The income of tour guides is usually relatively high. For every 1,000 yuan spent by tourists, the tour guides can earn almost 100 yuan, and some are even higher. Therefore, the monthly income of tour

The income of tour guides is usually relatively high. For every 1,000 yuan spent by tourists, the tour guides can earn almost 100 yuan, and some are even higher. Therefore, the monthly income of tour guides is on average several times or even dozens of times that of ordinary white-collar workers. In Yunnan dialect, making money is called "bitter money". Tour guides usually refer to it as "a penny" when it costs 1,000 yuan, and "a pound of money" when it costs 10,000 yuan. Therefore, when you hear a tour guide or driver in Yunnan talking about how much hardship it costs, , just say a few cents or a few kilograms of money. So since tour guides can get about 100 yuan for every 1,000 yuan they buy, how much rebates do shopping stores give to tour guides and travel agencies? Let’s take 10,000 yuan spent in a jade shop as an example to explain the commission process and amount. As soon as the guests arrive at the door of the store, each person is given a card, which is said to be a visitor card. These cards are used to record the number of people. How many cards were issued are called the number of heads. Each head costs 10 yuan, which is given by the store to tour guides and travel agencies. Yes, even if you don’t buy a penny, you still have to give it. Guests need to show their card when shopping, and they will know which group they belong to and which tour guide they are. The tour guide usually makes an appointment with the guests to get on the bus, and after the guests get on the bus, they tell me to collect points. They say that the points can be used to collect things at the end of the month or the year. If a customer purchases 10,000 yuan at Cuixi Jade Store or Jinglan Jade Store (I believe tourists who have been to Yunnan know one of these), then the tour guide can withdraw 4,000 yuan on the spot. For every 2,000 yuan spent, there will be 100 yuan left. RMB red envelopes are given to drivers and tour guides, and whichever travel agency signs the contract can also receive a rebate of 2,000 RMB at the end of the month. If the travel agency spends better, it can give 2,500 RMB. And at the end of the year, there is an annual rebate. Those are How much, I don't know. Going to an essential oil store is even more exaggerated. Tour guides usually give guests a discount card, saying that it is a gold card they applied for themselves, which allows them to get a 30% discount on the listed price. When shopping and paying, use the tour guide’s card to buy things. The tour guide is very worry-free, and tourists I thought I was getting a huge advantage, but the commission on essential oils can be raised to 50 on the spot, not counting the gifts and red envelopes given to tour guides. At the end of the month, 20-30 will be returned to the travel agency, which means that for every 10,000 yuan purchased, shopping points The rebate of 8,000 yuan to tour guides and travel agencies is even higher.

Colorful Yunnan is a place that every tourist must go to. Here every tour guide should welcome tourists to taste tea here. To put it bluntly, it is shopping. Colorful Yunnan is known as an attraction, and it does not count as entering the store. In fact, everything is sold here, and it is really a shopping spot. Tour guides usually say that Colorful Yunnan is a concurrent project of the 1999 World Expo. From 1999 until the day tourists came, there was no one here, ranging from bananas worth 1.5 yuan a pound to emeralds worth 36 million yuan. If you find a fake product for sale, you will be compensated ten for each fake product. And the prices are clearly marked, so I hope you won’t lose face by haggling. Therefore, tourists usually feel at ease when spending money in Colorful Yunnan, thinking that they are not shopping. In fact, things here are the most expensive. What costs 100 yuan outside, can be sold here for 800 yuan. Only cigarettes are about the same price as outside, but cigarettes are the most expensive. There is no commission, so if you buy cigarettes worth several thousand yuan, the tour guide will never give you a good look.

Usually, the tour guides are very eloquent. They say that jade is produced in Yunnan, Myanmar, and is processed in Yunnan. How cheap it is in Yunnan, and that jade breaks people's safety, people raise jade, jade nourishes people, etc. They conquered tourists with a series of stories such as Pu'er tea's multiple effects, impressed tourists with essential oil products for breast enhancement and whitening, and extremely strange usage methods, and recommended medicinal materials with lies that tourists were not in good spirits and their sexual function was not as good as before. Although they brought What the tourists bought were not fakes, but while they were paying on one side, they were counting their money on the other side.

Although I am not a great sage who eats fast and chants Buddha's name, I am not an unscrupulous person who is eager to make money. Every time I am convinced by tourists and let me buy this and that, When I was counting money again, I felt vaguely uncomfortable, so I deliberately explained in a shallow way. Although I am not a bad tour guide, I have never been included in the ranks of "quick knives".

Because of the increasing guilt in my heart, I chose to quit the tour guide circle and joined a travel agency as a scheduler.

Working in a travel agency is not as easy as working in an office. The quotations are varied every day because there are too many categories for customers, and because there is a big difference between the two-star standard and the three-star standard, the customer may need to reconsider their consumption level, so when accepting a group, it seems very necessary to judge the situation by yourself. Let’s not talk about these for now, just talk about the operation process after taking over the next group and how our boss obtains huge profits from gambling.

Operating a group is nothing more than booking a car, room, meal and tour guide. Of course, the cheaper the garage is, the better according to the standard. You don’t have to worry about meals. You can eat at any place that accepts tourist groups with a ten-yuan meal price. The main thing is to arrange tour guides. When I arrived at the travel agency, I learned that it turned out that a Beijing customer could pick up the goods at a cost of 800 yuan less than the cost. This concept scared me to death at first, which meant that a Beijing team of 20 people would lose 16,000 yuan if they did not shop. But even so, it is still very hard to grab a tour group. When tourists arrive in Kunming, they become like commodities for traffickers. There is a price here, and there is a price here. Whoever has the lowest price can be sold to whomever. Some tourists We even sold it to a dozen travel agencies from one travel agency and finally sold it to the cheapest travel agency. The boss said that if the competition with us is only 20 yuan away, we should take over the pictures at a lower price and gamble. The tour guide is also a full-time veteran tour guide of our agency. This kind of group usually uses this kind of "quick knife". The first group I came to operate, the shopping amount reached 80,000 yuan, which means that our total *** commission can reach close to 50,000 yuan. Excluding the tour guide’s commission of more than 8,000 yuan, and excluding the loss of 16,000 yuan, The profit of our boss's group is about RMB 25,000. In the past, I only knew that tour guides earn a lot of money, but I didn't expect that this kind of "quick knife" can earn such a high income, and that travel agencies can gamble so much. At first I thought I was lucky to meet this group, but after I stayed in a travel agency for a long time, I realized that most of this kind of gamble can be paid back. Even if they don't make any money, most groups can still make money. If we lose money once in a while, the travel agency will not take it seriously. After a month, our boss can earn hundreds of thousands at least. And if you are lucky and meet a tourist who can place a "satellite", which means someone who purchases more than 100,000 yuan, you can make a lot of money in one go. If millions of "Stars of David" were released, it would be even more exciting overnight.

Of course, everyone is happy to meet a good group, but the travel agency will still be very angry with a particularly bad group. The groups are also divided into regular groups, senior groups, teachers groups, student groups, series groups, etc. Because the consumption level of the elderly, teachers, and students is relatively low, they have to pay more when receiving this kind of tour. If they do not pay, they will forcibly collect the money from the guests, or they will confiscate the ID card and ask the tour operator to pay more, or simply intimidate the tourists into giving up. They called the organizing agency. Otherwise, if you really can't add more, let the tour guide and driver leave the guests on the road. This is called dumping the group. With the development, regular groups that do not do well in shopping are gradually becoming the group that is dumped, and the tour guides and drivers also brag about the process of dumping the group and are proud of the experience of dumping the group. As for the series group, it is because people from one unit came to shop for the first time and were deceived. After comparing many places and knowing that they were deceived, they would call and text the second or third group of people to tell them, and then the subsequent purchases would be inevitable. No, so series tours also cost extra.

I watch the tour guides coming in and out of the office to file accounts every day, and I feel that the money in their hands is dirty. Although he didn't steal or rob, he deceived many kind-hearted people. Some tour guides even refuse to open the car door for tourists in the sun, saying that everyone must buy something before they open it. Some tour guides cry and make trouble in front of kind-hearted old people, and make them buy something that is ten times more expensive than outside. , Some tour guides serve tea and water to customers who are good shoppers, and ignore the guests who are not shopping. The tour guides even compete with each other to see who can criticize and humiliate non-shopping guests in the car. They like to get used to it. Talk about east to west, cheat from south to north. Travel agencies are even more like chameleons. They smile all the time when tour guides who are good at shopping come to pay the bills, but they sneer at the tour guides who are bad at shopping. They say that tourists are gods, but in their hearts they want to empty the wallets of their customers.

After all, I don’t belong to that gray and high-paying industry. I chose to leave.

Although there are ways to make money in every industry that are unknown to outsiders, I can't stand the deception that my conscience always condemns. I am now doing business in a shopping mall in Kunming. Although I am tired, I feel very peaceful. It’s just that the income is really low. I don’t know if I will go back to being a tour guide, because this society is always so helpless. I originally heard that the country promulgated a new "Tourism Law" in May, and I was full of expectations to see the arrival of regular tourism, but there was always a loud thunder and a small rain. Kunming tourism is still selling tourists as commodities. Kunming tour guides are still fooling guests to buy things on the right side and counting money on the left side. Travel agencies are still gambling and the consumption of tour groups is not good. He would call the guests "shit" and have a carnival at night while the satellite was being released.

I hope that people who read this article can be prepared and learn from it when traveling to Yunnan again. I also hope that through this article, those kind-hearted tourists who have been deceived by me can forgive me and let me No more inner condemnation.

I also hope that China’s tourism policy can be promulgated and implemented in Kunming, and implemented so that every guest visiting Yunnan can enjoy the leisure and leisure they deserve. I think this is the perfect explanation of tourism and its original intention.