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For my Communicating Weighted Utilities in Decision Making paper, I am doing a comparison of the important features of a vacation that is purchased as a package versus a self-managed vacation for the summer of 2014, to Hong Kong. I’ve never been on a tour to Hong Kong before because I live there, but I would always recommend people to just self-manage their trip to Hong Kong because you can do more and you are not always on a rush to follow the tour package schedule. You are able to go to places on you own time and be relaxed. There are many advantages and benefits to having a self-managed vacation to Hong Kong than having a package deal, which can lead to a pleasurable trip.
I consulted with five people that would be beneficial for the research involved in this paper. The first person I consulted was my aunt because she works at a travel agency so I wanted to see what package deals were popular in today’s society. I also talked to be my mom and dad, my two friends who owns a yacht to get an estimate of how much gas was for the boat. With the help of these people listed, they are able to provide the information I needed. The criteria’s that I will be focusing on includes transportation, safety, food, and child friendly, knowledgeable tour guide, weather, hotel, entertainment, shopping, fees, and travel reputation. The five people I consulted felt like these eleven utilities were the most important and the others that didn’t get mentioned were not that important.

Here below are two tables. The first table shows the different utilities that I thought of before consulting the 5 people I picked. The second table is the top 11 Utilities that was formed when talking to the 5 people about the trip, along with the ranking ...

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...me nightlife entertainment. People can definitely do more if they self-manage their trips.
This trip to Hong Kong is 7 Days and 6 Nights. The two tables below is a breakdown of the costs if one was to travel with the travel package deal versus a self-managed deal.
Overall, I believe that a self-managed trip to Hong Kong is very practical and easy to do. By looking at the comparisons above, we can clearly see that it is a cheaper alternative and you get to go to so many more places than if one was to travel with a package deal. If anyone were to ask me about going to Hong Kong, I would definitely recommend places they can go to so they can plan their own itinerary of what they would want to do rather than stick with an itinerary that is so stressful with waking up early and catching the tour bus to get to places. A self-managed deal is more pleasurable and feasible.

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