Figuring out why someone take a tour in a first world country would

Figuring out why someone take a tour in a first world country would -

There always seems to be a negative attitude, go under the independent traveler on group travel. Many own tours as spurious trip, while others see nothing wrong with them. Personally I like trips and am in the "group tours are OK" Camp. My first trip was overseas on a trip to Costa Rica. There are some places in the world where you have to go on a tour, because it simply too difficult or too complicated to go on your own. Examples of this are going on safari in Africa, scaling Mt. Kilimanjaro, travel to Antarctica, and Machu Picchu climbing (to name a few).

If many friends and readers found out that I take a tour of Japan, asked her why I would travel to a country that has such a good infrastructure and a well-beaten track. It's not really a "need a travel group" country, after all. And as an experienced and known lovers of independent travel, it seemed a little out of character for me.

As an experienced traveler, it is easy for me the trip to think so, "easy." Take the leap, go somewhere, and it all works out in the end. to navigate a city is navigating at home. You go, you can visit, take the train. It's really not that hard if you take the first step. Sure, there are language barriers, but overall, essentially places all over the world, the navigation is the same: figure out the bus system, go places you eat, drink, sleep, and repeat it the next day. But not everyone feels that way.

I have said in the past, the tours are ideal for people who might be nervous about traveling alone or are not used to traveling. I used that snobby be travelers who thought Group tours were stupid and that the people they were adopted unenlightened about independent travel. Then I started to travel to work and realized that not everyone will find easy travel.

More importantly, all form of travel serves a purpose.

While in Cambodia, I met some people at the G-adventure tours in the area and I asked myself: "Why Southeast Asia traveling in a group, if you do it for $ 20 per day for yourself can? Why not save money and travel more? "

and the answer I hear most often? Anxiety.

fear of the unknown.

People do not know much about the area or what to expect, and that the guide information gap to go to worry alone and find their own way. So they signed for a tour, because they were afraid, -. Afraid they would people do not do justice, unsure of their safety, and uncertain about how the journey

The next time, they said, they probably would be traveling alone. The tour gave them the confidence they needed.

But Japan is not Southeast Asia. It is much more developed. So I was curious about traveling here, and I wanted the opportunity to people to ask - why on earth would you take a tour in a country that can be easily explored alone

And when I asked people on my tour, same question, what I got? The same answer that I got in Cambodia.

And I could see where my colleagues Tour members came from. Even I, a seasoned traveler, scratched my head on the Tokyo subway map. I lost a couple of times. It was confusing is no signs in English, and the majority of the population does not speak my language. Japan will be developed, but it is not easy.

For me the challenge is par for the course, but for someone who has not previously traveled that could be intimidating. And talking to the people on my tour I reinforced a conclusion prior to a while came: tours are ideal for people who wet their feet when it comes to traveling, , even if that means a trip to a country take the First world.

There is nothing wrong with that. Independent travel is not for everyone, so let's just celebrate what people get out of their homes and into the world.

I know, I know.

And the tour itself?

It was definitely interesting, take a tour of a highly developed country. Most of the tours, which are I take to destinations such as the Galapagos, where you need a guide and registered operators. Finally, land tours are rapidly not often my thing. I spend usually not just two weeks in a country. I travel slowly. If I did Japan at my own pace, I would spend there are two months trying to see every bit of it.

That being said, I thought the track was very well designed. It fits many different places around the country. We propose the major cities of Kyoto, Tokyo and Hiroshima and some smaller towns like Takayama, which I had never heard. For a tour that will show the highlights of Japan, I think it succeeded.

It is for someone on a short holiday was perfect, the lot of land.

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see, and as always, I enjoyed the fact that G Adventures offers small group tours. There were 15 of us on the trip, which allows us to learn all know each other. We fit well in small local restaurants without his obnoxious tour group, which takes place on the, so that the local experience ruin we see came to. (I can agree with tours in theory, but mix the large, 50-seater bus tours, the tourists from sight to sight? No way. I simply can not accept this. I have my limits!)

I can not say that I have real complaints about the tour. It would have been nice if we had been able to spend more time in Tokyo as a group and if they had the fish market optionally made an enclosed group activity instead of a. But these are really minor complaints

go as tours, it was great and had all the elements should have an epic tour :. A well-thought-out itinerary, a small group, a nice and knowledgeable guide, and a mix of well and lesser known destinations.

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