Tourists on an trip organised by a recently liquidated Australian travel company arrived in China yesterday to find no accommodation, no tour and no return flight.
AVG Travels, which is based in Melbourne, went into liquidation on Tuesday afternoon and the liquidator said ongoing operations had been suspended.
A Milton man, who had been due to fly to China earlier this week for an 11-day tour, but did not travel as it was cancelled by AVG Travels, said a group of about a dozen people had left Christchurch on Tuesday for Beijing.
The group, which was joined by several Australians in China, arrived to find the accommodation they hoped for was not available and nothing had been paid to the hotel by AVG Travels.
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