "performance".

Step 2: The tour guide starts to fool "Mattresses can cure all diseases"

The tour guide said that ordinary mattresses are prone to breed mites, while latex mattresses do not breed mites because there is a natural antibacterial ingredient in latex - oak protein. Oak protein is the penicillin in plants and can naturally kill mites and remove .

In order to make tourists believe her statement, the commentator conducted a comparison test on the spot. She put a sponge into the reagent containing mites and bacteria, and the color of the reagent did not change; she put a piece of latex in it, and the color of the reagent changed like a magical change, and the original black water turned into clean water.

The reporter noticed that the tour guide did not provide a test report that the authoritative testing department confirmed that the latex mattress will not breed mites. At present, no authoritative departments and experts confirmed the claim that oak protein sterilizes mites and removes mites. "Penicillin in plants" is even more false and nonsense.

The tour guide also fooled tourists. Latex mattresses can protect the body and can relieve and treat rheumatoid diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, lumbar disc herniation, etc.

According to my country's "Advertising Law", except for medical, drug, and medical device advertisements, any other advertisements are prohibited from involving the treatment of diseases. Medical terms or terms that may easily confuse the promoted products with drugs and medical devices. What the tour guide said, "Latex mattresses can relieve rheumatoid diseases" obviously violates the Advertising Law and is suspected of false propaganda.

Step 3: "Discount" to sell goods, the mattress profit is the highest than 10,000!

The tour guide said that their stores are sold directly in factories, so the price is the best (8,680 yuan after discount). It is understood that the latex mattress sold at Wanning Outlet Thailand Pavilion was produced by a company in Zhejiang Wenzhou . The reporter logged into the Tmall flagship store of this manufacturer and found that the price of the shopping store is more than 5 times higher than that of the manufacturer's flagship store.

000 Ning Outlet Thailand Pavilion has a specification of 10 cm thick and 1 meter 5 wide latex mattresses, while the manufacturer's flagship store is only 1,449 yuan, with a price difference of up to 7,231 yuan; the Xinglong Overseas Chinese Rubber Museum has a specification of 15 cm thick and 1 meter 8 wide latex mattresses, while the manufacturer's flagship store is only 2,619 yuan, with a price difference of up to 11,361 yuan.

According to insiders, it is precisely because of the amazing profits of latex mattresses that it has become a must-promote shopping project for various tourist routes in Hainan. There are no less than 5 latex mattress shopping stores frequently visited by tourism teams. Such a rich profit as

naturally explains how the wool that comes from the sheep was cut off, and also explains from one aspect why low-priced tours are constantly banned.

As early as 2015, Sanya City issued the "Tourism Shopping Points Business Standards", which prohibited the establishment of any form of private rooms to engage in business activities. However, the reporter found in Sanya that many shopping stores still sell things in "shopping boxes", and the "internal director" is still talking nonscrupulously when promoting products.

The commentator recommends the "Shartai Brand" Shaweikang Soft Capsules to tourists

" Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China " Article 35 stipulates that travel agencies shall not designate specific shopping places and shall not arrange additional paid tourism projects. In fact, we see these shopping places either in tourist attractions or disguising themselves as tourist attractions. The products sold range from latex mattresses to soft capsules to coffee.

reporters found that Sanya Junyi Trading Co., Ltd., which sells "Shatai" brand Shaweikang soft capsules, is located in the national 3A scenic spot - Conch Girl Cultural and Creative Park;

sells latex mattresses, is located in the national 3A scenic spot - Wanning First Outlet Cultural Tourism Zone;

packages shopping stores into attractions including Wanning Xinglong Coffee Culture Expo Park, Myanmar Jade sold by Sanya Meilan Cultural City, and crystal pearls sold by Sanya Bay Meihui Mall.

All of these six shopping stores have "internal guides" explanations without exception, and 4 of them have set up "shopping boxes" in violation of regulations.

Insider told reporters that to put it bluntly, it is actually an act of a gang committing crimes. From receiving customers to operating customers to this shopping store, the inner director in the shopping store takes out the product, and then a complete system has actually formed a gang fraud.