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Report on Trends and Development in Tour Operation Management

Investigate the tour operators industry, including types of operators, products and services, industry scale, and management decision-making skills.

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Report on Trends and Development in Tour Operation Management

Investigate the tour operators industry, including types of operators, products and services, industry scale, and management decision-making skills.

   Added on 2020-06-06

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TOUR OPERATIONMANAGEMENT
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1Covered in poster....................................................................................................................1TASK 2............................................................................................................................................12.1 Stages and timescales involved in developing holidays...................................................12.2 Suitability of different methods of contracting for different components of the holiday22.3 Calculation of selling price of a holiday...........................................................................4TASK 3............................................................................................................................................43.1 Planning decisions taken for the design of brochure........................................................43.2 Suitability of alternatives to a traditional brochure..........................................................63.3 Suitability of different methods of distribution used to sell a holiday package...............7TASK 4............................................................................................................................................94.1 Strategic decisions made by different types of tour operator...........................................94.2 Compare decisions that could be taken by a selected tour operator.................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTIONTour operation management can simply be defined as those operations that are used bytour operators in order to provide holidays accommodation and services to users. A touroperators gathers tour and travel components so that they can make a package holiday (Robinsonand et.al., 2016). They effectively advertise and produce brochures in order to promote theirservices, products or holiday packages. They also provide travellers luxurious facilities such asfine dining, travelling and many additional services . These are all facilities and services thatmakes their holiday more enjoyable and entertaining. This is an important constituent in thetourism industry. There are several functions of tour operators. For example they work as agents,promoters or market the image of the destinations. They not only support the tour packages,they also promote the destinations who are responsible of creating the broad path and packagesbased on innovation. The present report which is based on the tour operation management. Forexample 3-Star WestCord Art hotel. In this project, effects of current or recent trends anddevelopment on the tour operators industries are explained. The stages and timescales that istaken in developing any holidays are also described here.TASK 1Covered in posterTASK 22.1 Stages and timescales involved in developing holidaysMaking or developing plan of holidays is not an easy process. It consumes a lot of time asit is a lengthy process. Sometimes it takes a long period like to plan a overall holiday package.For example3-Star WestCord Art hotel has stage such as:Initial Research: In order to create any holiday, it is very essential for understanding thestructure of market of the tourist destinations, competitors who are offering same goodsor services, preferences of consumers, etc. This all requires a lot of research as it is veryimportant to interpret what goods will be successful and what should be there prices(Kauppi and et. al., 2013). Tour Itinerary creation: After complete research, the next stage is to develop anaccurate itinerary that involves the decision-making of several things like what should be1
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