Residents warned of timeshare frauds

Beijing citizens looking to travel abroad during the holiday season are being warned by local government to be cautious of timeshare vacation offers.

The advice was provided by an official from the Chaoyang district administration of industry and commerce yesterday.

"Consumers might be cheated by lucrative promotions like 'traveling around the world' or 'buying timeshare services as an investment'", Liu Dazhong, head of the consumer rights protection department of the administration, told METRO.