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With public opinion mobilizing and the facts of the case becoming clear, the police and courts worked hand in hand with remarkable efficiency. Several black guides and thugs who had beaten people received the punishment they deserved, with severe and heavy penalties.
Jiangcheng City initiated a new round of clean-up efforts in the tourism industry. Many travel agencies were affected to varying degrees, and quite a few similar black guides and tourist traps were rooted out, leading to a more orderly market.
The hardest hit was, of course, Yang Tao's Sunshine Travel Agency.
Despite the agency's long-standing excellent reputation locally, its storied history, and even its origin as a famous state-owned travel agency, none of this prestige mattered in the face of five lost lives.
Under the city's strict crackdown on tourism chaos, Sunshine Travel Agency, as the event's originating unit, had its business license revoked.
