Tourist shopping

When traveling abroad, it is a common psychology of tourists to buy products and souvenirs with local characteristics as souvenirs or gifts to relatives and friends. How to buy affordable and meaningful items on the trip is also a science.

Tourist souvenirs are tourist commodities with local characteristics and commemorative significance. Its functions and characteristics are manifested in artistic value, collection value, practical value and gift value. Its artistic value is the most basic and important feature, which makes the goods ornamental and collectible. Good tourist souvenirs should be souvenirs with the theme of cultural relics, natural scenery or holiday gatherings in tourist attractions, reflecting local traditional crafts and styles.

Tourist handicrafts are all artistic handicrafts used for tourist shopping. It is an integral part of China's traditional cultural and artistic treasures. Tourist handicrafts include special handicrafts, folk handicrafts, antique handicrafts and modern handicrafts. Such as crystal jade, cloisonne ware, high-grade lacquerware, pottery, porcelain and so on.

Tourist food is the food that tourists buy for their own enjoyment on the trip, as well as various special foods that are given as gifts to relatives and friends. As a special gift, tourist food usually has the characteristics of rich flavor, long history, wonderful allusions or beautiful legends, and a certain popularity. In addition, the production, packaging and modeling of food should also meet the needs of tourism.

When shopping, you should have certain skills. First of all, you should choose products with local characteristics, which are not only memorable, but also genuine and have price advantages, and are worth buying by tourists. For example, coconuts in Hainan, national costumes in Yunnan and Hada in Tibet. It is a pleasure to keep it as a souvenir or give it to friends and relatives after purchase.

Secondly, small and portable products are preferred. Some special products are bulky, inconvenient to carry around and should not be purchased. When traveling, it is not easy to travel and travel. The less luggage, the better. Some items may be fragile, and if you are not careful, they will break halfway. There is no need to spend money on them.

Don't be greedy and cheap. In some scenic spots, you can often see fake and shoddy goods, such as pearls, necklaces and tea. Visitors can resist the temptation of low prices and hawking. Sometimes I feel that I have got a big bargain. After coming back, after some appraisal, there are not a few people who shout that they have been cheated.

Believe in your own judgment, most tour guides nowadays can abide by professional ethics. However, there are still a few tour guides who don't abide by professional ethics and extend the shopping time without authorization in order to collect kickbacks from tourist shops. Therefore, when shopping in different places, don't blindly trust others, don't be impulsive, trust your own judgment, take care of your wallet, learn to protect yourself and be a mature consumer.