Emily (Post) in Paris: A Guide to Group Tour Etiquette

Group tours can be incredible ways to travel the world: someone else plans the logistics, you get access to places you’d never find alone, and you might even make a few friends along the way. But they can also test your patience — and everyone else’s.

I've been on my fair share of group tours, and I've met all kinds of tourists: easy going ones, complainers, spendthrifts, partiers, and people you forget were on the bus.

Whatever your travel type, whether it’s your first group trip or your fiftieth, these unspoken rules will help you be the kind of traveler your guide remembers fondly… not the one that makes everyone roll their eyes at dinner.

And yes, I've created this etiquette guide from experience.