Heard many negative news about travelling in China before, but I thought as long as we travel with a local, it should all right. But when I saw this article on <My Paper> earlier this week, seem like my believe is wrong! Fear of heading to China for holiday grew even bigger.
[actual article] http://mypaper.sg/chinese-news/xiang-ge-li-la-dao-you-luan-xiang-lu-ke-bu-xiao-fei-huang-ye-gan-xia-che-20131007
[actual article] http://mypaper.sg/chinese-news/xiang-ge-li-la-dao-you-luan-xiang-lu-ke-bu-xiao-fei-huang-ye-gan-xia-che-20131007
[Article is in Chinese only. Although I'm bilingual , but translating is totally different thing, so used google translate and edit a bit here and there myself. ]
(In chinese - cut and paste from the website)
香格里拉导游乱象： 旅客不消费 荒野赶下车
北京 Beijing
中国旅游发实施未满一周，著名的旅游胜地云南香格里拉就被媒体揭发了一系列的旅游乱象，包括：旅行社强制游客参加自费项目“藏民家访”， 导游用“刀架脖子” 威胁游客付钱，不肯付钱的游客半路赶下车等，引起广泛关注。
中国央视媒体记者日前假扮游客，报团到香格里拉旅游。上了旅游巴士后，导游向游客收取320元人民币（65新元），作为参加“藏民家访”自费旅游项目的费用。对于一些不配合的游客，导游先是威胁说“香格里拉导游是非常恐怖的”，接着更恐吓说“你看我今天会不会把刀子放到你脖子上”。
为了进一步调查，记者再次参加香格里拉旅行团，旅行社承诺不会强制消费，但上了旅游巴士后，导游还是逼大家付"藏民家访"的费用。记者拒绝参加，结果被导游辱骂“没有钱就不要出来”，还被粗暴地赶下车，下车地点在丽江与香格里拉中间，可说是荒郊野外。据附近村民说，这里每天都有游客被导游赶下车。
记者在路上看到其他被赶下车的游客，便和他们到丽江旅游局投诉，却被告知他们的导游是香格里拉的，该旅游局不受理，大家只好到香格里拉旅游局迪庆州去。到了那里，记者看到一名游客因为拍摄录音而被执法人员狂骂，威胁要拘留她，执法人员还要对方“滚蛋，永远别来香格里拉”。
“香格里拉旅游乱象”报道出街后，引起云南省领导重视。云南省旅游执法总队已组建工作队赴香格里拉调查处理，并在国庆后对屡禁不止的旅游乱象进行专项整治。
(As mentioned aboved, translate by google translate and edit by myself. Hope you could understand!)
SHANGRI-LA TOUR CHAOS : Don't participate, Out you go
China Tourism law had been set for less than a week, one of China's famous tourist destination, Yunnan Shangri-La, had been exposed by media of a series of travel chaos, including : Forcing tourist to participate in attraction "visiting Tibetan home" on their own expense, tour guide putting knife to tourist neck and forcing them to pay, chasing tourist off if refused to pay, etc., caused widespread of concern.
Chinese CCTV media reporters posed as tourists and joined the Shangri-La tour. Once boarded up the bus, tour guide start asking for 320 yuan (65 SGD) as a participant of "visiting Tibetan home" attraction cost. For some who reject, tour guide threatened them that the "shangri-La tour guide are very scary" and even tried to intimidate them by saying "You see if I will put a knife to your neck"
To investigate further, reporter once again participated in a Shangri-La tour, agents promised that they will not force them to participant but once they board the tour bus, the tour guide again force everyone to pay for "visiting Tibetan home" attraction cost. When reporter refused to participate, tour guide insulted them by saying "No money then don't come out" and violently chased them off the bus in middle of nowhere (middle of Lijiang and Shangri-La). According to the local villagers, there are tourist got chase off the bus everyday
Along with other tourists that has been chased off the bus, they went to Lijiang Tourism board to lodge complaints. Only to be told that their tour guide is under Shangri-la, that wass not under their control, they had to go to Diqing Shangri Tourism board. When they were there, reporter saw that a tourist was getting scolding for recording video by the law enforcement officers. They threatered to detain her and even told her to "get lost and don't ever come to Shangri-La "
After this "Shangri-La Travel chaos" reported out, it got Yuannan leadership attention. Yunnan Tourism Law enforcement team has set up an investigation team to head to Shangri-La to investigate more, and to put a stop to all these travel chaos after the China national day holiday
为了进一步调查，记者再次参加香格里拉旅行团，旅行社承诺不会强制消费，但上了旅游巴士后，导游还是逼大家付"藏民家访"的费用。记者拒绝参加，结果被导游辱骂“没有钱就不要出来”，还被粗暴地赶下车，下车地点在丽江与香格里拉中间，可说是荒郊野外。据附近村民说，这里每天都有游客被导游赶下车。
记者在路上看到其他被赶下车的游客，便和他们到丽江旅游局投诉，却被告知他们的导游是香格里拉的，该旅游局不受理，大家只好到香格里拉旅游局迪庆州去。到了那里，记者看到一名游客因为拍摄录音而被执法人员狂骂，威胁要拘留她，执法人员还要对方“滚蛋，永远别来香格里拉”。
“香格里拉旅游乱象”报道出街后，引起云南省领导重视。云南省旅游执法总队已组建工作队赴香格里拉调查处理，并在国庆后对屡禁不止的旅游乱象进行专项整治。
(As mentioned aboved, translate by google translate and edit by myself. Hope you could understand!)
SHANGRI-LA TOUR CHAOS : Don't participate, Out you go
China Tourism law had been set for less than a week, one of China's famous tourist destination, Yunnan Shangri-La, had been exposed by media of a series of travel chaos, including : Forcing tourist to participate in attraction "visiting Tibetan home" on their own expense, tour guide putting knife to tourist neck and forcing them to pay, chasing tourist off if refused to pay, etc., caused widespread of concern.
Chinese CCTV media reporters posed as tourists and joined the Shangri-La tour. Once boarded up the bus, tour guide start asking for 320 yuan (65 SGD) as a participant of "visiting Tibetan home" attraction cost. For some who reject, tour guide threatened them that the "shangri-La tour guide are very scary" and even tried to intimidate them by saying "You see if I will put a knife to your neck"
To investigate further, reporter once again participated in a Shangri-La tour, agents promised that they will not force them to participant but once they board the tour bus, the tour guide again force everyone to pay for "visiting Tibetan home" attraction cost. When reporter refused to participate, tour guide insulted them by saying "No money then don't come out" and violently chased them off the bus in middle of nowhere (middle of Lijiang and Shangri-La). According to the local villagers, there are tourist got chase off the bus everyday
Along with other tourists that has been chased off the bus, they went to Lijiang Tourism board to lodge complaints. Only to be told that their tour guide is under Shangri-la, that wass not under their control, they had to go to Diqing Shangri Tourism board. When they were there, reporter saw that a tourist was getting scolding for recording video by the law enforcement officers. They threatered to detain her and even told her to "get lost and don't ever come to Shangri-La "
After this "Shangri-La Travel chaos" reported out, it got Yuannan leadership attention. Yunnan Tourism Law enforcement team has set up an investigation team to head to Shangri-La to investigate more, and to put a stop to all these travel chaos after the China national day holiday
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