{"id":31985,"date":"2007-04-02T07:42:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T23:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2007\/04\/02\/3371-zhejiang-travel-agency-breaks-zero-basic-salary-system\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T23:42:50","slug":"zhejiang-travel-agency-breaks-zero-basic-salary-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2007\/04\/02\/31985\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhejiang Travel Agency Breaks \"Zero Basic Salary\" System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}