Tourism really is a big business these days. It"s
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. It involves issues such as hotels, transportation, restaurants, shops, and
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people. The tour companies keep telling us what a good thing it is and how much we can learn about people and
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, but sometimes I wonder if this is really true.
A couple that I know
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last summer. They travelled with a tour group. It"s interesting to
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their experiences with some of the experiences of other people in the same tour group. My friends,
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, had some acquaintances, or friends, actually in some of the cities they were going to. Along the
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of their tour, they could go out with some of the local people and they could eat some of the local food and may see some of the local
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.
Other members of the tour group, however, never got away from the group at all. They never went out and did a thing on their own. Of course the tour company leaves it pretty much up to the people to do whatever they want. I
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that people wouldn"t go out on their own because of language problems and being a little bit afraid. But it seems to me that the more tourists can
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local people, the better off everyone is.