When facing a great deal of China tour operators, it is easy for tourists to fall into some travel traps such as fake or low-quality tour services, insufficient time and shopping traps. In order to avoid these traps as much as possible, we suggest you choose a qualified travel agency like TravelChinaGuide.com with large-scale and standardized administration. Here are some typical traps for your reference:

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Nowadays there are numbers of travel services in China claiming that they are the leading tour operators in China. However, how should we distinguish the real one from the fake one?

Answer: Hereunder are some practical tips:
A leading tour operator, such as TravelChinaGuide.com, must be a legal one, who definitely has been authorized corresponding licenses and other related documents to run not only business, but also tourist business; a leading tour operator should have been accepted by the authoritative organizations in tourism industry; a leading tour operator must have been professional, experienced and able to offer high-level services; a leading tour operator must be reliable and popular among customers, which can be judged by the feedbacks from real customers; a leading tour operator may have got numerous media recommendations. One may tell if the tour operator is a real leading one by those mentioned means. 
See more details about How to Identify a Real Leading Tour Operator.

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.