Tour guides and street vendors often sell tours on tour buses when participating in tour groups, which will be banned at the earliest in early March next year.

The Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications announced today a draft amendment to the "Travel Industry Management Regulations", prohibiting travel agencies from selling items without the consent of tourists.

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[Reporter Chen Xinyu/Taipei Report] Tour guides and street vendors often sell tours on tour buses when participating in tour groups. It will be banned in early March next year at the earliest.

The Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications announced today a draft amendment to the "Travel Industry Management Regulations", prohibiting travel agencies from selling items without the consent of tourists.

In addition, the original plan was to revise and relax the business that can be operated by the tourism industry and open up the rights of non-tourism operators to operate related businesses. Due to the rebound of the travel industry, they believed that it would "open the back door for local creation", so it was not amended for the time being, and the draft was not included.

The Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications stated that to avoid affecting the quality of tourism and reducing consumption disputes, it announced the draft revision of some provisions of the "Travel Industry Management Regulations". follow-up legal procedures.

Announced today (29th), comments or inquiries can be made within 60 days of the notice period.

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According to the Tourism Bureau, when tourists join domestic and foreign tour groups, there are sometimes travel agency staff who accompany the tour group to sell goods on the tour bus without authorization, or vendors to sell goods on the bus, causing tourists to feel that they are being forced to sell. Therefore, the draft stipulates that the travel industry should Tourism documents disclose the behavior of selling goods to tourists or arrange for vendors in scenic spots to sell goods on vehicles, and the consent of tourists should be obtained, such as signing a consent form or specifying the agreement items in the tourism finalization contract.

In addition, during the period of collecting opinions from the industry, the Tourism Bureau has proposed to relax the list of travel agencies that can operate business from a positive list to a negative list, and open up "non-travel agencies" to enter into some travel agency businesses, including sea, land and air transportation business tickets, design Journeys, provision of tourism consulting services, etc.; greatly relaxed the business operations that operators can operate, including the sale of agricultural products, etc. Due to the rebound of travel industry operators, they believed that they would open the back door for local creation, and were finally deleted. They were not included in the draft.

According to the Tourism Bureau, the management rules of the travel industry have also added a business item that the travel industry can collect insurance premiums on behalf of the travel industry, which is convenient for tourists to collect travel safety insurance premiums through the travel industry, and allows tourists to purchase travel itineraries, accommodation, air tickets and other travel products. To ensure travel safety; in addition, the accidental death insured amount of the travel industry liability insurance has also been raised, and the accidental death is adjusted from at least 2 million yuan per person to 2.5 million yuan.

According to the Tourism Bureau, in order to simplify the website management and declaration procedures of the travel industry, and to increase the number of representatives and office addresses of foreign travel companies in my country, they should first apply to the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Communications for approval and obtain the number of identification cards for full-time delivery personnel Restrictions and regulations that have not been paid back at that time for cancellation, and those who do not intend to operate travel business need to return the travel industry license and get back the travel industry security deposit.