The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide

Nowadays, with the rapid development of people’s lives, the great popularity of travel has aroused a great deal of attention. Have you ever thought about how to go on a vocation that full of joyfulness? Is it the best way to travel in a group led by a tour guide? From my perspective, however, this idea cannot totally acquire my acceptance. Although hiring a tour guide can provide us more information for visitors, there are far more demerits than merits.

To begin with, leading by a tour guide takes risks in some degree. As all of us know, security is the prior factor that we have to concern before taking a trip. However, the phenomenon of deception of travel agency is not rare to see currently. Nothing can be more obvious to support this view than the instance of my first hand. Last summer, I went to Hong Kong for a vocation with my family. We handled all of the procedures in the travel agency and they invited a conductor as our tour guide. We were supposed to have a wonderful time enjoying the flourishing scenery. By contrast, we were totally deceived by him all the time that we were forced to go shopping at a certain amount of money everyday. In this case, I clearly learned that following the tour guide without carefulness may walk us into the trap.

Apart from this, travelling in a group by a tour guide restrict our liberty and privacy. For instance, If we go travelling by ourselves, we can choose the place where we want to live, wherever near the seaside or close to the downtown; We can choose what we enjoy eating, seafood or western food; We can control the time that how long we want to stay in the hotel or how long we prefer having fun in the amusement park. A variety of choices are harbored on our own. However, it is a completely different story following the tour guides. They will deprive us of our time or right, even money for their own profit.

Judging from all the evidence offered, although travelling with a tour guide may introduce more for