From tour group to virtual currency

6. I'm also a member of a tour group on November 11, and I know about how travel agencies make money
first of all, don't overcharge, because he is the car and driver in his own agency, which is much cheaper than the long-distance bus with clearly marked price
Second, they all have fixed hotels, so it's impossible to ask for money from the travel agency according to the price noted in the standard room. They have a long-term cooperative relationship, and of course they will have a discount
Third, what do you eat for three all inclusive meals? Ten people a table of ten dishes and one soup is very profitable, which costs 100 yuan
fourthly, they book the discount tickets from the Internet. I get a 20% discount when I go to Mt. Emei and Leshan, and I don't know how much discount other scenic spots will get.
finally, except for the pure play group, the tour guide takes you to a fixed place for shopping. In two days, I went to at least four places for shopping and tasted tea three times (of course, after tasting tea, I asked you to sell tea), In addition, the tour guide's income is also considerable. The tour guide who took us to Leshan was very generous and told us that one member of the tour group would get 3 yuan, so that one member of the tour group would get less than 100 yuan. If you buy something in the shopping area, he would get a commission of 15 yuan to take a photo with the Buddha in Leshan, He has 5 yuan Commission and so on...
so the travel agency has a considerable income, and always tempts you to follow the group with the banner of not making money, but there are huge commercial interests behind it

7. With the group cheap, you can find a high-quality itinerary, pure play that, with the group to worry about ah, tourism is a both painstaking and physical activity, ha ha.

8. Ha ha, I just signed up for a 1999 yuan shopping group of Bangkok Pattaya traditional line. I can answer this question. The tour fee is 1999 yuan, which is an open price. In fact, I only paid 1500 yuan to find acquaintances. It's 1500 yuan, including round-trip air tickets, 4-night accommodation (Bangkok stays in a small hotel, and when you get to Pattaya, you change to a five-star hotel), 9-meal buffet (the last meal is in a ty-free shop, and you can eat any salmon, so you can know where it's going). Three tour guides plus a driver's escort, round-trip bus fare, and 230 visa fee. Can travel agencies make money like this? Nonsense, of course, can not make money, this is not enough. So they will have the following ways to make money. First of all, the basically compulsory tour guide will send you a price list, which contains the prices of three kinds of ABC packages, including Thai massage, fruit feast, spa, human demon show, alt show and many other items. A is 1600, B is 2000, C is 2300. Our team members went up to chop, and finally cut package B to 1600, Basically everyone chose this, including my wife I chose a, but the package can dect the items I don't want to go to. Before I came here, my acquaintances said that the tour guide basically earns money from this package. If you don't choose a tour guide, you will read it in pieces, get rid of more than 400 spa, and pay 1250). Then someone asked, what should I do if I refuse to choose? We have a couple in our group. No matter how the tour guide reads, they just don't choose. Then the tour guide's private efforts failed, so they had to give up. We went to participate in the self funded project, and they stayed in the hotel (in fact, as soon as we left, they also left and went out to play by themselves). But Pattaya has no taxi, only bus, so it's hard for them to walk in the hot sun. Then the guide was very angry in the car and said that these two people owe him, just want to get, don't want to pay, no conscience. Our tour guide is old and stable. (he said that he is the son of a senior official, and he doesn't want to be an executive. He prefers to be a manager in an office. He is a little old. He has invested in a hotel in Chiang Mai with his friends. He is full of Buddha cards and likes watches. When chatting, he said that his most expensive watch is 280000, which is very professional. He talks about it as soon as he gets on the bus, He said that he would apply for a pension visa after 50 years, and then he would go to Thailand for three months to seal his entry and exit. He stayed in Thailand for a long time, a Hangzhou native). I flew to Thailand 27 years ago, and then my friend flew to Thailand 28 years ago. The tour guide was fierce in 87 years. He went to haggle over the price and refused to cut it down to 1700 in 2000. Some people asked if it could be as low as 1000, and then returned with a state curse. Another news is that the group of 25 people refused to participate at their own expense, and then they left their cars and people in the field for four hours. Later, they called the embassy to solve the problem, and the next day they changed the Thai tour guide. Then, the tour guide will show his jewel rings, snake oil balls and leather bags on the car, saying that these are Thai specialties, which are worth buying. But if your economic conditions are not suitable, don't force yourself to go in and walk out. No one will blame you for having to buy them. On the next day, I went to the leather jewelry center (a crocodile belt of 2500 yuan, a jewelry ring of 15000 yuan). On the third day, I went to the latex boutique (a 7.5cm thick latex mattress, 1.8 * 2 size, charged us 9500rmb. Later, I asked someone about the reserve price, 5000RMB). On the fourth day, I went to the snake medicine center, and a bottle of antidote pill sold for 3600 baht, How about Thai snake medicine Jie pill? On the fifth day, I went to the Buddhist temple and asked for a Buddha card ranging from 2000 to 40000 RMB. Don't say no one bought it. Although we are a low price group, a few guys are still able to consume. We bought 8000 mattresses, snake oil pills, Buddha brand and belts, but we didn't buy any gems. At these points, the crowds are all Chinese tourist groups. In Thailand these days, it's hard to feel that they have gone abroad. When they eat, they listen to Chinese all around, the waiters speak Chinese, when they go shopping, they listen to Chinese, and the scenic spots are all Chinese. Even the human demons speak Chinese fluently (the first human demons I touch, sir, At last, I went through the Thai customs. The official handed me the certificate and said in Chinese with a smile. The third one is the tour program. It's estimated that it won't make much money, and the tour guide doesn't like to push it. I spent 2400 baht on parachute and diving. Diving is not a common free diving. It's just to give you a hood, wear swimming trunks and let you go down. You can breathe freely. Several people are holding hands underwater, feeding fish with bread, touching coral reefs, and I have a diving watch, The time is about half an hour. I won't choose it next time. There's someone there who specially takes pictures for you. A photo costs 100 baht. If you don't want to be photographed, you can turn your head and block your face with your mobile phone. People will know that you don't want to take a picture, but after taking a picture, the guide says you must take it away. Otherwise, if you don't want to be photographed, it's called a posthumous photo. The fourth is the normal tip, leaving the room every day to put 20 baht, to spa to give 100 baht, to massage 70 baht (I'm big, 185, give my massage little brother is very careful to press for two hours, everyone's comments are good, so I added 20 baht to him.) When they finally left, the Thai female tour guide and driver gave 100 baht each Some people give it to you and take it back, which means they look down on you. They have been with you for five days, but they are not willing to pay 20 yuan. It's too much.) The fifth is the self financed projects in various scenic spots. I went to shoot, fired six bullets, collected 300, took 100 pictures with tigers, 20 with elephants, took 100 baht pictures, took 100 baht group pictures, and presented 100 baht flowers. The guide took us to ghost street and bought local procts in the market. It can be seen that he is very familiar with them. The sixth is that the tour guide sells things by himself. Just now, he said that the tour guide strongly recommends snake oil pills and so on. He said that he eats them every day (indeed, he eats them sooner or later). He also recommends them to us. Dry rian, grass oil and soap are also very straightforward. He said that he would make a little money. We should take care of them. Moreover, he said that there are a lot of repeat customers. You can directly add his wechat, What will he say later? He will buy on behalf of him, earn a little Commission, and L'OREAL can earn a lot of money from the ty-free shop. (Thailand is the origin of L'OREAL, a set of 105 yuan RMB, very cheap and domestic). I bought his grass oil after that. Four bottles of 480 plants, one hundred RMB, 600 bottles of green oil 4 bottles for friends. But it's almost half the weight. To sum up, making money is the profit of self funded projects plus shopping rebate and the guide's own sales. When we travel in Thailand for a week, my wife and I spend 8000. If we have good ability, we suggest that we do a good job in strategy and travel freely. We can also recruit partners on poor travel online. The cost is almost the same, but there are no such things, I know more about it. But if my elders want to go, I suggest that they sign up for a pure tour group instead of a cheap one. They like to bargain with the tour guide. Then everyone is very depressed. It's fun to come out (the tone of the tour guide) shows everything

9. The main reasons for the cheapness are as follows:
1. The tickets of scenic spots all over the country will have discounts, and the price of senior group will save a lot of money when calculating the tickets
2. The elderly are generally not as picky as the young people about accommodation and dining. You can note that the general elderly group will never stay in five-star hotels or fly back and forth, which are basically ordinary reception. The elderly group is basically a train, so there is no need to deliberately improve the standard of accommodation, and the price is relatively low
3. For the shopping problem mentioned downstairs, there will be one aspect. Senior tour groups usually have shopping shops, and the travel prices involved in shopping shops will be relatively cheap, but this does not mean that the tour guides of senior tour groups will try their best to cheat. After all, if they are regular tour groups, they are willing to buy and sell, and they will definitely buy what they like. If they really look down on it, they will buy what they like, I don't believe that anything that is useless can stand cheating

10. People have already hinted at you. Why don't you listen
moreover, there is no invoice and no evidence for it.
you have no one to accept your complaint.
remember this lesson!