Current Trends in Tour Operation Management - Report
17 Pages5141 Words86 Views
Added on 2020-01-28
Current Trends in Tour Operation Management - Report
Added on 2020-01-28
ShareRelated Documents
Tour Operation Management
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................1Task 1...............................................................................................................................................11.1 Analysis the effects of the current and recent trends and developments of the touroperator’s industry.......................................................................................................................1Task 2...............................................................................................................................................32.1 Assess the timescales involved in developing this holiday...................................................32.2 Evaluate the suitability of different methods of contracting for different components forthe holiday and different types of tour operator..........................................................................52.3 Calculation of selling price of a holiday from given information.........................................6Task 3...............................................................................................................................................73.1Evaluates the planning decisions taken for the design of the brochure..................................73.2 Access the suitability of alternatives to a traditional brochure for different types of touroperators......................................................................................................................................83.3 Suitability of the different methods of distribution used to sell a holiday for different typesof tour operator and recommend the most appropriate for tour package....................................9TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................104.1 Strategic decisions made by different type of tour operators..............................................104.2 Tactical decisions that has to be taken in different situations.............................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12references.......................................................................................................................................13
INTRODUCTIONTour operation management plays a vital role for enhancing tourisms across the world.It acts as a link between tour and tour components for arranging a holiday package. They areresponsible for whole travel starts from airports till ends of the travel, includes food,accommodations, services for the tourist (Mehmetoglu and Norman, 2013). It advertise itselfthrough internet, brochures, or by making contracts with different airlines, other suppliers anditineraries. The present report focus on analyzing the effects of current and recent trends, stagesinvolved in creating a tour package, evaluation of suitability of different methods of distributionused to sell a holiday, strategic decision made by different tour operators. In order to achieve theobjective of the report Thomson Company and Its tourism services have been evaluated. Theheadquarters of Thomson UK are in Luton, England. It was founded in 1965, 51 years ago.Thomson is subsidiary of TUI group, arrange charter and scheduled passenger’s airlines, hotelsand resorts. TASK 11.1 Analysis the effects of the current and recent trends and developments of the tour operator’s industryTour operators of Thomson Company are responsible for arranging, preparing holidays, whetherit can a holiday or historical tour. They generally follow the current trends, popularity,destinations as per the guild lines of the company and organize the travel with allaccommodations (Xiang and Gretzel, 2010). There are different kinds of operators:-Domestic tour operators:- Domestic tour operators organize tours for the resident livingin the same country and also traveling within own country. It could be national parktours, Alaska tours or many more. Outbound tour operators:-Outbound tour operators arrange tour for resident living inone country and planning to travel in another country (Sivesan, 2012). Recently mostpopular destination in Europe, but its fully depends upon the choice of the passengerwhere he or she wants to go. Tour operator arrange all the facilities starts till endsexcluding shopping and all.Inbound tour operators:-Inbound tour operators arrange travel for nonresident persontraveling to other country. This kind of tours called International tours, where language is1| P a g e
End of preview
Want to access all the pages? Upload your documents or become a member.
Related Documents
Tour Operator Industry Assignmentlg...
|15
|3494
|41
Analysis : Tour Operator’s Industrylg...
|16
|5362
|211
Tour Operations travel and tourism Assignmentlg...
|16
|5710
|163
Tour Operation Management Assignment : Lcb tourslg...
|13
|3634
|356
Understanding Tour Operators - Thomson Holidaylg...
|16
|5648
|140
Tour Operations Management Report of Thomas Cooklg...
|17
|5040
|33