Zhejiang International Holiday Travel Service says it will break the industry's "zero basic salary" tradition for tour guides and pay the guide guides a basic salary based on their experience and qualification.

Currently in China's tourism industry, more than half of the tour guides work without a basic salary. Although some of them get RMB50-RMB150 allowance per day, many of them don't have a guaranteed income. A representative from Zhejiang Provincial Tourism Bureau says that about 50% of the tour guides in the province work without being paid a basic salary, which has made many of the excellent tour guides leave the industry and has caused a shortage of qualified guides in the industry.

Zhejiang international Holiday Travel service says it will adopt a minimum salary system for tour guides in order to prevent them from asking for illegal commissions. A representative from the company says that they will pay the tour guides a basic salary plus some allowance and in the future create a transparent tour guide salary system over the entire province.