What are the forms of tour groups? How to choose a travel agency and go on a group tour?

In fact, many people nowadays choose to travel in a group if they are afraid of trouble. However, it is actually very easy to get into trouble when traveling in a group. So the question is, how to avoid getting into trouble? Another question is, what are the ways to travel in a group? Travel agency forms

What are the types of group tour services provided by travel agencies?

Group travel

Group travel is to follow the group throughout the whole process, arranging everyone’s food, accommodation, travel, shopping and entertainment. This is the deepest level of knowledge. I will not express it for now. , I will talk to you slowly later.

Free travel

Free travel means booking your own air tickets, hotels, and itineraries. You can do whatever you want to do? But what does this have to do with travel agencies? Because travel agencies specialize in launching some "hotel air tickets" , "hotel attractions" package, this kind of package price is often much cheaper than booking air tickets and hotels by yourself.

Semi-self-guided tours

Semi-self-guided tours are between group tours and independent tours. You can enjoy the preferential prices of group tours without being bound to group tours. journey. Generally, for a 4-day itinerary, the first and last two days are group tours, with pick-up and drop-off services and sightseeing tours provided. The middle two days are free activities and only hotel accommodation is provided, so there is a certain amount of relaxation.

Private tours

Let’s talk about private tours. Private tours are slightly different from customized tours. Private tours have established route templates, and users share the cost equally according to the number of people, one for each group. You can enjoy the discounts of group booking without having to join a group with other individual guests. When there are a lot of people, discounts are great.

Customized tours

Finally, customized tours are completely arranged according to the customer’s requirements, such as which hotel they want to stay in, what meals they want to eat, and where they want to visit, as long as they comply with the regulations Everything can be arranged legally. And don’t think that customized tours must be expensive. Now the prices in the tourism industry are so open and transparent. What can’t be found? The current quotation for customized tours is based on the cost plus a service fee of 10-20 RMB. This type is more suitable for enterprise customization, or customers who have money but no time to spare. As long as the money is in place, everyone is guaranteed to be satisfied. How to choose a group tour

Before choosing a group tour, the first thing to do is not to choose the route, but to choose the platform!

After the outbreak of the epidemic this year, how many small travel agencies closed down, and the boss directly Not only do tourists lose everything by running away, but many tour guides don’t know how to recover the tour money they advanced.

Also in July, Atlantis in Sanya was a hit. Tourists paid a high price to buy 3 nights at Atlantis, but they were unable to stay and had to sleep on the streets. Asking where to order the product? Mom group in the circle of friends! Have you signed a contract? No!

The role of a travel agency is quite special. He is not a resource provider, but a platform that integrates various resources, and works with hotels, Airlines and scenic spots are interdependent and mutually beneficial, and a reliable platform provides the most complete guarantee.

Otherwise, if something happens and you run away, who will you go to?

So, when I recommend products to customers, including ordering them myself, I will only buy them from large platforms or smaller ones. Choose from a major travel agency. Although it is a bit more expensive, it is guaranteed.

Guests often show me posters of certain discounted tour groups. I identify the QR code and enter, often only the itinerary with a bunch of format clauses attached. It looks serious, but I have never heard of this travel agency, and it doesn’t even have the travel agency license number that must be marked?

What is the difference between this and the three-no product? Something happened. , who are you looking for?

After choosing a platform, you must first clarify the travel destination. However, the planting part is mainly under the control of "a certain sound" and "a certain book". The travel agency is responsible for weeding, and then It’s just about selecting team products.

Before choosing a product, the first thing to do is to think about your budget.

The online platform has a very useful price sorting function. First, look at it from high to low, and from low to high, so that you have a good idea.

But this kind of sorting without filtering conditions is just a hodgepodge in one pot. Hard attributes such as private tours are removed. The remaining group tours and semi-self-guided tours are what we are going to talk about today.

Do you think that as long as you spend more money on a group tour, you can eat well, live well, and have fun? It’s just fun without shopping?

The first half of this sentence The sentence is correct. If you spend more money, the accommodation, transportation and other arrangements will definitely be better. But if you spend more money, it must be just fun without shopping? That is not necessarily the case.

To give a specific example, the Taiwan line organized by our agency has two products, one is a 5-diamond shopping group priced at 8,000, and the other is a 3-diamond pure play group priced at 3,000.

You read that right, I spent more than 8,000 and had to arrange shopping in the store, because this hotel is good, the whole journey is five-star, and the cost is high. On the contrary, the group of more than 3,000 spent all its time on sightseeing. .

Of course, the accommodation you live in cannot be compared with a five-star hotel. It is reasonable to have gains and losses.

So when you are selecting products, you must consider everything comprehensively. Does it require that the hotel must be 5 stars? Does it have to be purely for fun without shopping? If it is cheaper to enter the store, will you consider it?

If I go out on my own, I will choose a slightly inferior hotel, but I don’t want to go into the store to shop. It’s all with my colleagues. If you don’t want to buy it, you know that it’s difficult to be a tour guide, so just buy it, haha

, I also know that this thing is not worth the price. With this money, it is better to sign up for a pure play group.

After thinking through these additional options, you can select some products through filtering and sorting. The pitfalls of group travel

Outbound travel is not yet open, so I will tell you about domestic travel routes.

1. Although it is a purely fun and non-self-financed itinerary, can the tour guide recommend self-financed items? Yes!

The routines we are familiar with include: small transportation in domestic scenic spots, two Tickets, entertainment items in the scenic area, etc.

There are some things interspersed in the line: they are originally appearance projects, but they are already at the door. Do you have to pay a ticket if you want to go in? Otherwise, you have to wait at the door for 30 minutes or an hour.

It was originally a hiking route, but you can better appreciate the scenery of the mountains and rivers by taking a boat. Do you want to take this boat?

Also, it originally did not include meals, but now there is no village in front of it. Without a store, we have no choice but to have a group meal. Do you want to have a special meal?

These are gray areas in team operations. Regular travel agencies will clearly mark them. If they say it is just for fun, it is just for fun. However, it is not ruled out that some small travel agencies will use these routines. "Playing on the edge".

I am not recommending that everyone participate, but I am just reminding everyone to add these expenses to the budget when selecting the itinerary before departure, so as to have an idea of ??the overall expenditure of the itinerary.

2. Let me remind you that many lines will list "quasi-four-star" hotels. This term does not exist in domestic hotel star ratings. A four-star rating with the word "quasi" is definitely not a four-star rating, and may not even be a three-star rating.

The new version of the contract clarifies the content of the "Travel Itinerary", in particular, it stipulates that the terms in the itinerary must be accurate and clear, and "quasi × ??star hotel", "luxury", " Uncertain terms such as “for reference only”, “subject to ××”, “same level as ××”.

So the wording of a compliant "travel itinerary" is very accurate. Where to go? How long to stay? How much to spend? It should be written clearly and clearly. If it is unclear, , the price is very cheap, so be careful, there must be pitfalls, and it will definitely cost you more.