Tour Operation Industry: New Trends and Strategies

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LO1:
Tour and travels is a major industry that has gained success in the recent history. The
scope for exploring the world and witnessing the scenic beauty makes the demand for tourism
industry high. A major part of the society is highly dependent on tourism industry and at the
same time, the tourism industries are taking measurable steps to introduce new trends and
developments in the industry. The study will discuss about the new trends that the countries are
taking up:
They are introducing adventures for seniors: the tourism industry is not limiting the
chance of enjoying the adventures only for the youth and middle aged. They are introducing the
adventure industry for the seniors too. This will provide motivation and enthusiasm to the seniors
who were not interested in travelling earlier. They will now find more interest in travelling.
However, there are risks that are directly related this trend. The senior’s are aged and such
adventures might not be well suited for them. There will be high risk for the seniors not being
able to tolerate the adventure risks and can be a life threatening risk.
The tourism industry has also introduced spa therapy and massage centre in the places
attracting more customers to those places. The spa industry is introducing domestic leisure
tourism from wider trends. The spa breaks and therapy in tourism are adding the interest to the
health conscious generation. The tourists get attracted to such special offerings given to the
tourists. There are few places that have no such scenic beauty or centre of attraction but their spa
therapy has attracted a huge population from all over the earth(Wilks, Stephen and Moore 2013).
This therapy is a new trend and is attracting wide range of tourists from worldwide. However,
there are few risk related to such industry. There were incident were the heated spa led to few

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diseases that were life threats to the victims. These spa must be maintained by professionals else
there can be negative impacts of it.
The UK market is also arranging for family gatherings and leisure holidays with
packages that are enhancing the scope for tourists to explore the places and enjoy the scenic
beauty. The recent economic situation for many industry has gone down. Thus, connecting them
to travel industry to spend time with their families. The changes in demographic structure have
enhanced the chances for tourism industry. However, they have imposed a threat to the economy,
the new hotels and technologies that are coming up to the industry can be a serious threat to the
country. The reason for the threat is the technology advancement has helped to create a better
place for tourism industry and at the same time it imposes serious threat to the industry(Brouder
and Eriksson 2013). The technologies are used to drag the information’s about the tourist and
their personal details that can be a serious threat to the tourists and the hosts. These industries are
facing major issues for cyber hack and cyber breach that is causing a huge damage to the
industry.
LO2:
The tour packages that are made depends on many factors including time, money, place
of attraction, safety and popularity. It includes variety of services merged together to make a
single combines trip. Generally they include transport, accommodation and meal(Konovalova
and Vidishcheva 2013). It also includes the provision of tour guides the mentioned tour package
here include the heritage place Canterbury, a beach White park Grey and a mountain Northern
Ireland. The package will be made with consideration of the following issues:
The stages that are included while deciding a package tour are: