HND Hospitality, LCB Tours: Tour Operation Management Report

This report provides an overview of tour operation management, focusing on the creation and management of holiday packages. It begins with an introduction to the importance of tour operators in the travel and tourism industry, followed by a discussion of the various stages involved in developing a holiday package, including market research, planning, costing, and execution. The report also details the components of a holiday tour, such as fixed contracts and allocations, and provides a calculation of the selling price, including accommodation, transportation, and profit margins. Furthermore, it highlights the role of regulatory bodies like ABTA. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of effective tour operation management in ensuring customer satisfaction and successful holiday experiences. The provided solution is a report prepared by a student as part of their HND in Hospitality, submitted to Desklib for study and reference.

Tour Operation
Management

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Stages and timescales
 Component of holiday tour
 Calculation of selling price
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Tour operations are important for the travel and tourism because
they arrange holiday package and help in providing various
services which a customer wants in his holiday package. In tour
operation the tour operator play a important role by managing
tour package according the customer.

Stages and Timescales
There are various stages and
times for developing the
customers holiday package.
They are as follows:
 Market research
 Planning and scheduling
 Contracting

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 Costing the holiday
 Financial evaluation and pricing
 Advertisement
 Operation and execution

Component of holiday tour
There are different component
which are related to the
holiday package of
company. They are as
following:
 Fixed Contract
 Allocation
 Ad-Hoc

Calculation of selling price
LCB deal in travel and tourism services and take benefits of
positiveness of the market. The travel operators provide the
services to the customers and customers show positiveness and
the company earn profit.

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The company provide many package for holidays and some of
them are add discount and offer with them. For this, it is
important for customer to calculate actual cost of travel
including all other cost of activities incur during time of
journey.

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Accommodation cost: 96*21=2016
96/1.12= 85.7
85.7*21= 1800 (For One night)
1800*5= 9000 (For 5days)
Details' Price(in £)
Accommodation cost 9000
Transportation cost 11200
Charges of tour guide 945
Total cost 21145
Add: Profit margin @ 33% 6977.8
Sale price 28122.5

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Regulatory Bodies
There are various regulatory bodies in tourism industry. Lcb
follow ABTA( Association of British travel Agents). ABTA is
a British travel association which was founded in 1950. It
represent travel agents and tour operators.

Conclusion
In this above presentation, it is concluded that Tour operation
management play a good role in the tour industry. They make
essay travel for the customers so that the customer can make
its journey restful, peaceful and joyful.

References
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