Why are the players travelling in hamlet?

Answer 1

Hamlet asks Ros and Guil this question in the play. Companies of actors did not like to travel; their makeshift theatres in small country towns could not hold the audiences the city theatres could, and the towns did not have enough people to supply such audiences. Therefore revenues were down, and costs (which included the costs of transport for the actors, their costumes and props) were up. Many theatre companies went broke by doing it. Hamlet sums this up by saying "Their residence, both in
reputation and profit, was better both ways". Rosencrantz says that it is because of the new innovation which is stealing their city audiences. Which innovation? Companies of child actors, says Rosencrantz, "an eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapp'd for't. These are now the fashion." Shakespeare was alluding to the companies of child actors who were very popular around the turn of the century, especially the Children of the Chapel and the Children of St. Paul's

Answer 2

Their tenure there has ended and it was their time to move on.