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Two travel agencies in Yunnan Province were fined and ordered to shut for a month after a tour guide was found to be threatening tourists reluctant to pay for unscheduled activities in the popular Shangri-La tourist area.儲存An undercover reporter with China Central Television was thrown off a bus by the guide in August after he refused to pay 100 yuan (US$16) to visit Tibetan families, an activity not included in the tour program.The guide, Zhang Tao, was caught on camera pulling the reporter off the bus heading for Hutiaoxia, a scenic area about 100 kilometers from ancient Lijiang Town, and tearing up his tour contract.Zhang threatened the reporter with violence when he said he would complain to the travel agency, and left him in a desolate and sparsely populated area midway between Lijiang and central Shangri-La, two hours from either place by bus, CCTV reported yesterday.Forced at knifepointLocal villagers said putting tourists off buses was common in the area. Some tourists were even forced off their bus at knifepoint some years ago, they told CCTV.Zhang works for the Kawa Gebo Travel Agency based in Yunnan’s Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and was hired by Diqing Shangri-La CYTS Co to pick up 39 tourists in Lijiang on August 14 for a two-day Shangri-La tour.The Diqing Tourism Bureau fined both agencies 100,000 yuan and ordered them to stop work for a month to rectify irregularities.Diqing Shangri-La CYTS Co was also ordered to refund and compensate the tourists.Zhang has had his tour guide certificate revoked.A law enforself storageement official with the Diqing tourism law enforcement team was also removed from his post yesterday. The official had refused to do anything about Zhang’s behavior after the reporter and several tourists complained to the Diqing Tourism Bureau.The official said the tourists should bear responsibility for not paying extra charges and threatened to detain a tourist who was taking a video of him. He asked the tourist to delete the recording.‘Go back home’“Go back home, and never come to Shangri-La, we don’t welcome such tourists like you,” he shouted at them.CCTV also reported that another tour guide in Shangri-La had forced tourists to pay 320 yuan to visit Tibetan families and another 100 yuan for chicken and yak near Hutiaoxia.He told the tourists that guides in Shangri-La had no salary.“Tourist guides in Shangri-La would put knives on your necks (if you don’t participate in the program) and you can see whether I would do that,” he said while threatening tourists to get them to pay up.Many tourists visiting the area had similar experiences, CCTV said.The guide had his license revoked and tourism authorities in Diqing yesterday promised they would step up efforts to stamp out irregularities in the prefecture.China’s first tourism law, which took effect on October 1, aims to clean up the industry by forcing out illegal operators, ending price irregularities and arbitrary route changes and ensuring tourists aren’t forced to pay for more than they have signed up for. 迷利倉