Many single folks fear domestic or foreign travel because they may have no significant other or friend to share their travels with. They fear the loneliness of traveling alone. ‘Loneliness’ is the mind’s self-perceived emotional feeling of isolation, lack of companionship or being “unwanted”.

Not an idle concern. Human bonding has been fundamental to man’s evolution, survival and civilized advancement. We seek bonding in our personal, familial, and casual lives.

The fear of traveling alone is real. Avoidance of Loneliness is 3^rd in Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs.

Anecdote: At 28 I won the Dating Game TV show(s): with an all-expense paid stay & personal tour guide at exclusive Villa d'Este Hotel on Lake Como, Italy which I then extended with 2 weeks of solo independent travel to other nearby countries.   Yet, I came home early because I felt lonely without a romantic partner to share.            

A Large Bus Tour experience is the complete opposite of “alone’s loneliness”. Rather, it is a jam-packed melting pot packed into a large tour bus moving to & then thru tourist sites like a gaggle of chickens in constant close physical proximity for several days or weeks.