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.
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.
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.