‘It is better to travel alone than to join a tour group.’

Name: Zara Wong
Class: 4A (15)

Let’s tour the world

Living in Hong Kong, people always bear a burden.  Hence, they will travel around the world to relax and release their pressure.  However, is it better to travel alone or to tour in a group?

Personally, I would definitely choose to join a group tour.  Firstly, for the safety as it is always the first thing that we need to contemplate.  When we tour in a group, we can get help from others easily.  For example, if you are injured, your group members can help you to call the ambulance.  Furthermore, we won’t get lost easily.  Since we have a professional tour guide leading the way and his hand will be holding a team flag which can let us recognize the team that we belong to and where our friends are.  What’s more, some people might argue that if we travel alone, we can buy the insurance to protect ourselves as well.  Nevertheless, I think the tour guide has a lot of prior experience.  Therefore, he can purchase the insurance that suits us the most and another advantage is that when we purchase it in a group, it is even cheaper than if we purchase it alone.

Secondly, convenience is also an essential part of travelling in a group.  Our schedule will be well-organized by the agency.  For example, the coaches, the meals, the hotels, etc. are arranged for us.  The schedule is really fruitful as well since the agency will help us to go to different famous tourist sites.  And speaking of tourist sites, some people might think that we can go there on our own.  Why do we need to join the tour group?  I think when we join the tour group to visit tourist sites, it is actually quite convenient and that is a fundamental factor.  When we join the tour, the agency will prepare some brochures for us about the history of those sites.  Thereby, we don’t need to spend time to google the information but we can still learn it.  Isn’t it a better choice to tour in a group?

Thirdly, we travel for a variety of reasons.  When we tour in a group, we can improve the relationship with our family as we might spend less time on our electronic gadgets and we can talk to each other face to face.  Also, we can learn to share our happiness with the group members.  As the saying goes “a shared joy is double joy.”  We can talk about the surroundings and make some interesting jokes.  Moreover, it is really a memorable activity as we can take photos with lots of people.  And when we get older, we might think that it was really crazy and funny to travel with a lot of people we didn’t know too much about.

When it comes to travelling, we have all heard that it is better to walk ten thousand miles than read ten thousand books.  We should treasure the time we can still breathe and walk and use the time to travel around the world with our family and friends.  Make your life more meaningful, fruitful and vivacious.