Travel Tips for Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day Holidays 2025

Warm Travel Reminders for the 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day Holiday

As the 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday draws near, the Tianjin Municipal Cultural Market Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Corps releases warm reminders to help residents and tourists enjoy a safe and pleasant holiday. All citizens are urged to abide by the Code of Civilized Tourism, pay close attention to traffic safety during trips, fully protect personal legitimate rights and interests, and travel in a civilized, safe and joyful manner.

Plan your itinerary rationally

Before traveling, keep track of weather, traffic and natural disaster alerts for destinations, and design reasonable travel routes and schedules. Avoid peak holiday crowds, travel off-peak, and steer clear of congested roads and rush hours. For self-driving trips, inspect vehicle conditions, monitor weather changes and strictly abide by traffic laws.

Strengthen safety protection

Select high-risk tourism activities prudently based on personal physical conditions and do not blindly seek thrills. Fasten seat belts for the entire ride when driving privately or taking tourist coaches. Wear life jackets as required aboard sightseeing cruise ships. Refrain from visiting undeveloped, unopened zones lacking safety guarantees. During outdoor activities, pay attention to fire safety: no smoking, picnicking or open-flame use amid dense vegetation, leaf piles or areas marked with fire prevention warnings. Avoid any acts that may endanger your own safety or that of others.

Choose tourism products rationally

For package tours, purchase products from qualified, reputable formal travel agencies or online travel service providers, sign standardized tourism contracts, voluntarily buy tourism accident insurance, and truthfully disclose your physical health conditions. Confirm full travel itineraries before signing agreements, including destinations, duration and transportation modes. Read all itinerary details carefully to prevent misunderstandings or disputes. Communicate and negotiate with service providers freely if you have any questions or requests regarding arrangements.

Advocate civilized tourism

Travel is an activity to discover, appreciate and create beauty. Your words and deeds on trips reflect not only personal civility but also the city’s cultural image. All tourists shall protect the ecological environment and cultural relics during travels: refrain from spitting, littering, trampling lawns and flowers, carving or breaking tree branches, random graffiti, and loud noises. Queue in good order to build a civilized and harmonious tourist environment.

Guard against consumption traps

Be wary of tourism products priced far below market norms and steer clear of traps of unreasonably low-priced tours featuring forced shopping. Resist false promotions such as unreasonably low-priced tours and health supplement tours. Do not trust tourism products promoted by individuals posing as travel agents or tour guides via short videos or WeChat Moments. Avoid making payments through WeChat transfers, advance deposits or other private channels to prevent fraud.

Respond properly to emergencies

In case of unexpected incidents or dangers during travel, stay calm, take self-rescue and mutual aid measures, evacuate hazardous areas promptly and call the police for assistance when necessary. If disputes arise or trips are delayed due to flight rescheduling, cancellations or emergencies, resolve difficulties through rational negotiation. In the event of traffic accidents, natural disasters, personal injury or other crises, follow the tour guide’s instructions, seek help from relevant government departments in a timely manner. Tourists overseas shall promptly contact Chinese embassies and consulates local to their location.

Prevent telecom fraud

When booking air tickets or tourism products online, only log on to official websites to avoid personal information leakage and fraud risks. Verify all incoming calls and text messages thoroughly instead of believing them blindly. Safeguard personal data and ignore false advertising spread on websites, WeChat groups and other online platforms.

Refuse illegal gambling activities

Stay highly alert to lawbreakers who organize outbound gambling trips under the guise of tourism. Citizens are reminded to voluntarily reject overseas gambling offers to avoid falling into gambling scams and unnecessary financial losses.

Watch out for illegal fund-raising traps

Some unregulated tourism institutions lure the public into investment under the pretext of tourism projects, by means of free tours, stored-value investments and consumption rebates. Such acts constitute illegal fund-raising, fraud and other criminal offenses that seriously infringe consumers’ legitimate rights and interests. Citizens shall stay vigilant during tourism consumption, choose travel programs soberly and cautiously, and not be misled by so-called innovative tourism services to avoid illegal fund-raising traps.

Precautions for cruise travel

When taking a cruise, familiarize yourself with onboard emergency exits and safety equipment for rapid evacuation in emergencies. Keep your cabin door locked to prevent theft of valuables. Maritime weather is changeable, so pack appropriate clothing according to onboard weather forecasts and climate guidelines, and prepare motion sickness medicine in advance.

Safeguard legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law

In case of tourism service quality problems or disputes, communicate promptly with tour guides, tour leaders or outbound travel agencies, or file complaints with local public security, market supervision, culture and tourism authorities. Avoid extreme behaviors that may cause additional losses. Dial the 12345 Government Service Convenience Hotline to report issues and safeguard your lawful rights rationally and legally.