This came after a guide was thrown out of a vehicle and died in a crash in Shanghai last Friday.
The authority’s executive director, Annie Fonda, said authorities there were still investigating, and the TIA would keep in contact with them to see what happened.
But she said agencies should study whether tour guides should be wearing their seat belts at all times.
“After this incident, I think the trade can share their views about whether it’s really necessary for tour guides to stand on a [moving] coach and speak to tour members,” Fonda said on Commercial Radio.
“Safety belts are important. Say, on airplanes, flight attendants can put on their seat belts while seated as they face passengers. These are things we can study.”
She added the guide was a freelancer and his company, Miramar Travel, had bought work insurance for his trip.
For his part, unionist Lam Chi-ting agreed the sector could study fitting standing-room seat belts for tour guides.
But the director of the Tourism Industry Employees’ General Union said on RTHK that it’s unavoidable that guides have to move around the vehicle, such as collecting travel documents.
