"Travel Company Fake Recruitment Experience Officer Earns Head Fee" Continuation: The company involved has been punished | Company | Travel Company
During the March 15th holiday this year, Pengpai News revealed a new consumption trap of using "recruitment" as a means of transporting tourists to "low-priced shopping groups" in order to earn "head fees". After the report was published, law enforcement and regulatory departments in Hefei and Xiamen quickly intervened in the investigation, and Xiamen conducted special inspections on multiple shopping stores involved.
Recently, Pengpai News noticed that the Hefei Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism have respectively imposed administrative penalties on Anhui Senfan Tourism Consulting Service Co., Ltd. and Xiamen Shunfeng Shunxin Tourism Service Co., Ltd. involved in the matter.
Xiamen Shunfeng Shunxin Tourism Service Co., Ltd. has been administratively punished three times by Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. The screenshot shows confidence in using the Chinese website
According to information on the Credit China website, Senfan Company engaged in travel agency business through solicitation, organization, and other means without obtaining a Travel Agency Business License, violating relevant regulations. On May 17th of this year, the Hefei Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism confiscated the company's illegal gains of 66788 yuan and imposed a fine of 49000 yuan in accordance with Article 95 of the Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China and Article 28 of the Administrative Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China.
On June 1st of this year, Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism ordered Shunfeng Shunxin Company to suspend business for one month for rectification, confiscate illegal gains of 10037 yuan, and impose a fine of 50000 yuan due to "organizing tourism activities at unreasonable low prices, deceiving tourists, and obtaining kickbacks through arranging shopping or paying for tourism projects".
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Pengpai News has noticed that Shunfeng Shunxin Company has been fined, and its illegal activities are related to the low-priced travel group previously reported by undercover reporters.
According to the illegal facts identified by the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, from January 9 to January 13, 2023, Shunfeng Shunxin Company collected a total of 3605 yuan in group fees when receiving a team of 18 tourists, including Xu Mouyan. The total reception cost was 13293 yuan, resulting in a loss of 9688 yuan. In order to make up for losses and obtain unfair benefits, Shunfeng Shunxin Company appointed Zheng and Xie, who were tasked with tour guides, to bring the group of tourists into three shopping stores for shopping activities, and thus received shopping rebates from the three stores, totaling 10037 yuan.
In addition, Shunfeng Shunxin Company was also punished twice in May this year: On May 8th, Shunfeng Shunxin Company was ordered to suspend business for 15 days and fined 30000 yuan for "designating specific shopping places without mutual agreement or at the request of tourists", violating Article 98 of the Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China; On May 26th, Shunfeng Shunxin Company was fined 5000 yuan for violating Article 96 (2) of the Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China by arranging tour guide services for personnel who did not obtain a tour guide certificate.
Administrative penalty imposed by Hefei Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism on Anhui Senfan Tourism Consulting Service Co., Ltd., screenshot confidently used on Chinese website
According to a previous report by Pengpai News, in January 2023, a reporter from Pengpai News undercover entered Anhui Senfan Tourism Consulting Service Co., Ltd. located in Baohe District, Hefei City, Anhui Province. The investigation found that the company was recruiting a large number of "tourism experience officers" on an online recruitment platform. After the applicants undergo offline interviews and training, the company will arrange free group tours as a requirement for the "re examination assessment". The applicants will be sent to "low-priced shopping groups" in Yunnan, Xiamen, Zhangjiajie and other places in batches, and will receive "head fees" of 300 to 500 yuan or even higher from local travel agencies.
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Many job applicants encounter common tactics such as tour guides threatening, intimidating, and forcing them to shop during group trips, often spending thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan.
On January 9th of this year, the reporter and several job applicants were arranged to drive to Xiamen, Fujian to participate in a 6-day and 5-night group tour. During this time, they visited multiple shopping stores where they also performed the same trick of attracting customers. According to the Domestic Tourism Service Contract, the service provider is Xiamen Shunfeng Shunxin Service Co., Ltd.