Dali releases "Ten Measures for Rectifying the Order of the Tourism Market": Those who smear the image of tourism will be held accountable for shopping, operation, order, products, travel agencies, fines, investigations, and punishments
Yunnan Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture recently released ten measures to rectify the order of the tourism market.
Notice requires strict investigation and punishment of illegal travel agency business activities; Strictly investigate and punish acts of transferring, renting, lending, and reselling travel agency business licenses and qualifications; Strictly investigate and punish the behavior of organizing and receiving "unreasonable low-priced tours" teams; Strictly investigate and punish illegal activities in providing tour guide services; Strictly investigate and punish the behavior of inducing, deceiving, forcing or indirectly forcing tourists to shop; Strictly investigate and punish price violations and violations; Strictly investigate and deal with the publication of false information or behaviors that deceive or mislead consumers; Strictly investigate and punish unfair competition behaviors such as commercial bribery; Strictly investigate and punish illegal and irregular business activities of passenger vehicles; Strictly investigate and punish behaviors that disrupt the public security and traffic order of scenic spots.
Article 7 states that units and individuals who intentionally spread false information, maliciously hype up and smear the image of Dali tourism shall be held accountable in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. Business operators shall not engage in false or misleading commercial advertising on the performance, function, quality, sales status, user evaluations, honors, etc. of their products, in order to deceive or mislead consumers. Business operators who engage in false or misleading commercial promotion of their products may be fined up to one million yuan; If the circumstances are serious, a maximum fine of 2 million yuan may be imposed, and the business license may be revoked.
The following is the full text of the notice:
In order to standardize the order of the tourism market, improve the quality of tourism services, and promote the healthy development of the tourism industry in Dali Prefecture, on June 30th, the Office of the Leading Group for Deepening the Rectification of the Tourism Market in Dali Prefecture issued a notice, clarifying ten provisions for the rectification of the tourism market order in Dali Prefecture. It requires all county and state level member units to strictly implement them, strengthen comprehensive supervision, strengthen departmental linkage, and build a good tourism market environment. The specific content is as follows:
1. strictly investigate and punish illegal travel agency business. For accommodation, catering, tourism passenger transport, tourism consulting services, cultural tourism media, photography, commodity sales, ticket sales and other unqualified business or business activities beyond the scope of business activities illegally engaged in travel agency business operations, the illegal income shall be confiscated, If the illegal income is more than 100,000 yuan, the maximum fine of five times the illegal income may be imposed, and the relevant responsible persons may be fined up to 20,000 yuan.
2. strictly investigate and deal with the transfer, leasing, lending, reselling travel agency business license qualifications. Travel agencies and travel agency branches transfer, lease, lend, or resell the illegal income of the Travel Agency Business License and the Travel Agency Branch Record Registration Certificate, and may impose a fine of up to five times the illegal income, and order to suspend business for rectification; if the circumstances are serious, revoke the travel agency Business license; the person in charge directly responsible can be fined up to 20,000 yuan; the person in charge can be fined up to 500,000 yuan; the relevant management personnel of a travel agency whose business license has been revoked shall not engage in the business of travel agencies if it has not been more than three years since the date of punishment.
3. strictly investigate and deal with the organization and reception of "unreasonable low-cost tour" team behavior. Travel agencies shall not organize tourism activities at unreasonably low prices, lure tourists, and obtain kickbacks and other illegitimate benefits by arranging shopping or paying for tourism projects separately. Travel agencies operating "unreasonably low prices" products shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification and confiscate illegal income. If the illegal income is more than 300000 yuan, the maximum fine of five times the illegal income may be imposed; if the circumstances are serious, the business license of the travel agency shall be revoked; for the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible persons, the illegal income shall be confiscated, and the maximum fine shall be 20,000 yuan, and the tour guide certificate shall be temporarily withheld or revoked.
4. strictly investigate and punish illegal conduct of tour guide services. Individuals who have not obtained a tour guide license to engage in tour guide services shall be ordered to make corrections and announced, and their illegal gains shall be confiscated, with a maximum fine of 30,000 yuan.
5. severely investigate and punish induced, deception, forced or disguised forced tourists shopping behavior. It is strictly forbidden for shopping shops, especially scenic spots, along highways, rest areas, stations, docks and other shopping places where tourists are concentrated, to collude with travel agencies or company escorts, and arrange travel teams to shop or sell goods through shopping rebates, rebates, "parking fees", "tea fees", "head fees" and other forms; it is strictly forbidden to force or disguise tourists to enter shopping shops for consumption in scenic spots, performing arts, accommodation, catering and other places where tourists concentrate their activities. Those who have committed the above-mentioned acts shall be ordered to make corrections, the illegal income shall be confiscated, and the maximum fine shall be 30,000 yuan, and the tour guide license shall be temporarily withheld or revoked; if the tour guide license has been revoked for less than three years from the date of punishment, it shall not be allowed to re-apply for tour guide license; if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law. Adhere to the "30-day no reason to return" mechanism. After tourists purchase goods, travel-related businesses have no reason to return the goods within 30 days, and travel-related businesses refuse to implement them without justifiable reasons, they will be included in the tourism "black list" to make an announcement and conduct Focus on supervision, if the circumstances are serious, order to suspend business for rectification; if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
6. strictly investigate and deal with price violations. When selling or purchasing commodities and providing services, business operators shall clearly mark the prices according to law. Those who violate the provisions on clearly marked prices shall be ordered to make corrections, the illegal gains shall be confiscated, and a fine of up to 5,000 yuan shall be imposed. Business operators who violate unfair prices shall be ordered to make corrections in accordance with the law, and the illegal income shall be confiscated, and a fine of up to five times the illegal income may be imposed; if there is no illegal income, a fine may be imposed; if the circumstances are serious, it shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification.
7. strictly investigate and punish the release of false information or deception, misleading consumer behavior. Units and individuals that deliberately spread rumors and maliciously hype Dali's tourism image by publishing false information shall be seriously investigated for relevant responsibilities in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. Business operators shall not make false or misleading commercial publicity about the performance, function, quality, sales status, user evaluation, honors, etc. of their commodities, so as to deceive or mislead consumers. If a business operator conducts false or misleading commercial propaganda on its goods, he may be fined up to 1 million yuan; if the circumstances are serious, he may be fined up to 2 million yuan and his business license may be revoked.
8. strictly investigate and deal with commercial bribery and other acts of unfair competition. If an operator uses property or other means to bribe the staff of the counterparty, the unit or individual entrusted by the counterparty to handle relevant affairs, or the unit or individual that uses his power or influence to influence the transaction, in order to seek trading opportunities or competitive advantages, the maximum A fine of 3 million yuan may be imposed. If the circumstances are serious, the business license shall be revoked.
9. strictly investigate and punish the illegal operation of passenger vehicles. If a passenger vehicle engages in road transport business without obtaining a road transport business license, it shall be ordered to stop the operation, the illegal income shall be confiscated, and the maximum fine shall be 10 times the income; if there is no illegal income or the illegal income is less than 20000 yuan, the maximum fine shall be 100000 yuan. A taxi that engages in business activities without obtaining a business license can be fined up to 20,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan. Taxi drivers who violate the rules such as refusing to take a taxi or charging indiscriminately in their business operations may be fined up to 500 yuan and 200 yuan, points will be deducted from their qualification certificates, and enterprises will be ordered to suspend classes for five days.
10. strictly investigate and deal with acts that disrupt public security and traffic order in scenic spots. Focus on cracking down on illegal acts such as forced transactions, intentional injury, infringement of tourists' personal safety, illegal parking, speeding, and disturbing the order of public places in scenic spots and their surrounding areas, tourist catering, accommodation, night markets and other tourist gathering areas, the public security organs shall investigate the relevant legal responsibilities in accordance with the law.
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