What should I pay attention to when traveling with a group?

Traveling with a group is a group. The tour guide will help you arrange accommodation and play. When you arrive at the scenic spot, tourists will be slow and fast. The tour guide can't follow all the guests, only some of them. The general tour guide will tell you a meeting time and place. Just assemble according to time. If you want to listen to the guide, just follow the guide. So, how about traveling with a group? What should I pay attention to when traveling with a group? First, how about traveling with a group?

Advantage one: worry and effort

The biggest advantage of traveling with a group is that it saves worry and effort. Before the trip, the travel agency has arranged the route, accommodation, catering, etc. Don't worry about these things, just pick up your luggage and set off.

Advantage 2: The cost is controllable.

Before signing up for the tour, I negotiated the price with the group tour. There will be basically no additional fees after registration. Accommodation and transportation are arranged by travel agencies, and personal expenses are just souvenirs, so the expenses can be well controlled and will not exceed the budget.

Advantage 3: Security.

The travel agency's itinerary is very mature, and there will be no scenic spots with too high risks. At the same time, traffic is also a professional driver who drives for a long time, and the probability of traffic accidents is greatly reduced. At the same time, because travel agencies are particularly familiar with scenic spots and local topography, they also ensure travel safety to a great extent.

Disadvantages 1: travel is restricted.

Because the itinerary is fixed, you can only visit the scenic spots according to the arrangement of the tour guide. Each scenic spot has a time limit and cannot exceed the time. It seems that the whole journey is particularly tense and I can't enjoy it at all. As for freedom, you can only daydream.

Disadvantage 2: Arrange shopping spots

In order to increase income, travel agencies take tourists to one shopping spot after another in order to get kickbacks from shopping spots. Sometimes you spend more time shopping than visiting scenic spots.

Disadvantage 3: The food is not delicious.

Before signing up for the tour, I said that the food was much better, but when I actually traveled, I found that it was not the case at all. Not only do you need to eat with people you don't know, but the quality of the food is also terrible. Maybe you really got what you paid for. If you want to eat well with a group tour, you have to pay for it yourself.

Disadvantage 4: team contradiction

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. When there are many people, some disputes will inevitably occur in the group. It's time for some people not to get back in the car, so we need to wait together. The children in the car are disobedient, noisy and so on, which will kill everyone's fun of traveling. Originally, traveling was happy, but it brought unhappiness to yourself for no reason.

Second, the difference between self-help tour and group tour

1, different tourism modes

Traveling with a group: Traveling with a group is to sign up at a travel agency and tell you where you want to go. The travel society makes arrangements according to the requirements of tourists, and then the tour guide leads the tourists to the tourist destination for sightseeing, sightseeing and play on the specified date. Accommodation, food, transportation and tourist routes are all arranged by the travel agency in advance, and tourists only need to follow the tour guide according to the itinerary set by signing the contract.

Self-help tour: Self-help tour does not involve travel agencies or tour guides, and all issues such as itinerary, transportation, food and accommodation are arranged by passengers themselves.

2. The itinerary is different

Tour with a group: Tour with a group is planned and the itinerary has been determined. Due to various reasons such as accommodation, transportation, etc., it is usually necessary to quit the group except for free time. The play time of a tourist attraction is also fixed and the itinerary is relatively compact.

Self-help tour: the itinerary of self-help tour is completely arranged by yourself. You can go wherever you want and play as long as you want. The itinerary can be compact or loose, very free and more flexible.

3. Different travel expenses

Group tour: Group tour usually includes big tickets for scenic spots, group meals, hotel accommodation, tour guide services, round-trip e-tickets or tickets, etc. If you don't shop, you basically don't need to spend any more.

Self-help tour: the cost of self-help tour includes air tickets, hotels, local transportation, tickets and meals, which need to be solved by yourself, and the cost will be more expensive than that of group tour.

4, the degree of trouble is different

Tour with a group: Because tour with a group is a tourism society, arrange everything in the tour, such as attractions, accommodation, food and so on. Don't bother at all, just follow the guide.

Self-help tour: all the trips of self-help tour should be planned and arranged by yourself. Attractions, routes, food, transportation, etc. You need to do it yourself, so you don't have to worry about traveling with a group.

5. Different safety factors

Tour with a group: If you participate in a tour with a group, you will sign a formal contract with the travel agency, with insurance and a tour guide, which has a high safety factor.

Free travel: Self-help travel depends entirely on yourself. During your trip, you may encounter different languages, you don't know the way, you can't find a place, etc. And the safety factor is lower than that of group tour.

6, the time utilization rate is different

Tour with a group: If you travel with a group, the travel agency has arranged all the itineraries and just follow the tour guide. One scenic spot after another, the time utilization rate is very high.

Self-help tour: Although self-help tour is free without a guide, it is prone to unexpected situations, such as what if there is no restaurant at dinner time? What if there is no hotel at bedtime? No matter how high the price is, what if the hotel is full? If the trip is delayed, a lot of work will be affected, and most of the time may be spent looking for a hotel, and it will take time to bargain when looking for a hotel. There is not much time for real play, and the time utilization rate is not as high as that of group tour.

7. Travel fun is different.

Tour with a group: Generally speaking, if you travel with a group, the tour guide will explain and introduce each scenic spot. While enjoying the scenic spots, you can learn more knowledge and have more fun.

Free travel: If there is no tour guide to explain the tour, it may happen that after seeing the scenic spots, you don't know some characteristics and origins.

8. The journey feels different.

Free travel (self-help tour) is planned by yourself before departure, such as making itinerary, cost budget, car (plane) tickets and hotel reservations, and ticket reservations for various scenic spots. The smooth realization of free travel can help us learn a lot and improve our independence. The sense of satisfaction and accomplishment gained in free travel can't be realized with group tours.

Moreover, compared with group tours, self-help tours can get a more real and in-depth understanding of local cultural customs, special foods and so on. During the trip, you can also get to know friends from different places who also like self-help travel, share their travel experiences and enjoy the beautiful scenery neglected by tour groups. At this time, you will find that the self-help tour is full of surprises and happiness.

Third, what should I pay attention to when traveling with a group?

1, choose a regular travel agency.

Choosing a regular travel agency is not only to ensure the quality of our play, but also to ensure our safety. Therefore, we must ensure that the travel agency we choose has a formal business license, and we must not be confused by "low-cost groups", which are often accompanied by other paid items or the behavior of taking tourists to shopping spots. In short, you must choose a reliable travel agency to travel with a group.

2. Make clear the details of the contract with the group tour.

Article 10 of the law on the protection of consumers' rights and interests stipulates that consumers have the right to fair trade and have the right to refuse the compulsory trading behavior of operators. If the tour guide retaliates against the tourists by abandoning the tour group or not arranging accommodation when the tourists refuse to make compulsory transactions, the travel agency shall bear the responsibility in accordance with the Trial Standards for Compensation for Quality Margin of Travel Agencies. At the same time, the Regulations on the Administration of Travel Agencies and the Measures for the Administration of China Citizens Going Abroad clearly stipulate that domestic travel agencies that organize outbound travel should bear the responsibility and then claim compensation from overseas travel agencies that breach the contract. So you should read the contents carefully before signing the contract. There is also the need to pay attention to the issue of tour fees. Everyone's tour fee is different, because tourists come from different starting points, so there is the lowest to the highest price, and everyone's itinerary, accommodation, catering and so on. They are all the same, so when considering travel agencies, you might as well ask more travel agencies that travel at the same time before making a decision.

3. Preparation of travel goods

Need to bring clothes, shoes, cash, bank cards, cameras, mobile phones, mobile power, certificates, essential drugs, etc. When traveling abroad, the key point is to interpret the passport: when traveling abroad, no matter what happens, you must not give your passport to the tour guide or other people for safekeeping. This is an important proof that you are protected by your motherland when you return to China. At the same time, if you unfortunately give your passport to the tour guide, you don't have to worry about the tour guide threatening your passport, because you have the right to ask the embassy for help for illegally detaining your passport. If he really dares to detain you, he will not only pay for your room and board, but also revoke their travel agency licenses. At the same time, domestic travel agencies will not only have to refund the fees in full, but also double indemnity. It is impossible for any travel agency to turn ordinary events into diplomatic events, so it will not do things that may lead to bankruptcy for thousands of dollars, and the cost is too high.

4. Pay attention to personal safety

When traveling, you must pay attention to personal safety. Don't take risks in dangerous places. Before traveling, leave the phone number of the tour guide and the phone number of your peers with your family, so that when you can't contact yourself, your family can get in touch with other people in the tour group and get their own news. Speaking of which, we also need to pay attention to the room card problem. Room cards are often used by tour guides to threaten tourists. In fact, this weapon seems to be powerful, and the attack essence is zero. If the tour guide does not open a room for tourists, it will not exceed 12, because once it exceeds 12, according to the relevant regulations, the travel agency can be judged to be in breach of contract and not open a room for tourists. The consequence is that they not only have to refund the fee in full, but also bear legal responsibility. Especially in foreign countries, the tour guide will never let you leave this hotel, because as long as you leave the hotel with one foot, it is not an ordinary event. This is a diplomatic incident in which China people are treated unfairly abroad and their security is threatened. You can call the embassy for protection, and they will send someone immediately, which is their obligation.

5. Remember the time and license plate number when traveling.

When traveling, you'd better follow the tour guide, don't fall behind, and remember the assembly time and bus license plate number. If you really fall behind during the tour, get in touch with the tour guide as soon as possible.

6. Rational consumption

Tour guides can get kickbacks through our shopping, so it is inevitable that group tours will be taken to shopping spots by tour guides for consumption. You must be rational when you consume, and you will have the impulse to consume when you don't see others buying it. It is difficult to guarantee the quality and authenticity of goods at shopping spots, so try to avoid buying things at shopping spots where the tour guide takes us. We also need to pay attention to the issue of bargaining here. Whether it's abroad or at home, it's actually the same. In addition to specialty stores, you can bargain, from chartered cars and yachts to small coconuts and souvenirs. Especially in tourist areas, almost halved. As for the tour guide's statement that he can't bargain and the local people are barbaric, it's all a lie, because the more fraud, the more afraid people will know the truth.