9 differences between us and other China tour travel agencies

Compared with high-end travel agencies in China, what are the differences between us? This has to mention the company's founder kely and why she started the company.

Our founder, kely, an ordinary Chinese college student, loves to travel. But she found that she did not have the economic strength to meet her travel aspiration.Consider that most non-high-income people faced similar problem- they also wanted to travel to China, but worried that they would not be able to afford the entire journey, and then put their ideas on hold. For this reason, kely founded the company, an affordable China tour guide service.

To be clear, we are not disapproving of relatively high-end China travel agencies.Price and service are always equal. If you have a sufficient budget, we would recommend that you choose a high-end travel agency to serve you even though we're also a travel agency and don't want to lose customer.

But we firmly believe that people of all income levels should have the same opportunity to enjoy travel. So we created this affordable China tour service platform.

Second,our tour guides are different.Most of the tour guides in other travel agencies are professional tour guides,while our tour guides are generally local people as guides. For example, if you plan to travel to Sichuan, China, then we will match you with a tour guide who is local to Sichuan, China. We think the local people already know enough about the local situation to be comparable to professional guides.They may even be familiar with things that professional guides do not.They can give tourists more detailed introduction and they familiarize with all the fun places,which can give tourists a deeper experience.In addition to requiring guides to be local, we also require our guides to have a college degree and a driver's license.The English level of college graduates can basically meet the needs of communication.The driver's license is required in order to meet the transportation use issues during the trip process.

Third, our payment methods are diverse, specifically in the following forms.

The practice of conventional travel agencies is to specify several established routes and then let the client choose from them.They used a package offer.

We take a more open way.Clients select a tourist destination, and then we introduce delicious food and interesting places around this destination,allowing customers to choose where they want to go.Customers have the right to choose here.

It should be noted that some attractions in China will charge admission fees or even require reservations. So our recommendations tend to be more biased towards places that are free to play and some places that the locals recognize as fun.Where tickets are required we will get your permission before adding them to your traveling route.

As a result, the quotation for our tour guide service is floating.Our Initial starting point is to help our clients save as much as possible, and only earn some necessary and limited expenses such as escorted traveling service fees and trip driving expenses.

Of course, we also have charge mode similar to other travel agencies. You can choose according to your own need.The characteristic of these two payment methods above is that the place choice is limited.

We also have all-inclusive price.In this mode, we will take you to all the interesting places and places with delicious food around the destination you choose, so that you don't have to agonize over and regret your limited choices.

There is also a special way.You give a budget of your own.This budget is what you are willing to spend in China, excluding the cost of your round-trip airfare.If the budget is too low, we may put our cooperation on hold.However, we will publish your travel requirements on our platform and in some tour groups that like self-driving travelling.If someone is planning to travel on a similar itinerary, we will inform you as soon as possible and assist in the communication between you so that you can travel with them. Despite the lack of budget, we still think this is a not bad way.You can make Chinese friends during the trip.

The fees for all our services are transparent ,affordable and clearly-priced.You are free to choose the service category according to your budget.In this way you can guarantee that the cost of the entire trip is manageable.

Fourth, the experience of travel is different.

The common travel agencies,because they set the route of the trip in advance and reservations are required for many processes,will not make any changes to the schedule regardless of wind and rain.They can't afford to change their itinerary, and it may even affect their subsequent travel arrangements.So they choose to ignore their customers' travel experience.The travel experience in this way is very bad.We tend to take a more flexible approach.If we encounter inclement weather such as windy and rainy days, we will change the original travel plan after obtaining your consent-reroute to places where you can still play and enjoy yourself in bad weather,or have a rest, or hold a food party indoors to cook authentic Chinese food for you. When the weather improves, we'll take you to places where we planned to go originally. we pay great attention to the customer's sense of travel experience.

Fifth, the pace of travel is not the same.

After you booked the tour service from other travel agencies,they may accelerate the pace of the entire trip in order to complete the arranged travel schedule and fulfill the travel promise to the customer. The whole pace is always in hurry, like a whirlwind sightseeing. we prefer leisure and slow travel pace to have our customers fully appreciate the beauty of each place, enjoy the local food and learn about the local culture. We think this is the true meaning of travel.

In order to enable customers to have a leisure travel process.We consider that the leisure travel model may extend the entire travel time, and the hotel accommodation fee will be a big expense, which many customers can not afford.Therefore,we generally advise our clients to live with us, stay in our homes, eat with us,live with us, and get along as friends.By contrast the fees we charge will be much less than you live in hotel.You can stay longer in China for the same amount of money.it will also be good for synchronizing our trips. At the same time, tourists can  can also experience the local way of life.Of course, this is not mandatory. Some tourists are more accustomed to staying in the hotel, we will respect the choice of them. The reason why we  come up with such scheme is to give visitors more choices.

Sixth, we will not force consumption.

When you come to China, you may be amazed at many goods in China. The guides of some travel service companies may take you to destinations that were not on the itinerary to stimulate your desire to buy.Without being familiar with China you may unconsciously follow your guide.The final result is that you make impulse purchases and spend more than you budgeted for. We won't do that.We will not ignore the consumer's willingness to spend during the tour and will not induce consumers to consume. If you see a souvenir you want to buy,we will tell you the reasonable price of the goods avoiding you buy much more than the product is worth.As for buying or not? What to buy? It's your choice. We won't interfere.

Seventh, travel itinerary planning is not the same.

Other travel agencies may be inclined to recommend tourist attractions that charge entrance fees and the places with a lot of paid entertainment. They'll plan travel content for you to choose from.You only have limited options.In the end you had to follow the route they had planned.It is the nature of businessmen to seek profit, and we have nothing to say.Although we also knew that this model had more revenue, while only need to make less preparation,we agreed that this was not what we wanted to do.

we also know that the high-end travel agency model may make more money. But we are just a small company trying to get a small piece of the travel service market. High-end is not our service position.

We hope that non-high-income people in other countries can also afford to travel to China.Therefore, we will specifically inform which attractions are charged and which attractions are free, so that customers can choose freely and the cost can be controlled,making the planning of the entire trip under the control of our clients.

Eighth, the service objects are different.

Many travel agents will scrape up enough traveling people to meet the expected group size,bringing together people who don't know each other.A lot of people don't like that.In addition to the reason that the places people want to travel is different,the service quality in this case may also not be so comprehensive and intimate.The tour experience will be relatively poor. We only choose to serve groups they know each other.For instance, you travel with your friends, maybe two, maybe three,maybe more, you know each other,we define this as a small group.Or you travel with your family.Your family is also a small group. The service objects we mainly serve are such small groups.We promise not to arrange strangers to travel with you unless you both want to travel together.

Ninth,the vehicles are different.

Many travel agencies generally take tour groups of more than 20 people. The vehicle that fits them is something like a bus that can hold ten or twenty people.We mainly serve small groups of 2-7 people.The family car is usually used as the means of transportation for our guides and such vehicles are relatively easy to park when traveling. Here are some pictures showing our tour car for your reference.

The above 9 points are the differences between our services and those of other travel agencies. If you also recognize our services and want to start a journey in China, please contact us.