Many tours operators are now using various promotions or low-cost advertisements to attract more customers. In their advertisements, there is no charge for fees of joining tours group, China Hotels, and food. And 
customers only need to pay for the tickets of traffic, entrances. That sounds quite cost-effective, but the old saying is that there is no such thing as a free lunch. For example, an old couple complained to the journalists that they were forced to buy some jewelry in the Guangzhou Tours, otherwise they need to compensate to the tours operator by RMB 500. So how to avoid coming across such lousy things and damaging your trip? Here are some tips for you to follow.
Choose travel agencies carefully. Before booking your trip packages, you would better check the travel agency whether it is registered in the StateAdministration for Industry & Commerce of the People’s Republic of China. These information can be seen on the website (http://www.saic.gov.cn/english/index.html) or contact them by phone or 
emails. If you make the reservations online, choose the search results from well-known travel search engine websites, like expedia, kayaka, and tripadvisor. Since these website have been operating for a long time, the tour service providers from these websites are already carefully reviewed before they signed the contract. Also you could type the name of travel agency in google, and search if they have bad history or complaints.
Do not dream free lunch. Although no charge or low cost of tour services is quite alluring, it does not mean you could just spend such a small amount of money during the trip. The usually tricks of such travel agencies are dividing those fees into several items during the trip and forcing members to
buy a lot expensive “souvenirs” in shopping malls. Also they play some tricks on the languages of describing the tour lines and packages. For example, the “four flights of Tibet travel” is cheaper than “two flights to Tibet travel”, because the so-called “four flights” is actually meaning connecting flights which are more time-consuming than the “two flights”. And in the description of visiting places, it seems like that these lines are covering a lot of spots, but people who are familiar with these will know that those viewing spots are in the same and not worthy place. So research these descriptions and visiting places of the tour package at first. For “persuading” members to go shopping, some travel agencies will add a lot of such “shopping lines” during the trip and it is time consuming. For instance, a traveler complained about the Hainan tour packages. Travelers are guided to a “Tea Show”, and the performances will continue until somebody really buys something there.
Leave the evidence and report to related bureaus. If you unfortunately have experienced these lousy tricks during the trip, you should guarantee your rights and refuse to be forced buy expensive stuffs. Also you would better persuade other members to refuse these improper tricks during the trip together, while you guys are threatened by the travel agencies. Remember to leave all related evidences, such as taking photos, videos or recording voices, and report to the administration offices. If you have come across such things, make your complaints to the local Travel Bureaus where the travel agencies locate as soon as possible. The website for such bureau in Beijing is http://www.bjta.gov.cn/qyfw/bsxz/291476.htm. And follow the process of making complaints. If you are not sure about the contact information of your local travel bureaus, you could dial 114 and ask the phone number.
I understand that experiencing such traps in travel agencies is quite disgusting. But it could be avoidable if you have well prepared and done some homework before booking your tour packages. If you do want to choose your own combinations of trip, you can go to our website and pick from a lot of airlines in China, especially the Guangzhou Flights to visit 2010 Asian Games after the Shanghai Expo exhibition.
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