Regulations Governing Travel Agencies Article 48

A consolidated travel agency or Class-A travel agency operating the business of sending tour groups overseas shall, prior to a tour group’s departure, either provide each participating tourist with written information concerning travel safety and explanation of other circumstances as necessary, or organize a pre-departure orientation meeting. When a tour group is formed, the agency shall assign a tour manager to accompany and serve it throughout the tour.A consolidated travel agency or Class-A travel agency operating the business of sending tour groups overseas as referred to in the preceding paragraph shall assign foreign-language tour managers to lead such groups, and shall not assign or hire Chinese-language tour managers to lead such groups.A consolidated travel agency or Class-A travel agency shall strengthen the supervision and management of the tour managers it assigns or hires, and shall not allow them to engage in tour managing business for a non-travel-service operator. When a full- time tour manager for whom the aforesaid travel agency has obtained a tour manager license leaves the said travel agency’s employment, the travel agency shall within fifteen days thereof return the tour manager license to the Tourism Administration or its appointed organization; if it fails to do so, the Tourism Administration shall publicly announce the revocation of the license.