We found many Chinese travel agents claiming they were established in 1950's on their websites, is this true or not?

Answer: This is an absolute cheating. Chinese government did not grant their permission for the establishment of any travel agents until Deng Xiaoping's opening door policy in 1978. If you found any agent claiming they were set up in 1950's, you may have to consider their authenticity and legality.

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Nowadays there are numerous international travel services in China dealing with inbound travel business. However, how should we distinguish the qualified ones from those fake ones? And what kind of China tour operators we can believe?

Answer: Hereunder are some practical tips from experienced tour operators:

1. Just make a phone call to their office at any of your convenient time and see if there is anyone who picks up the phone in a good manner. As a large and responsible travel agent, they should work 24 hours a day x 7 days a week. If not, imagine how about when you encounter some emergencies during the tour, while you could find no one in the agent to help you.

2. Do they have both an international and a domestic toll free number? If not, at least we can tell that they are not a large-scale company. Most of the reliable and big travel services may have their own toll free numbers for the convenience of the customers.

3, Though nearly every travel-related website has some testimonials or feedbacks from their customers, not all of them are reliable. You may notice that some with poor expressions, which were surely composed by the sites themselves, not the real words from customers.

4.Tour price is a very important factor when taking a tour, but please do not only compare the price. Some tour operators offer you quite a low price, while they are unable to provide you an international standard service, even worse they can not operate the tour as they promised you. Taking the meals as an example, they may provide the mass-produced tourist meals for you, which only cost 2 to 3 dollars. You will never have the chance to taste the real Chinese food in some fine restaurants, not mention your own A La Carte meals.

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When having the tour, the guide sometimes will suggest us see the Chinese doctor or acupuncture, is this a good idea?

Answer: We suggest our clients refuse to do that with them, because they may be doing sort of commercial business with the doctors. And we assume the so-called hospitals are not real Chinese hospitals except the doctors there know something about Chinese medicine or acupuncture.