How does the story compare to a safari or journey today?

"A Sound of Thunder" is very different from a modern-day safari trip, hunting trip, fishing trip, etc. in one major way. Modern day vacationers are not capable of traveling back in time. That means modern-day trips do not include hunting dinosaurs. Other than that major difference, the trip in the story is very similar to hunting trips or fishing expeditions that I have been on. In modern times and in the story, people pay a fee in order to go on a guide-led trip. The guide(s) serves as the expert on when and where to go, and he/she takes the paid group members to a spot that will hopefully maximize results. Just like in the story, modern-day hunters or fishermen are not allowed to shoot and kill indiscriminately anything that moves. Only certain species are allowed to be shot or fished, and at times the prey have to be a certain age or even sex. This is why Travis was along. He had to ensure the men on the time safari only killed the dinosaur that had been previously scouted.