RBC reports: tour operators lie and threaten to tourists in Sanya, Hainan Island, China
http://hainanwel.com/en/hainan-news/203 ... urism.htmlAt October 5, 2012 the biggest news agency of Russia-the RBC, posted on its website an article about the systematic abusing of Russian tourists on the island of Hainan, China, we provide on our website this article without changes:
"Russian tour operators try to make more money from tourists, already paid for your vacation. One such dishonest, but commonly used methods was pressure from the guides. Tourists are hearing lie, that if they go on a tour with another company, they will deprive a medical insUrance. Guides gather of tourists in stuffy rooms and arrange the meeting, refusing to release children and their parents, as they do not buy expensive tours. And now for the Russian tourists struck a new attack.
According to reports in the specialized travel forums, our travelers who are going to rest on the Chinese resort of Hainan, warn, that if they buy a ticket at the other (competing) companies, their visa will be canceled immediately. "... If a tourist gets tours in any other outsiders, the tour operator is obliged to cancellation of the tourist visa. Persons, whose visa has been revoked, must leave the country within one day. Tourists, who themselves have started service throw third parties will blacklist tourists. "- quoted warning on the IP Banco. In addition, in the tourists take away the passports.
Moreover, incidents happen even with tourists, which come to the resort of Hainan yourself. If the Russians were "confused", the guides allow themselves to be aggressive, hit tourists, threats sent to prison. Russians write, that met several times with the such "hospitality" of the Hainan Island. And not always the tourists can help the consulate and the local authorities get involved in "internal" affairs of Russian travelers are not want. Interestingly, the price of the excursions for Russian tourists are inflated by four to five times. "
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http://turist.rbc.ru/article/05/10/2012/261742The website administration of HainanWel.com repeatedly noticed complaints of tourists on many resources on the Internet about the organization of tourist destinations in the city of Sanya on Hainan Island, which we reported on our website, but in 2012, pressure from the tourist tour operators has incredible size, which is not there is more on one resort in the world.
We have repeatedly and regularly read articles of boasting representatives of the Department of Tourism of Sanya City and the Department of tourism of Hainan Province in the Chinese press about how successful and versatile developing an international tourism in Hainan Island, as well as the rapid increase in the number of foreign tourists to the island of Hainan, but confirmation this information from representatives of the Department of Tourism of Sanya City and the Department of tourism of Hainan Province we can not find anywhere else, quite the contrary, the Internet has a lot of negative reviews on vacation on the island of Hainan, and complaints on the tour operators.
However, representatives of the Department of Tourism of Sanya City and the Department of tourism of Hainan Province try to ignore these complaints and persistently continue to cooperate with these tour operators, that we saw at the EXPO "Leisure-2012" in Moscow in September 2012, when representatives of the Department of Tourism of Sanya City and the Department of tourism of Hainan Province left a Pavilion of Hainan Province at the exhibition for only those representatives of tour operators.
We do not understand the indifferent attitude of the Department of Tourism of Sanya City and the Department of tourism of Hainan Province to the development of international tourism in Hainan Island in 2012, because 2012 is the year of the Russian tourism in China, announced the joint decision of the President of Russia and the President of China, and we unknown reasons of ignoring the representatives of the Department of Tourism of Sanya City and the Department of tourism of Hainan Province of the joint decision of the President of Russia and the President of China.
For details on how to Hainan Pavilion was left uninhabited at the EXPO "Leisure-2012" in Moscow in September 2012 can be found here:
http://Hainanwel.com/en/Hainan-fairs-fe ... urism.html