On December 15, the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Detachment of the Culture and Tourism Market under the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism issued a "Notice to Citizens and Tourists" to remind citizens and tourists to be careful of the trap of "prepaid tourism products"!
Recently, many citizens have complained through citizen services**, city message boards and other channels: some tourism companies in the name of developing members, handling VIP, paying money to send high tourism product rebates, etc., induce citizens who are willing to travel to sign a one-time payment of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan of product contracts. After the citizen signs the contract and pays the money, the travel company does not perform the contract for various reasons, and the citizen asks for a refund, not only can not get the money back, but also pays high liquidated damages.
Some of these travel companies do not have travel agency business qualifications (do not apply for travel agency business licenses). Their mode of passage is: the travel company and the citizens and tourists signed a written contract, agreed by the travel company to provide a number of packaged tourism product lines, citizens and tourists according to the *** purchase (a one-time payment of less than 10,000 yuan, more than hundreds of thousands of yuan), if the citizens and tourists do not travel according to the agreed travel routes, the travel company will return the corresponding amount or rebate every month according to the original price of the travel route. This kind of contract is actually a contract for the sale of prepaid tourism service products, not a package travel contract. There are great risks and hidden dangers in this model, if the tourism company can not be cashed out according to the contract, the person in charge is lost, and the company is empty, etc., the payment paid by the public is very likely to be "lost".
It is understood that similar marketing behaviors have emerged in an endless stream across the country in recent years. In 2019, Wuhan Bokang Aixin Travel Agency announced that "according to the payment of 20,000 yuan per person, enjoy lifelong tourism, and guarantee a refund of 6,000 yuan at the end of the year;."Tourists pay a 'publicity ambassador' fee of 10,000 yuan, and the development of 4 members will return the principal in the next month, and they can also enjoy the first-class tourism" and other ways to sell travel prepaid cards. Bokang Aixin Company was unable to fulfill its promise in the later stage, causing a lot of financial losses to citizens and tourists. The company's operating license has been revoked in accordance with the law.
Zhang Wei, a lawyer at Hubei Dasheng Law Firm, pointed out that "prepaid tourism products" are facing huge risks in the name of pre-depositing more and more discounts. He suggested that when tourists choose tourism products, they should carefully choose tourism consumption patterns in the form of travel cards or membership cards that require prepayment.
At present, for a small number of enterprises to carry out such prepaid sales in the name of "promoting and giving away tourism products", the cultural tourism, public security and other departments have successively intervened and carried out investigation and disposal. The departments of culture and tourism, public security and other departments hereby remind that due to the suspicion of illegal fund-raising in the form of prepayment, the method is hidden, and the public needs to deposit a large amount of funds, there is a great potential risk to the safety of funds. It is hoped that the general public and tourists will be vigilant, rational consumption, prudently choose tourism products, resist false lobbying, and strengthen the prevention of market risks.
First, when traveling, you should choose a regular travel agency and sign a travel contract, and pay attention to check whether the business license of the travel agency and the business license of the travel agency are consistent with the official seal on the travel contract.
The second is to be vigilant against the WeChat circle of friends, WeChat QQ group propaganda of tourism product routes, do not be blinded by free low prices, gifts and other content, sign up for the tour should be cautious and rational to verify the identity of the information publisher and sign a written travel contract, the tour group must be paid to the travel agency to the corporate account.
The third is not to buy and sell more than two routes of tourism products (that is, two or more package travel products), and believe in the promise that you can get all kinds of discounts and rebates by paying in advance. Adhere to the "one tour, one sign" and "one group, one sign", and the group payment must correspond to the signed travel contract and the invoice issued.
Fourth, if you need to pay a large amount of outbound travel deposit, you must take the fund custody method with the participation of the bank, and hand over the deposit to the bank account of the third party custodian, and do not hand over the outbound travel deposit to the corporate account of the travel agency or the personal account of its staff.
Fifth, pay more attention to the consumption tips, reminders, warnings and typical cases issued by the public security, cultural tourism, market supervision, consumer associations, "dealing with non-compliance", and financial regulatory departments, and guard their "money bags". If you have any questions, you can call 12345 at any time to consult with the public security, cultural tourism, market supervision, consumer association, financial supervision and other departments.