Last year when Finchem asked tour members to consider giving tournament sponsors more value by adding events they did not usually have on their schedule, some indicated they would.
He has asked tour companies to agree on a single route and wants to charge each bus to raise money for replanting grass and repairing broken street lamps.
Nelson H. H. Graburn, a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, said one of his graduate students recently asked tour guides in China to rate the tourists from various Western countries.
Hong Kong — source of more than 140,000 tourists here annually — issued its highest-level travel warning for the Philippines, asking tour groups to avoid the country and advising Hong Kong residents to leave immediately.
6 Ask your tour operator to assign you their best private guide.
"Is that a cigar he's smoking?" I ask my tour guide, Michael Clapper of e-cigarette company Vapestick.
Don't be afraid to ask a tour operator specific questions.
PLANNING A word to the birder going to India: First, ask your tour agency or lodge operator about weather, road conditions, park closures and rain.
You may ask to tour the kitchen afterward, or linger over coffee, or simply stare out at Columbus and his dour expression, and contemplate Nirvana.
When weighing fresh-food vendors, ask to tour their facilities and see their handling practices.
When weighing fresh-food vendors, ask to tour their facilities and see their handling practices, says Yudd. Pay special attention to the freshness and packaging of seafood.
