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Someone says that group tour is quite convenient and useful. However, in my opinion, a group tour has more disadvantages than advantages. To be specific, group tour might reduce the opportunities for both flexible schedules and in-depth-studies for tourists.
To begin with, I hope to clarify the definition of the travel. It is the opportunity to see extraordinary environments and cultural monuments with relaxed mind. In other words, the first purpose of travel for tourists is relaxing. When it comes to think a group tour, however, you can easily imagine the time tables and schedules for accommodations, museums, transportation and meals, which were already fixed before departure by tour guide. Just last summer, my family traveled China by using group tour service. It was horrible for my family; the schedule was too tight to relax. Even my younger brother had a severe diarrhea at that time, we could not relax at the hotel because of the reserved transportation to go the other city. This shows the direct disadvantages of group tour. Of course, group tour is cheaper than individual tour. If you consider the first principle of traveling, you are better to travel by individuals.
In addition, as I mentioned in previous paragraph, during traveling, we would like to see exotic things such as architectural forms, cultural heritages, and traditional rituals. As we well know, group tour cannot provide various options to see those things; they only provide limited routes for glancing some popular things, without consideration of tourists' interests. Even if the group tour company gives a chance to see some specific monument, the tourists have only small amount of time to glance it. One might say that this type of traveling is a "get, glance and go". Unlike group tour program, individual tour makes more flexible time to enjoy the exotic features. You can enjoy your time at your favorable space; you can grab a chance to watch MLB at the stadium, without watching some boring national history museum.
As I have stated, the group tour has a more disadvantage than advantage because of the inflexible and pre-planned schedules. This is why I strongly believe that individual tour is better to relax and enjoy the traveling for tourists than group tour.
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