■ Direction Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words. ■ Question Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use specific reason and examples to support your answer | |
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Topic : Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. | |
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Some people think that traveling in a group with a tour guide is better than traveling without a guide cause tour guides can provide more chances for sightseeing in limited time. However, I strongly believe that the best way to travel is backpacking because traveling includes the stage of planning and people can change their schedules by themselves and can have a chance to meet local people.
First of all, traveling contains not only visiting unfamiliar areas but also making a plan. Before taking a trip, people have to determine where and when to go and more importantly what they will focus on while traveling. Also, people often can enjoy making a plan for traveling because they can feel free from daily lives through just determining details for their future trips. Thus, actually people start their trips before departure. In contrast, if people choose group traveling, a tour guide makes a decision for every thing about a trip and they lose their opportunities to obtain this kind of pleasure.
Another drawback of tour guide-led traveling is that people cannot change the schedule while traveling. Trip can be different from what people imagine at home and they often encounter unexpected situations while taking a trip. It can happen that they want to stay longer in one place because it provides so many opportunities that they want to experience. On the contrary, it also can happen that people want to leave earlier some areas because these areas are not attractive enough to stay longer. However, a travel agency only provides fixed schedule so all the people in a group should follow it and tastes of some people cannot change it. In contrast, people can control their schdules whatever they want if they travel by themselves.
Moreover, if people just follow a tour guide, they do not have any chance to meet local people. One of the important purposes of traveling is to learn about history and culture of other people. And the best way to learn these things is to meet local people because they are a part of their history and the broad meaning of culture is the way of living. Through talking with local people, travellers can understand the area better. However, a tour-guide does not provide a chance to spend some time with local people and travellers have to just follow him or her.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that people have to travel by themselves because making a travel plan is a part of travel and people can change their schedule while traveling. Also it is because they can have an opportunity to meet local people, which is one of big pleasures traveling provides. These advantages are enough reasons to choose to travel by themselves rather than to follow a tour guide. | |
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