Tour Operator Industry Assignment

TOUR OPERATORS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Recent trends and development in tour operation industry...................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
2.1 Stages and timescales in developing holidays......................................................................4
2.2 Different methods of contracting various components of holiday........................................5
2.3 Calculation of cost of components of packages and selling price........................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 evaluation of planning while designing brochure ................................................................7
3.2 Suitability of alternative traditional brochures .....................................................................8
3.3 Suitability of various methods of distribution.......................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
4.1 Strategic decision made by different tour operators...........................................................10
4.2 Tactical decision taken by tour operators in different situations........................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Travel and tourism industry of UK is the main sector that contributes well in the
economic development of the nation. It is the major industry that generates the highest revenues
and contribute in raising foreign currency in the nation. Present study is based on TUI which is
the main tour operators of the country (Filby, Stockin and Scarpaci, 2015). It organizes domestic,
international tours for the consumers. It offers attractive services to consumers in order to raise
their satisfaction level. Current assignment will discuss trends and development in the industry.
Furthermore, it will explain different methods of contracting the various components of holidays
In addition, study will describe non traditional methods of distribution that are used to sell
holiday packages for different types of tour operators.
TASK 1
1.1 Recent trends and development in tour operation industry
Tour operators are responsible to arrange travel for the consumers. They provide travelling and
accommodation facilities to travellers so that individual can enjoy their trip. It is essential for
the TUI that to look at the current trends and development in the travel industry so that it can
design its products in effective manner and can satisfy consumers as well.
There are many kinds of tour operators such as inbound, outbound, domestic etc.
 Inbound tour operators are the tour operators those who arrange travel for the person
those who are not the resident of the nation and want to travel to other country.
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 Outbound tour operators are another kind of operators those who arrange travel for the
people those who live in the country.
 Domestic operators arrange the travel facility for the people those who live in the
country and like to travel in the same nation.
Current trends and development in tour industry are as following:
Flexible booking options
It is considered as one of the major development and trends in the travel industry. In the
modern era people are able to book their tickets online. This option give them huge facilities
and save their time as well. They are not required to go to the stations in order to book their
tickets. They get option of reservation, cancellation etc.
Airline expansion
It is another recent development, now people have variety of choice regarding airline.
Expansion of airline has supports in reducing cost and increasing facilities in the airline. Now
all income class people can travel in flights and can enjoy their holidays.
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