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gency’s Selfguided TourStudent majoring in Tourism Management Shi Wenjing Tutor Wang JianxiAbstract: The selfguided tour is different from traditional travel with the group, and visitors are free to choose the way which is booking airline tickets and hotels by travel agents travel tourism projects. This personalized tour is favored with more and more people, and has bee the main push of many travel is to say there is great potential for its development. But it also brought related accident liability arising from ownership of and mitment to the controversy. In the case of “The selfguided” tour travel agencies to assume greater civil liability,which damages their interests and with adverse effects to their development. This article focuses on the background of the rise of “The selfguided tour”, the concept, features, and analysis the travel agency how to operate the product and riskaverse strategy,which provides the settlement of legal disputes and travel agencies from operating activities.Key words: Selfguided tour。 legal liability。 travel agency。 risk。 strategy 隨著現(xiàn)代經(jīng)濟(jì)的高速發(fā)展,旅游業(yè)也隨之快速發(fā)展。計(jì)算機(jī)網(wǎng)絡(luò)的普及使得信息傳遞愈加便捷,同時(shí)人們出游頻率的提高,旅游者的旅游經(jīng)驗(yàn)也日漸豐富,對(duì)旅游品質(zhì)的要求越來(lái)越高。相對(duì)于“走馬觀花”式的組團(tuán)出游,以“機(jī)票+酒店”套餐為組合的“自由行”因其自由度強(qiáng)、隨意性大而越來(lái)越受到國(guó)內(nèi)旅游者,特別是時(shí)尚人士的青睞。但“自由行”的發(fā)展也產(chǎn)生了一系列安全方面的負(fù)效應(yīng):環(huán)境不熟,物資、心理準(zhǔn)備不足,盲目自助, 缺乏自由行、自救經(jīng)驗(yàn)等, 導(dǎo)致自由行事故發(fā)生率的增長(zhǎng)。近年來(lái)關(guān)于旅游安全事故的報(bào)道屢見(jiàn)不鮮, 已對(duì)人們的出行造成了一定的心理影響。 一、“自由行”的興起背景2003年7月國(guó)家開(kāi)放了公民個(gè)人去香港旅游,一時(shí)間“香港自由行”成為最時(shí)髦的話題,這就是“自由行”在國(guó)內(nèi)發(fā)展的第一步。在這之前人們想出去旅行,只有參加旅行團(tuán)。而在這之后,越來(lái)越多的人開(kāi)始不參團(tuán),以個(gè)人身份去旅游。[4] 于是“自由行”出現(xiàn)了。近年來(lái),“自由行”這一旅游產(chǎn)品發(fā)展迅速,尤其是在出境游方面發(fā)展?jié)摿薮蟆?jù)調(diào)查顯示,2007年“五一”黃金周,旅行社的組團(tuán)游、商務(wù)游下滑趨勢(shì)明顯,自助游成了推動(dòng)黃金周旅游火爆的主力軍,其中“自由行”功不可沒(méi)。(一) “自由行”的涵義“自由行”是相對(duì)于傳統(tǒng)的跟團(tuán)旅游的出游方式,它是由旅行社根據(jù)旅游者的需要預(yù)定機(jī)票、酒店,游客自主安排旅游計(jì)劃、選擇旅游項(xiàng)目的一種新興的旅游方式。[5](二)興起背景(1)旅游經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富團(tuán)隊(duì)游的不足其實(shí)一直存在:行程捆綁式,不能滿(mǎn)足游客不同的個(gè)性需求;旅游購(gòu)物回扣令人不滿(mǎn);常規(guī)景點(diǎn)走馬觀花等。但在人們旅游經(jīng)驗(yàn)不多時(shí),因?yàn)橛泻軓?qiáng)新鮮感,所以對(duì)形式不很在意。而隨著旅游經(jīng)驗(yàn)的增多,人們注意到了常規(guī)團(tuán)隊(duì)游的不足,開(kāi)始對(duì)旅游形式提出更高要求,因此“自由行”應(yīng)運(yùn)而生?,F(xiàn)代大部分旅游者,對(duì)于可進(jìn)入性差的或是第一次去的地方,會(huì)選擇跟團(tuán)出游;反之則會(huì)選擇自由行。[1](2)生活水平提高分析人士認(rèn)為,一旦某個(gè)地區(qū)人均GDP達(dá)到2000美元,該地區(qū)的旅游方式就會(huì)開(kāi)始從觀光旅游向休閑度假漸漸轉(zhuǎn)型。隨著國(guó)民收入的不斷提高,人們對(duì)于高品質(zhì)生活的追求越來(lái)越高,對(duì)旅游舒適度及個(gè)性化、自由