Thank you for your review! We're so sorry your first interaction with us was so negative, and we're glad that you touched base with us again and had a better experience. Many of our tours do explore the cultural and economic values of textiles in the many areas we visit, and some of trips do also include live demonstrations of their productions, or talks about them in local marketplaces. In your first call the miscommunication from our sales team was just that our tours are not shopping tours and that shopping for such textiles would need to be done in any travellers' free time, we're sorry it wasn't made more clear that we do explore their cultural value and at time have demonstrations about them included on our tours. Thank you for coming back and giving us another chance! We look forward to having you on tour with us and making sure you have a fantastic travel experience with Adventures Abroad.