{"id":35116,"date":"2004-10-12T05:43:20","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T21:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2004\/10\/12\/problems-with-organized-trips-to-europe\/"},"modified":"2004-10-12T05:43:20","modified_gmt":"2004-10-11T21:43:20","slug":"problems-with-organized-trips-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2004\/10\/12\/35116\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems With Organized Trips To Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/200410-europe.gif\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\">Nearly a thousand tourists have been on organized trips to Europe, and many are now returning citing a range of problems encountered during their vacation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The most frequent complaints concern the behavior of the organizers themselves. In many cases, the tour guides were accused of marking-up the price of elements on the program for their own benefit &#8211; such as the guide saying that a 95EUR ticket for the Moulin Rouge will cost 130EUR. Similarly, guides frequently demanded that visitors pay for all elements of the trip in advance, including asking for a tip covering all 14 days on the first day of their arrival in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>More generally, visitors professed to have experienced difficulties at duty-free shops, reporting that several shops at which customers can get their tax refunded directly after shopping did not know the exact tax rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a thousand tourists have been on organized trips to Europe, and many are now returning citing a range of problems encountered during their vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116","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=35116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}