In recent months, dumping tours appear to be on the rise as tourist agencies aim to capitalise on Chinese tourists. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Some tourists who join tour package groups in Seoul have to spend more than what they had paid for or intended to buy – they are ushered to shops and forced to buy overpriced products, including duty-free items, nutritional supplements and cosmetics.Earlier in October, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced it would take stern measures on “low-priced dumping tours”, which taint the city’s reputation as well as cast a shadow on the tourism sector’s post-pandemic recovery.
Besides being forced to buy items, tourists on dumping tours have to pay extra if they want to participate in “optional tour activities” when they visit tourist spots, which are mostly free to enter, even though the all-inclusive package tours guarantee visits to the city’s major tourist sites.These illegal and unfair practices usually involved unlicensed tourism interpreter guides who are known “tour conductors”.
In recent months, “dumping tours” appear to be on the rise as South Korean tourist agencies aim to capitalise on Chinese tourists, said the report without providing further details.to South Korea. The move was estimated to lead to 800,000 more travellers and raise South Korea’s gross domestic product by 0.06 per cent in 2023, said the Bank of Korea in a report by The Korea Herald in August.
During the authorities’ crackdowns, the officials found one unlicensed “tour conductor” and three “sitting guides” on the spot. Sitting guides mean licensed guides who are hired to sit on the tour bus, instead of guiding the tourists.
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