Is it better to travel to Jiuzhaigou with a group or by yourself? Why?

Jiuzhaigou is a herringbone scenic spot. If you go with a group, you can only go one way. If you want to enjoy all the fun, I suggest you don't let me skip the regular trip. Although freer, it is also more troublesome. I recommend you to take the following (free) Jiuzhai dog. In this case, you can basically enjoy all the fun.

I want to go to Jiuzhaigou. Should I sign up for a tour group? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the group?

Five advantages and six disadvantages of group tour, which is better, group tour or self-help tour? In fact, this question is difficult to answer, and it can be said that each has its own merits. If it is better to travel with a group, it will make tourists who like to travel by themselves sneer. I can't explain why so many tourists take part in group tours. In fact, this question can be answered from two aspects: first, please note that the group tour here refers to individual tour, not package tour, because there is a great difference between the two in terms of tourism service and quality. First, the benefits of participating in group tours. 1. Cheap: Actually, there is no need to explain this point, because the large-scale travel of travel agencies can gain advantages that tourists can also get. You can't get them from hotels, motorcades, restaurants or even tickets. Perhaps this is why a large number of tourists choose to travel. In addition, because the travel agency industry is already a highly competitive industry, most of them are in a state of low profit. At the same time, participating in group tours also saves tourists a lot of zero expenses, such as transportation expenses between stations, docks, airports, hotels and scenic spots, telephone consultation, reservation, car meals and so on. 2. Convenience: Most tourists don't. I have no experience of self-help travel. Self-help travel to strange places means very complicated preparation and unpredictability for them, which will increase their fear of travel, especially for the elderly, children and tourists who lack travel experience. However, it is different from group tour. All these jobs are handed over to travel agencies, and tourists only need to be in a good mood. At the same time, in the process of traveling, some details are also completed by travel agencies, tour guides and drivers, and tourists do not need to implement them one by one, which greatly facilitates tourists. 3. Time-saving: Self-help tour needs a lot of time to prepare for the preliminary work, such as seeing scenic spots, transportation, accommodation, booking tickets, making appointments, consulting, etc. Traveling with a group doesn't require so much preliminary work. In the process of traveling, the travel agency arranges the itinerary in a unified way, and generally has a clear tour time. Therefore, a lot of time is saved in the process of traveling, and tourists only need to concentrate on experiencing local folk customs and tourist attractions. 4. Safety: Self-help tour, due to too many uncertain factors, is often prone to safety problems, and will also accumulate many contradictions with various service units, and even quarrel and fight. This will bury the hidden danger of insecurity. (For example, on May 1 this year, Chongqing tourists were killed in Ya. Compared with tourists, it is an indisputable fact that group tours can not completely avoid security problems, but can effectively reduce security risks. To take a step back, if there is a safety problem, you can also get compensation through travel accident insurance and travel agency liability insurance. At the same time, security issues are relatively easy to properly handle, self-help travel is relatively difficult, and sometimes even the responsible person is found. For example, in the process of joining a tour group, tourists who are sick or injured can often get better care and timely treatment from travel agencies or tour guides, while self-help tours are sometimes hard to say, and it often takes good luck to meet good people. 5. Tour guides: Tour guides can be said to play a soul role in some tourist routes. Traveling without a guide is unthinkable. Although many people are not satisfied with tour guides, we must believe that the vast majority of tour guides are recognized by tourists. Not only did tour guides bring tourists the knowledge, history and culture of scenic spots in a short period of time, but many tour guides also brought joy, care, warmth and good luck to tourists, and even tourists leaned over for tour guides, which self-help tours could not bring to tourists. Many thank-you letters received by tourists on the dream trip are praising the tour guide. Two. Disadvantages of taking part in group tours. Passivity: Because participating in group tours needs to follow the unified route formulated by travel agencies, tourists must follow the unified itinerary. Tourists' grasp of time and scenic spots is passive, so it is difficult for them to exert their subjectivity.

Solution: In addition to self-help tour, tourists can try to choose the route that best suits their needs, discuss with travel agencies whether to choose some scenic spots or adopt more flexible methods in time, or choose semi-self-help tour routes, but this is not always applicable. For example, if a tourist wants to travel to Jiuzhaigou and get the benefits of traveling with a group, but he doesn't want to be too passive, and he wants to fully realize his desire to visit Jiuzhaigou scenic spots and increase his time in the ditch, then he can spend an extra day or even two on his own tour in Jiuzhaigou. At this time, I suggest you choose Jiuzhaigou five-day tour, two-day tour in the ditch and self-help tour in the ditch. For example, some tourists want to continue to visit other scenic spots, such as Songpan, Siguniang Mountain or Dujiangyan, instead of going back to Chengdu with a group. At this time, you can ask yourself to quit the group. There are many such examples. Visitors can use this method as long as they carefully analyze the itinerary. 2. unequal treatment: it can be divided into two aspects: a. price inequality: after getting on the bus, tourists often find that their prices are different from others, some are high and some are low, which most tourists can't accept and feel cheated. In addition to the normal price difference caused by different levels of participation, there is indeed a price difference, which should be said to be a common problem. There are several main reasons: first, the tourists in the same car come from different travel agencies, and there is no unified price registration when the travel agencies do not receive tourists; The second is the price difference caused by the different registration time of tourists. Generally speaking, the earlier the registration, the lower the price, but there are exceptions. Because the overall price of travel agencies is affected by many factors, some factors are difficult to grasp, and it is also possible that tourists who signed up later enjoy preferential prices because of temporary price adjustment. Third, the more tourists who sign up together at the time of registration, the more discounts they may get. Fourth, it is related to the bargaining power of some tourists. Another reason is that in order to reduce losses, travel agencies that send tour groups have to cut prices or buy tourists from other travel agencies at low prices. For some tourists, the price difference does not exist, because the price difference of a single tourist may not be completely eliminated. The only way is to minimize the price difference. Maybe your price is higher than others this time and lower next time. Solution: try to bargain, sign up as soon as possible, and gather as many delegations as possible. For example, in the dream trip, there is a promise in all the trips: this website solemnly promises that in order to relieve the worries of the applicants, if the price of our company drops, the first applicant will enjoy the price reduction, and if the price rises, the price of the first applicant will not rise again. B. Unequal treatment: Due to the large number of individual tourists, most of them don't know each other, and each tourist has different background, experience, personality, hobbies and temperament, so they are often treated unequally or think that they are treated unequally, such as the front and back seats, the attitude of tour guides, the way of speaking and so on. Solution: First of all, we must admit that a tour guide will inevitably have shortcomings when facing many tourists, and be considerate and calm. I believe that for most tour guides, there is a minimum professional ethics, and they will treat tourists equally. At the same time, if you have any questions, you should communicate with the tour guide and understand each other. 3. Deception: Many tourists are always worried that they will be cheated if they join the group. What if they are cheated? There is no denying that tourists are cheated by joining tour groups. However, with the strengthening of the management of the tourism industry, there are fewer and fewer cases of being cheated in tour groups (here refers to large-scale). Although illegal travel agencies or black clubs cannot be completely eliminated, they are few and far between. If you are cheated just for small things, such as quality problems and price problems. It can't be described as being cheated. This should be another problem.

Solution: The simplest and most effective way is to check the business license and travel permit and ask the local tourism bureau about the legality of the travel agency. If you join a tour group, you must sign a travel contract with the official seal of the company made by the Tourism Bureau and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and ask for legal tickets for regular travel agencies. If in doubt, you can complain to the local tourism bureau and it will be handled properly. 4. Group Tour: Joining individual tour groups will inevitably lead to group tour problems between travel agencies, which makes many tourists feel uncomfortable. Reason: simplicity, unity is strength. It is difficult for a travel agency to undertake the heavy responsibility of organizing tourism alone, especially in a tourist province like Sichuan and Yunnan, where there are so many and rich tourist routes. Coupled with the recognized status quo of China travel agencies: scattered, weak and small, it is impossible for a travel agency to organize tourism completely independently. However, it is impossible for tourists to find a travel agency that can send tours individually one by one, and they need to transfer tours between travel agencies. In fact, it is also good for tourists in turn. It is precisely because of the alliance between travel agencies that the cost of tourism has been effectively controlled. Otherwise, it can be imagined that each travel agency sends a group tour independently, and the result is definitely that the tour fee is not enough, either temporarily canceling or raising the tour fee, which leads to an increase in tourism prices. Solution: ask the travel agency one by one whether to send another tour; The travel agency is required to indicate the contents of the tour transfer, and the travel responsibility shall be borne by the travel agency that signed the contract. 5. Tour guide: If you meet a good tour guide during the tour, the tour process will be icing on the cake, which is a kind of enjoyment; On the contrary, it will reduce the fun of traveling. And many complaints are caused by tour guides. Solution: Choose a good travel agency, record the advantages and disadvantages of the tour guide, and feed back to the travel agency or relevant departments, so that the tour guide can get due rewards and punishments, thus forming a good atmosphere in the tour guide. 6. Shopping: Actually, shopping itself is not a bad thing, but the shopping we are talking about here is not shopping in the general sense, but shopping during the trip. Among the six elements of tourism, shopping is one of them, which means that tourism shopping itself is a very normal thing and understandable. However, in recent years, tourism shopping has become the biggest worry for tourists and tour operators. There is a contradiction, which is the contradiction between price and shopping. On the one hand, in order to gain an advantage in the competition, travel agencies try their best to reduce costs to attract tourists. However, when the price can't be lower or lower, it will be compensated by other means, such as shopping, in order to get a part of the commission through shopping to make up for the profit or even the cost. But when the commission is disproportionate, it is not shopping in the general sense. On the other hand, many tourists try their best to reduce the travel price, but if the price is too low, it will inevitably increase shopping during the trip. Thereby occupying driving time. For tourists, this is also a contradiction. On the one hand, travel expenses are reduced, on the other hand, shopping in the travel itinerary affects time. No wonder some tourists say it's time to ask for money. For travel agencies, this is also a contradiction. On the one hand, they want to improve the quality of tourism and let tourists have fun; On the other hand, they are facing the loss of customers and don't know how to choose. Solution: spend more money to choose a pure sightseeing group or a pure play group; If you join an ordinary group, you will only see dissatisfied products. Even if you are satisfied with the product, you should compare the prices before buying. In addition, more newly developed lines can be selected. Due to the short development time, tourism commodities have not kept up, and these routes do not have the function of tourism shopping, such as Daocheng Yading (basically no shopping), Siguniang Mountain (few shopping spots), Aba, Ganzi deep tourism, Langzhong ancient city tourism (no shopping) and so on. For example, Dream Tour took the lead in launching Jiuzhaigou Huanglong Pure Tour Group. There are few tourists because of the big price difference with ordinary tour groups.

Through the above analysis, you may have a general understanding of traveling with a group or by yourself. In fact, no matter which one you choose is correct, it will not be unnecessary because of others. As long as it suits you, it is the best choice. One can only travel once, not once. Life, and every experience can bring you good memories and let you know more about the world we live in. That's all that matters.