Evaluating Tour Operations: Effects of Trends and Developments

This report provides an analysis of the tour operations industry, focusing on the effects of current and recent trends and developments. It begins by defining the role of a tour operator, which involves organizing and packaging attractive holiday offers, including elements like food, accommodation, and transport, catering to different budgets and needs. The report differentiates between traditional charter flight packages and scheduled flight packages and highlights the different types of tour operators, including mass market operators, specialist operators, domestic operators, and UK outbound operators. The report then examines how technological advancements, such as the rise of prosumers, have transformed the tourism sector. It also discusses the impact of inflation, particularly fluctuating exchange rates, and emphasizes the growing importance of environmental awareness and responsible tourism practices. The report underscores the need for sustainable tourism operations that minimize harm to the environment.

TOUR OPERATION
Evaluate effects of current and recent trends and developments on the tour
operations industry:
The work of a tour operator is to organize, prepare inclusive tour and offers
attractive packages to different tourists as per their budget and need. Usually, this
package involves two or three offers and elements that are provided at inclusive
sale price. These elements can be food, services, accommodation or transport.
There are two kind of package mostly available i.e. traditional charter flight and
scheduled flight. Tour operators are regarded as the builder of vacations as they
arrange all the required components for vacation. Different kinds of tour operator
are mentioned below:
 Mass market tour operator: These operators are famous for providing high
volumes of holiday, especially for coastal destinations. They put together packages
like transfer, travel and accommodation etc., they sale wide number of vacation
packages for clients and they are considered as best in tourism industry. Earlier
they sell short-haul sites package but in recent years they shift more toward long-
haul site package.
 Specialist operator: They are specialized in a specific kind of holidays, not
like mass market products. They offer vacations to a specific country or location.
They provide depth knowledge regarding the location or country for which they
are providing their services. These firms are gaining more popularity as most of
the people wish for appropriate experience rather than mass market.
 Domestic tour operators: These operators organize vacations within UK.
One famous company associated with it is WA shearling. Their another name is
resident operators. They are familiar with the food, culture and seasons of UK.
They plan destinations as per need of consumers
 UK outbound tour operators: They offer tourism for different countries.
Residents of UK are taken to visit other continents or countries. They provide
package to people of UK who wish to travel other nations.
Recent trends and developments
Advancement in technology: Due to technological advancement tourism sector is
transformed completely. This is due to rise of prosumers. Due to internet
interaction consumers actively participate in shaping the perfect holiday
destination. People in UK are not passive audience and chooses the perfect
package as per their requirement.
Rise and fall of inflation: Fluctuating rates of dollar creates problems for tourist.
Constant rates are required to maintain activities like tourism. During recent times
in UK, due to rise in price of dollar, people from other countries are reluctant in
visiting UK as they have to pay more money due to increased value of dollar.
Environmental awareness and responsible tourism: In today's scenario healthy and
responsible tourism is preferred. Those tourism operations are adopted which
doesn't harm nature in any way. In UK, it is given proper care that tourists are not
disrupting ecology and throwing wastage and garbage on coast sides and roads.