Effects of Current Trends on Tour Operators Industry

Tour Operations
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Analyse the effects of current and recent trends and developments on the tour operators
industry........................................................................................................................................1
Recent trends of tour operators: .................................................................................................2
Define reasons for these changes as well as their effects on tour operators...............................2
Evaluation of strategic decision making.....................................................................................3
Provides clear explanations for the reasons for different decisions of selected tour operators. .5
In-depth understanding of strategic management of tour operators............................................5
Comparison of different tactical decisions..................................................................................5
Comparisons analyse the reasons for these decisions.................................................................6
Comparison of strategic and tactical decision making................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Tour operator is considered as a company which are mainly concern for providing travel
facilities to the people. In the present scenario, travel and tourism industry in the UK considered
as one of the fastest growing industry as it generates higher income within the marketplace. In
order to understand the whole tourism industry the taken organisation is TUI which was formed
by Thomson corporation of Canada and the headquarters of this company is situated in UK and
London. The current study will analyse the current trends and also assess the time scale which is
involving in creating holiday packages. It will also identifies different methods of contracting for
several components of holiday along with the evaluation of different methods of distribution
which have adopted to sell a holiday for various tour operators.
TASK 1
Analyse the effects of current and recent trends and developments on the tour operators industry.
Tour operators: A tour operator is considered as a business which is comprising two or
more than two travel services. In other worlds, it refers to those who are giving their focus on
controlling, booking and devising whole trip (Redjem and Marcon, 2016). These operators are
developing a package by considering various elements like hotel, activities, transfer, restaurants,
airport and many others. In the modern era, tourism industry has covered a huge marketplace
which can be seen by presence of travel industries or operators. All the travel industries has
different structure and operation which can be understand by given two organisational examples
in which one is TUI and other is Casas Cantabricas which is a small outbound company as it
providing their services to travel from one to another country.
Basis TUI Casas Cantabricas
Activities It is listed in one of the largest
company as it is operating
activities in providing a range
of services like hotels &
resorts, cruises, destination
experience, airline and tour
operators.
This industry is operating their
activities in rendering curated
collection of tailor made and
self driving touring holidays in
Portugal and Spain.and also
offer in selected villas in
northern Spain.

Structure Due to the large size of the
company they have adopted
Hierarchical structure in their
organisation as it allows free
flow of ideas and strategies
within workplace and also it
makes easy for employees to
contact with their top
authorities (Espino-Rodríguez
and Gil-Padilla, 2015).
Due to the small size and
limited number of employees
they have adopted flat
structure in their organisation
as in this all employees are
responsible for report to the
single authority.
Recent trends of tour operators:
As in the present world, travel and tourism sector is a fast growing and vast industry as it
is able to attract huge number of clients. This also has huge scope in UK as London is one of the
most attractive destination which makes it essential for the TUI to consider all the current trends
as it can impact on their performance in a great manner. Here are describing some of the current
trends:
Internet: It is the biggest source to attract a range of customers as it allows diverse
customers to search different destination of holidays. Also, It help the organisation like TUI to
update all the essential information about their packages online and do the global business so that
they can attract several customers towards their services.
Customised packages: As in this busy schedule, each customers wants to book their
holidays as per their required. In this case, it is necessary for the manager of TUI to provide
various facilities or services to their customers as per their choice and preferences so that higher
satisfaction of them can be attained (McNicol, 2016).
Define reasons for these changes as well as their effects on tour operators
In the present economy, innovation or development has taken a huge place due to which
frequently changes in tourism industry are occurring because of the various reasons like
demographics, technological development, shifting social, religious factors and many others.
These all have huge impact on the performance of the organisation in both positive and negative