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People have
different views on way of travelling. Some people claim that travelling as a
group with a tour guide is the best way for tourist to enjoy their time, while
others say that we are able to make the best trip without a group or a guide. I
firmly agree with the idea that having a guide or group is unnecessary option on a trip.
On the one hand,
there are some reasons why people arguing that tour requires a guide or people
with you.
First of all, the
most biggest benefit is that tour guide has tons of information on the tourist places. Because
they are aware of the place, they know which accommodation, restaurant and
activities is the most popular among tourist. We often see some people saying
that they had the worst trip because they had no idea what to do and where to
go. Moreover, it must be helpful that tour guides are also aware of the regular
prices around tour places. It has been reported that in India, local stores
have been asking more money in their shop to buy their souvenirs to foreigner compared to the
local buyers. With these reasonable factors, people believe that having a guide
tour makes your trip the best.
Nevertheless, I
personally opine that as I experienced the guide tour, there should be a lot
more things to bother you during the trip from a guide or group members
compared to being alone. Firstly, because people have all different values and
purposes on their trips, a firmed schedule from a tour guide cannot be
satisfying to the all tourists. For example, young people tend to prefer physical activities
to spending time in a museum and a café while older like them more. What is
more, we can often see that commercial tour advertisement includes a lot of
times to shopping because they get incentive as much as the tourist spend money
on shopping, which makes us spend a lot more money than we expected.
In conclusion, it
seems that tour guide has some of the benefit, however, as it is a doubled-side
sward, I personally disagree with the opinion that being in a group and having
a tour guide for trip is the best method to make trip better. |