How PreeChina Charges for Group Tours in China

PreeChina does not start with a package. It starts with the group: what the travellers want to experience, how fast they want to go, and what they want to spend. The itinerary and the supply chain are built around those interests, not around products with fixed partners.

• The group pays PreeChina a service fee for its work, on its own line.
• The group pays the suppliers their own prices, directly or through PreeChina at the same price, with no handling fee.
• PreeChina takes no commission from hotels, restaurants, venues or transport, and the trade rates it holds go to the group.
• Vehicle hire is coordinated through partner drivers without adding a markup to the rental cost.

The fee is USD 100 per person for trips of up to 10 days and USD 150 for 11 to 20 days, and quoted for each group in the priced itinerary. Any savings depend on the itinerary, supplier availability, group size and confirmed rates, and are not guaranteed. It covers:

• Designing the programme together with the organiser.
• Booking and coordinating hotels, site visits, tickets and transport inside China.
• Arranging meals for the group.
• Airport pickup and drop-off.
• An English-speaking guide with the group from arrival to departure.
• Chinese-language local coordination.

It does not cover:

• The hotels, the meals, the transport inside China and the attraction tickets: these are supplier costs, paid at the suppliers' prices.
• International flights.
• Travel insurance.
• Personal spending and shopping.
• Upgrades to a higher specification than the one agreed, such as a better hotel, a different class of rail seat or an extra banquet.

1. The brief. The group size, the dates, the places or interests, and the hotel level.
2. A draft route. PreeChina replies with a draft route, the per-person ground service fee and an estimate of the hotel, meal and transport costs.
3. The priced itinerary. Each cost is its own line, and the fee is quoted per person. Nothing is booked until the group agrees it.
4. The deposit. 30% of the ground service fee holds the dates. Items that must be booked in advance are paid in advance, for the amount actually booked.
5. The balance. The remaining 70% of the fee is paid within two days after arrival in China.

The deposit, balance, currencies and refunds are on the booking and payment page.

Every line names who is paid and on what basis. The amounts are set for each group in its own itinerary.

PreeChina holds trade rates with long-standing partners that individual travellers and one-off groups do not receive. The group books at those rates directly, or through PreeChina at the same price, and the savings stay in the group's budget. The cost comparison sets the savings beside the fee, with a worked example for a group of 36 over seven days.

• A service fee of USD 100 per person for trips of up to 10 days (USD 150 for 11 to 20 days), and nothing else from the trip.
• No commission from hotels, restaurants, venues or transport, and nothing added to their prices.
• Every supplier cost listed as its own line in the priced itinerary, before anything is booked.
• No handling fee for paying suppliers on the group's behalf.
• An English-speaking guide with the group from arrival to departure.

These terms are the same for student, business and other group tours.

Other group tours start at ten people. Groups of two to nine are quoted as a project: a project fee plus the actual costs, with no figure published. Send the details through the contact form.