Four Types Of Tours
1. Independent Tour
No group, no guide, no schedule. You get your air transportation, transfers, and vouchers for your car and hotels. You chose your hotels from a list of varying prices and you go whenever and wherever you want.
The advantage is a lower price on your air, car and hotels because they're priced as a package based on the tour company's volume purchasing power.
2. Hosted Tour
You travel independently, but a representative of the tour company is available at each destination to assit you in planning and arranging activities. You get air, transfers, vouchers for your car and hotels, and often a sightseeing tour included, plus all the extra services of a local host.
3. Fully Escorted Tour
Here, you travel with a group and are accompanied by a professional escort who is responsible for ensuring that the tour goes smoothly. You get sightseeing, meals, transportation and accommodaitons. Rather than selecting a specific hotel, you usually chose a hotel category and the whole group stays in the same hotel.
NOTE: Escorted tours today allow time and freedom to break away from the group and explore on your own. For example, you may go on a morning tour but be free to go and dine wherever you want for the rest of the day.
4. Special Interest Tours
Here are a few popular special interest tours
Christian Tours
Culinary or Wine-Tasting Tours
Cultural Tours
Eco-Tours
Hard & Soft Adventure Tours
Horticulture Tours
Photography Tours
Ski,Dive, Golf, Tennis Tours
There's A Reason Today's Tours Are So Popular
Move Value -- More Enriching -- More Fun -- More Relaxing
Tour sales are up about 30% from eight years ago. Let me know which of the four kinds of tours you'd like. I'd love to help you get a great value, relax more, and help you get more out of your foreign travel experience, by taking one of today's tours!