Hong Kong Travel Industry Council Chairman Michael Wu, said today that Parliament will be implemented travel agents and tour guides, "scoring system" and other ten measures to strengthen regulation of the tourism industry, would come into effect next February. Style of the measures has been the Shenzhen Tourism Bureau to support, and requested 36 licensed travel agents in Shenzhen, strictly implement the guidelines.
Ten measures are mainly: Travel must be assigned throughout the reception with a mainland tour groups; travel agents to sign a contract with the tour guide, tour guide to pay basic pay, the fares, commissions and other compensation for services; travel agency can not force unreasonable to assume or advance in the Mainland tour groups money; to introduce travel scoring system, two years at least 30 minutes to suspend or cancel membership; travel agency directors, etc. to declare the registration of shops connected; travel to the mainland group each of the group distributing detailed itinerary; travel agents and tour guides to sign a service agreement; Inbound passengers must hold a parliamentary tour guide license issued; tour points system introduced two years was recorded over 30 minutes, may suspend or revoke the tour guide license; travel agents and tour groups may not be compelled mainland tourists shopping.
In the ten measures, the greatest concern is the introduction of travel agents and tour guides, "scoring system" and "a group from a tour guide."
Said Michael Wu, the Parliament in time for February 1 next year, which aims to prevent the group visiting the Mainland Chinese New Year Golden Week, the peak of the recurrence of the evil of forced tourists shopping guide Jane abusive event. To combat the "Killer" mixed with the mainland group "cheating" and "a group from a tour guide" of measures to allow Parliament a licensed tour guide can be alternates on the mainland ports of entry to meet the group, before noon, took over the tour by an official tour guide. Guide for the protection of revenue, the new require travel agents to sign a contract with the tour guide, listing services rendered, such as basic pay or basic salary, a tour and so on; travel agency can not force unreasonable to assume or advance in the Mainland tour group's funds.
Insiders pointed out that the existing 25 people per tour group the mainland, a group with two days in the tour will receive 1,250 yuan (HK, the same below) tips per month by the conservative group with six 7,500 yuan, 1,800 yuan fare out of six groups, total of 9300 yuan, plus the normal commission of six groups of about 12,000 yuan shopping, a monthly income of 21,300 yuan, the new measures to ensure the guides can be a monthly income of twenty thousand.
Michael Wu, said the mainland visited Hong Kong over Liucheng group tour to Hong Kong via Shenzhen, the Parliament recently on the 10 measures meeting with the Shenzhen Tourism Bureau, Shenzhen, said it would fully support the new measures to inform all travel agents in Shenzhen, requiring travel agents to ensure that tours to licensed tour guides in Hong Kong have received, or would prefer not to cross Mission to Hong Kong.
Said Michael Wu, Hong Kong has no legislation to regulate inbound travel agents legitimate travel agents must cooperate with the mainland, if the Hong Kong reception of unlicensed travel agents to receive inbound tour groups, once the passengers were "slaughtered" complaints to the Tourist Office and Shenzhen Tourism Bureau will not only criticized For inbound travel agents, be blacklisted and banned Shenzhen legitimate social group to the travel agency group, the measures to effectively curb the zero-fare groups, not in these groups, travel agencies will not do anything "cheating."
