BTEC HND Tour Operations Management: Effects Analysis

This report examines the tour operations management, focusing on the effects of current trends and developments within the industry, particularly in the United Kingdom. It begins with an introduction to different types of tour operators, including inbound, outbound, domestic, and specialist operators, highlighting their roles and market segments. The report then delves into the current trends, such as the rise of specialist operators, the growth of outbound tourism, the increasing demand for customized holiday packages, and the impact of environmental awareness. The analysis also covers market competition, integration strategies, and the influence of legal bodies. The report concludes by summarizing the key aspects of the tour operator industry and providing insights into the future of tour operations, emphasizing the importance of adapting to changing market dynamics and customer preferences.

Tour Operations Management
(Effects of current, recent trends and developments on the tour operator’s industry)
Introduction
In following poster, effect of recent trends and developments on
tour operator’s industry especially in United Kingdom will be
discussed. As a lot of people make their holidays to several
places in world, this leads to more complication for tour
companies
Different kind of tour operators are explained as followings:
This type of person travels form origin country to another nation to promoter his tourism business among
customers. It encourages to foreign or international travel in which he gives another country trip to his own
country people to make agreements in which local accommodation and transportation are provided as per holiday
package. Today this type of tour operator is increasing as people travel across the world. As United Kingdom is
one of most beautiful country to visit, there are lots of domestic tour operators who help in organizing trip to local
people. Small domestic travel companies offer attractive packages by niche marketing in which they target a
particular group of consumers. These types of tour operator have huge potential to grow in travel and tourism
sector. They deal with foreigner clients in country and provide them accommodation, sightseeing, insurance,
currency, entertainment and transportation. They promote their selling through intermediators. These types of
tour operators deal in particular field of tourism sector. Some of specialist fields are wildlife, safaris, family
destination, cycling and activities in which operator are specialized. Although they have less variety and scope of
business but high profit from target visitors. They promote and sell holiday package to consumers in local
tourism market. There is no intermediator and no commission.
Types of tour operators
Tour operator is a person or organization which supplies a
travelling package to consumers to different place in local, or
international destinations. Operation management in tourism
sector is process in which all elements of holiday package are
planned, directed and controlled so that there will be no difficulty
for consumers as well as tour operator agencies like Thomas
cook. To provide customized package to tourist, company have to
be up to date and latest trend in market. As this a changing sector,
firm or agency must concentrate on guest so that it can gain
maximum market share by customer satisfaction.
Current trends and development of tour operation industry
Following aspects help in understanding current trends in tour operation industry.
Today, tour operator industry is changing its scenario in term of company’s business and their market share.
Specialist tour operator has minor part and outbound operators are growing in more rapid rate. Natural
destination has more passengers while adventurous place has less visitors but high profit margin in United
Kingdom. Today, European tour operators are expanding their business at international level by promoting
in foreign countries. There are many agreements and cross culture events which are increasing number of
international tourists. As there are huge number of tour operators, they compete with each other and attract
visitors by customized holiday package. For example, some tout agencies offer exclusive packages for elite
class. On other hand, some operators offer natural place holiday packages to visitors at reasonable price to
capture maximum market share in tourism industry. Mass market tourism to customization. In current time,
cruise is in more demand by visitors than land destinations, it has increased scope of cruise tour market. As
there is increasing number of visitors and tourism industry, it might harm environment. So today, many
awareness programmers are conducted to protect environment. There are different legal bodies which
regulate tour operation sector in United Kingdom. These help in keeping healthy atmosphere and
development of the sector in long term. Some of them are UK inbound and the UK Civil Aviation Authority
(CAA)
Conclusion
To understand this sector, some components have to be
described like market segments, competition among travel
companies, specific operation with each category and
vertical and horizontal integration in leading operations.
Definition