Is it better to travel alone or with a group?

Regarding travel, do you choose to travel by yourself or with a group? Bian Xiao thinks so. If time is tight, play with the group. Just arrange it properly. If you have enough time, play by yourself. Plan where you want to go and walk forward unhurriedly. So is it better to travel with a group or by yourself? Bian Xiao made a detailed analysis for everyone. If you are interested, look down carefully.

What are the advantages of traveling with a group?

Many people travel by themselves, and the awareness of finding a travel agency to arrange travel matters has not been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This will tell you the benefits of traveling with a group:

It is normal to have doubts, on the one hand, because some media mislead the basic functions of travel agencies; On the other hand, some friends exaggerate individual cases of poor service quality of travel agencies; Moreover, some friends mistakenly think that staying with travel agencies will not be free, or they will be slaughtered or forced to spend. As an old tourist who has been to dozens of countries and almost all provinces and cities in China, in my experience, it is best to cooperate with travel agencies when traveling. Because traveling with a regular travel agency has at least ten advantages.

Benefit 1: cheap and good quality

Some friends may be discouraged by some irregular travel agencies and "travel by themselves" in a rage.

"Well, I didn't know that a' self-help tour' often costs many times more money than the same consumption, and at the same time it is more timid by foreign hotels, scenic spots and shopping spots. A person's transportation cost, scenic spot ticket price and room rate are not the same as the price of thousands of passengers in a travel agency. Even friends in go on road trip, it is best to book rooms, air tickets, itineraries and routes through travel agencies. At the same time, travel agencies can help provide itinerary design and safety control. Otherwise, drive to the scenic spot and go to the hotel, and then bargain when you find the hotel. Let's not say that there may be no room when the housing supply is tight during the Golden Week, that is, most of them will only be slaughtered.

Benefit 2: Save time.

A friend said I could go out by myself, no matter what. However, what if you can't come back then? What if there is no hotel at bedtime? What if there is no restaurant at dinner time? No matter how high the price is, what if the hotel is full? If the trip is delayed, many jobs will be affected. And it is possible that most of the time is spent looking for hotels. It takes time to bargain when looking for hotels, and there is not much time for real play.

Benefit 3: The cost is controllable.

Before departure, the travel agency lists the expenses of food, accommodation, transportation, etc. in detail in the contract, and the extra expenses are controlled by itself, and the overall budget of the tour is defined before departure; Needless to say, the cost of "self-help tour" will often be greatly overspent, and there are still a lot of unforeseen expenses waiting for you at present. I've been to Tibet myself before, and I heard from my friends that it costs up to 5,000 yuan, and more than 8,000 yuan has never stopped. Although I brought my bank card, it is not convenient everywhere, the cost is overspent and the accommodation conditions are greatly discounted.

Benefit 4: security

Travel agencies have business relations and are very familiar with local conditions. They made professional inspections on cars, road conditions, terrain and places where unsafe factors may occur in all links, and stepped on the line. Moreover, in order to protect the interests of tourists, travel agencies generally pay all-round travel insurance premiums to insurance companies on behalf of tourists; The tourism team is an organized action, with arrangements for food, accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, shopping and entertainment, which reduces the troubles and mistakes caused by their own handling but unfamiliar with local conditions, and virtually reduces many unsafe factors.

Benefit 5: service guarantee

First of all, travel agencies can choose tourist routes on their behalf, which can avoid the defects of tourists' lack of tourism knowledge and information. In hotels, vehicles and scenic spots, travel agencies know the situation earlier and have cooperated for many years, so the service quality is guaranteed. Travel agencies have specialized institutions and personnel, namely, the planning department, external liaison department, planning and external liaison personnel of travel agencies, who are engaged in collecting information, analyzing market conditions, arranging and selecting routes for tourists, etc. Because of this specialization and its continuous experience accumulation, the arrangement and selection of tourist routes are more reasonable, which can improve the quality of tourism, fully realize the purpose of tourism, and save the time and expenses of tourists accordingly.

Benefit 6: worry and effort

Before the trip, the travel agency has arranged the accommodation, transportation, tour guide, tickets, catering and other items for this trip. What tourists have to do is to browse happily, without the pain of running around and queuing to buy tickets. Usually there is no long vacation, but it is difficult to book tickets and reservations when there is a long vacation. Everything is handled by the travel agency, which saves worry and effort.

Benefit 7: Take what you need.

In recent years, through continuous innovation, travel agencies have launched many personalized products, such as sunset tour, photography tour and food tour, as well as "Freeman" and "go on road trip Package" for travel agencies to book air tickets. There are many domestic and foreign products that travel everywhere, so we can get what we need according to our own situation.

Benefit 8: Choose the best among the best.

There are many travel agencies, including more than 400 in Xi 'an, with prosperous employees. This is definitely a good thing for travelers. We can shop around, compare brands, services and innovations, choose the best among the best, and choose companies and partners that suit us.

Benefit 9: Make friends.

Traveling with a group, eating, living, traveling and playing, virtually enhanced friendship, made friends from all corners of the country, and some even reached business cooperation. There are many love stories in the journey.

Benefit 10: Suitable study tour.

As the saying goes, "the beauty of mountains and rivers lies in the mouth of the tour guide." In addition to the visible natural mountains and rivers, the scenery of a place also has local folk customs, cultural accumulation and aesthetic characteristics of natural resources. Through the tour guide's explanation, I learned a lot of knowledge invisibly in the process of traveling, and I will be glad that you came to visit.

Benefits of self-help tour

Self-help tour is a more free and convenient way to travel, the itinerary can be adjusted at will, and the idea of traveling can be changed on the itinerary.

Since there are no shopping and self-funded projects, tourists' money can be spent on the "cutting edge" of free travel. They go to play wherever the most worthwhile scenic spots are. This is free time.

There are still many people who have a wrong understanding of self-help travel. Many people think that self-help travel is a way to save money. The content of the tour is rough, and there may be many dangers. The hotel will feel unsafe without booking.

In fact, if we deeply understand the characteristics of self-help tourism, we will find that self-help tourism is a quite exquisite and distinctive form of tourism.

Self-help tour allows all expenses to be controlled according to your own preferences, the itinerary can be flexibly adjusted, and you can gain a deeper understanding of local customs.

Self-help tour is by no means a more fun and cheaper way to travel, but to spend more time in the same place to deeply understand the characteristics of this place, get in touch with local people and things, see what you want to see and take the road you want to go.

The following analyzes the characteristics of self-help tourism from different levels:

Tourism mode

Generally, tour groups are limited by the consideration of group and cost, so most of the travel modes remain unchanged. Every place, the tour leader will give tourists a period of time to visit and take pictures, then go to the next stop and show them as many places as possible.

This can meet the requirements of most people for travel, hoping to see the most things in the shortest time.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this form of tour group itself, except that participants must cooperate with the group, so passengers feel that their actions are bound everywhere.

In addition, for the unity and safety of group action, and to avoid the inconvenience or delay caused by any individual action, the team leader is often reluctant to let the members act alone.

The biggest feature of self-help tourism is that the tourism content is very independent, and everyone has enough time to enjoy the fun of traveling. Even a semi-self-help tour with a suitable itinerary can enjoy free activities and tourism content.

The travel content and itinerary are mostly dominated by self-help tourists, which is the biggest feature of self-help travel and the most attractive place.

Those who like mountains can arrange to go to the Himalayas or Zhangjiajie in Tibet, those who like the sea can go to famous beaches in Hainan Island and Qingdao, and those who have a soft spot for art will go to major art galleries in Beijing. Self-help tourists can make different itineraries according to their needs.

financial control

Many people think that self-help travel is a way to save money. This statement is only half right. It should be said that self-help tourists can completely control their travel expenses and spend every penny in their own hands.

Generally, the biggest convenience of all-inclusive tour groups is to follow the tour leader after paying the tour fee, so don't worry too much about accommodation. Relatively speaking, accommodation and tourism content can't be controlled by yourself.

Therefore, self-help travel is not so much a way to save money as a way to spend money where you want to spend it most. In fact, the consumption of foreign self-help tours is by no means less than that of ordinary sightseeing groups, and the place to save money lies in the arrangement of accommodation.

Planned tourism

Planned travel is another feature of self-help travel.

Since the idea of self-help tour came into being, people who travel on their own began to make plans, from measuring their time and financial resources, their interests and the provinces they want to visit, planning their trips, asking people who have been there and so on. These are the initial plans.

Determine the initial itinerary, start looking for information, arrange a more detailed itinerary, etc. After you leave, you should make good living arrangements and arrange visits every day. These are all necessary tasks, and you must finish them one by one in a planned way.

However, this does not mean that self-help tours cannot leave at will. If the self-help tour is experienced and adaptable, as long as time permits, the self-help tour can still start at any time.

Depends on what you need

The biggest advantage of joining a group is convenience. Everyone has arranged food, clothing, housing and transportation. You just have to pay. Generally speaking, due to the characteristics of economies of scale, the cost of group travel will be relative to the cost of individual travelers. Since compared with free travel, the biggest disadvantage is obviously-

Not free! Not free! Not free! Of course there are risks. The service of tour guides, the quality of peers, semi-compulsory consumption, and whether the route arrangement is reasonable. All need to be considered, and it is largely uncontrollable. Even so, the convenience and safety of group tour are far better than free travel.

On the contrary, the advantages of free travel are freedom, customized itinerary, customized accommodation, customized diet and customized work and rest.

Basically, except for things that violate the law and discipline, you can play whatever you want.

For example, in Thailand, you can rent a small electric car and wander around the city. Find whatever you want to eat. If you want to get up in the morning and take pictures in the temple, you won't be regarded as a problem child by the tour guide.

In China, you can use the time difference to avoid "annoying" tour groups.

Not to mention, if you want to experience the local customs seriously, you can only travel freely, and at least have time to sit on a bench by the lake and chat and brag with the locals ~

Free travel is always accompanied by some uncertain factors, such as transportation, itinerary, weather, hotels and accommodation. These customizable things may be a joke to you-traffic was detained, traffic jam missed the flight, the exhibition hall time was changed, and the equipment was wet by the sudden rainstorm.

This kind of thing happens to me every minute. If free travel needs to achieve the comfort of high-quality tour groups, the cost will be high.

According to your travel experience, the safety and convenience of the destination, the time to prepare the plan, the travel time and the estimated cost.

I wish you all a pleasant journey ~