Following the Australian Tourism Commission's restructuring of guidelines for budget travel groups from overseas, Ctrip.com has had to eliminate many of its packaged tours to Australia.

In addition, Ctrip previously had launched a RMB9999 Australian packaged tour to attract more people to join the overseas travel group, but following a Xiamen consumer's post on the Internet last week criticizing the poor travel experience of the this budget trip, the company has had to cancel the trip and plans to instead provide more high-end trips.

Now most of the trips to Australia have increased by RMB1000. For example, the 9-day trip to Australia which used to cost RMB10800 is now priced RMB11800, while the 12-day trip to Australia and New Zealand is priced at RMB14800 compared with the previous RMB13800.