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Swan Travel Service Standards

On a typical Swan Travel group departure tour, we always choose the finest hotels and dining facilities for our travelers. We also give our traveler more flexibility on meal service. For example, there are numerous restaurants in Beijing, instead of heading to a tourist restaurant; we choose to dine at a new local restaurant located in a renovated old house in a side street of the city. We offer full board service which includes all meal arrangement in entire trip, we also offer half-board service which deducts a few dinners for some traveler who would like to skip dinner but enjoy more of their own free evening.
A typical wilderness day in our Adventure tour Program is different. Swan Travel strives to deliver luxury even in the wilderness. You normally wake up with a freshly brewed coffee or Chinese tea. After a breakfast of scrambled eggs and cereal or a traditional Chinese breakfast of noodle soup, travelers can start the trek or jeep ride with a small daypack that contains no more than personal necessities, such as a camera, water, and a simple lunch. Our local support staff will take down the camp and pack the horses later. After a full day's trek, you will arrive at the campsite that is already set up by the support staff. (They are likely to overtake travelers at around lunchtime). A full dinner with multiple dishes will be served shortly when you are just getting hungry.
Our typical Family & Fun Program, we run small family groups from 4-22 people. Once a group is bigger than 12, we will send our Trip Leaders who have rich leading experience. Also, we will have a Kid Coordinator who orchestrates activities for the entire family as well as events created for the younger crowd.

Swan Travel ‘s Senior Program are fit for first time visitors who are not only want to have a glance on the must-to-see sites, but also able to deeply explore the culture, history and Chinese arts. We invite local reputed expert in different fields to share their knowledge with our traveler, we arrange educational and private visit to those unopened section in museum.

Hotels: Instead of going for the standard choice of a large chain hotel, we often dig much deeper into the city and look for places with style and comfort. Our staff tests every lodge and inn before we recommend them for clients.
Meals: The Chinese tourism authority often designates restaurants for tourist groups. These places are often reliable, but in China, everyday there is a new restaurant somewhere. At Swan Travel, we keep updating our lists and choose the ones to which we would take our personal guests.
Drinking water, coffee and tea: We don’t recommend our clients to drink from taps anywhere in China. Instead, we provide bottled water and snacks throughout the journey. During meals, a cup of freshly brewed coffee or good Chinese tea often delivers the next level of comfort on a rigorous tour.
Vehicles: Dependent on the size of the group, we use 4WD jeeps or vans and buses in good condition. We normally use vans on paved roads for a large group of 10 people or more for a couple of reasons: not only do they allow plenty of room to move around in the vehicle, but they also allow opportunities to socialize or relax by yourself. All of our luggage and other travel gear is in a separate support truck.
We use drivers who maintain good safety records for all our journeys.
Safety procedures and record: Most of our travelers are high-end premium customers, who desire to visit unique, off-the beaten path destinations in comfort and safety. So far, we have been blessed with no accidents and we work hard to keep this record. Swan Travel ensures the safety of its customer in the following ways:

Our product development staff is constantly on the road, monitoring conditions and assessing the effects of developments on the safety and comfort of our travelers. If we have any reason to believe that safety or service levels are being compromised, Swan Travel will not run the tour.

Our leaders and support staff take the utmost care with every aspect of the trip from altitude-related concerns to ensuring proper, hygienic food preparation. If the tour is traveling off the beaten path, we will equip the group with at least one guide with first-aid certification and a first-aid kit.

 
 
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