Tour guides are high-income people, and tour guides with a monthly income of over 10,000 yuan abound. According to Mr. Yuan, a part-time tour guide of Guangzhi Tour, there are two kinds of tour guides. One is a full-time tour guide who signs a labor contract with a travel agency, and the travel agency issues a basic salary, but the basic salary is just enough to deduct &”;five insurances and one gold&”;; The other is a part-time tour guide, with only one paper agreement with the travel agency, no basic salary and no &”;five insurances and one gold&”;. At present, part-time tour guides are the main force of travel agencies. Taking Nanhu International Travel Servic:6.
Before the implementation of the new law, tour guides&; income mainly depended on kickbacks and tour fees collected by travel agencies around 100 yuan every day. After the implementation of the new law, the tour guide&;s income is still reduced to one-third to one-fourth of the previous level, although the travel agency will increase the tour fee to three levels, such as 250 yuan/Day, 300 yuan/Day and 350 yuan/Day.
Even for full-time tour guides, their income has dropped sharply. Mr Ruan is a full-time tour guide of a travel agency in Guangzhou. According to him, b《旅游法》, he took a provincial group and earned at least thousands of dollars a day. But now there is only a fixed 250 yuan tour fee every day, which is a quarter of the past.