People who find it difficult to travel on tours

If you value personal feelings more than convenience, have a hobby of learning deeply about new lands, and need quiet and privacy, then you should not travel on a tour.

Besides those who should not travel independently, there are those who find it difficult to go on a tour because their interests and personalities often conflict with the characteristics of this type of service. Reader Trinh Hang, who often travels independently, shares her experience about this.

Tour travel and independent travel have their own advantages and disadvantages. Photo: Trinh Hang

Focus on personal feelings over convenience

Many tourists, when traveling, want to immerse themselves in each trip, want to find new emotions, new knowledge, want to enjoy the unique features of a certain land. They are willing to spend hours in a ruined sanctuary, wander for a few days on a deserted mountain range, or stay for weeks in a remote village. To have those emotions, they are willing to endure difficulties, hardships, and even inconveniences during the preparation process and during the trip. They do not hesitate to spend months to plan their own schedule, buy tickets, contact and book, travel by many different means of transport, rent a room, cook for themselves, and even do their own laundry.

Most tours cannot meet the above needs. Many tours are designed in a "quick and easy" way, taking visitors to many locations so there is little time. The advantage of this schedule is that visitors will be able to check in at many places, and the disadvantage is that there is only a very limited amount of time to visit. Many places do not allow visitors to visit inside, but only take pictures outside. If visitors want to learn more, they have to search online. In return, visitors on tours never have to think about how to plan an itinerary, find a car, or where to buy food. If any problems arise on the road, the tour staff will take care of them, while those who travel independently will have to do it themselves.

Need quiet and privacy

Except for luxury tours that are custom-made and often have few guests, most tours have dozens or even hundreds of people, and the group must have enough guests to depart. On these trips, most tourists do not know each other, are not of the same age, living standard, or locality. Therefore, sometimes tourists will have to accept companions who do not match their lifestyle or personality, and will not be able to have privacy.

For those who are open and easy-going, this is a good opportunity to make new friends and develop new relationships. For those who prefer quiet and privacy, it will be difficult for them to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the tour. Because they cannot accept living with many strangers as well as the "constraint" of the program, this group of tourists is willing to spend more effort, time, and money to travel independently. For them, privacy and freedom are more important.

Traveling on a tour inevitably means meeting people with different needs and interests. Photo: Trinh Hang

Adventurous

Safety is the top priority of every tour, because the service company is the party that bears the highest responsibility for all guests during the tour. Tour staff will have to strictly manage the time and schedule of the guests, minimizing spontaneous activities, unplanned locations, and experiences that cause additional costs compared to the original price.

Therefore, adventurous and discovery-loving people will hardly be satisfied with going on tours. This group of people is willing to "turn around" to a new activity if they find it interesting, willing to spend more money outside of the budget, extend the trip, and accept risks to get the feeling of excitement.

Be careful in spending

People who focus on personal financial efficiency will often ask: is this tour worth the money? They will look for information to compare self-travel and tour buying, to see which one has a better experience, worth the investment. With tours that often take customers to stores and supermarkets that they do not need to shop, careful spenders will not want to participate. Tours that waste too much time on the road (such as driving continuously from one location to another, while the time to visit each place is short), tourists also do not choose, because according to them, the travel time is both tiring and a waste of money.

Instead, careful spenders will spend weeks, even months, hunting for cheap tickets, finding promotional accommodations, and finding discounted sightseeing combos - things that tour travelers don't have the time or the desire to do. At the end of the trip, the amount of money that independent travelers spend may not be less than the amount they would have spent if they had gone on a tour, but they certainly don't have to spend that money to go to unwanted places.

Trinh Hang

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