An ITO provides consultation on itinerary planning and product selection, and coordinates the reservation, confirmation and payment of travel arrangements.
They do this on behalf of their clients by working with overseas travel companies and with Australian tourism products. They bring the components of accommodation, tours, transport and meals together to create an itinerary. Inbound tour operators put together different tourism products to create packages to suit the needs of different inbound markets. These include:. Fully independent traveller FIT This individual traveller buys from a wholesale brochure or buys a specially tailored itinerary.
Group inclusive tour GIT Group travellers also buy from a wholesaler's brochure or have a specially tailored itinerary created to suit their needs. Incentive traveller Many businesses reward performance by providing travel rewards to employees as incentives. These travel arrangements usually require a tailor-made product which is at the top-end of the market.
Convention traveller Conventions involve the movement of large numbers of people, and inbound operators can develop pre and post convention tours. To explain it simply, there are two ways of reaching potential customers: DIRECTLY - You can target visitors directly through advertising, brochure distribution, websites, social media, client referrals and so on. Operators rarely deal directly with a retail travel agent; instead, they go through a tour wholesaler or an inbound tour operator. Local visitor centres can also be considered as retail agents.
Wholesalers are able to achieve lower prices because of the volume of business and exposure they generate. More precise tour operators are primarily responsible for delivering and performing the services specified in a given package tour. They can provide these services themselves as some have their own cars and coaches, hotels, and other travel-related services or can obtain these from the other suppliers. That is why they are called manufacturers of tourism products.
Tour operators are sometimes called wholesalers but this is partially true because a wholesaler buys goods and services in bulk at his own account to prepare a tour package and then retails it through the travel agencies or directly to clients. Tour operators generally offer a variety of package tours to cater to the needs of different kinds of travelers. Today, tour operators have become highly competitive.
They endeavor to achieve a high volume of turnover, and maximum International and domestic market share by effectively operating.
Tour operators are basically categorized into four types. These are categories on the basis of their nature of the business and its operations. These are also known as incoming tour operators. Incidentally, the inbound traffic to the country for the last two decades has been decreasing. Essentially the tour operators need to adopt innovative marketing strategies and should introduce a special interest tour to cater the special needs of Japanese, Americans, French and British people.
Tour operator who promote tours for foreign destinations, maybe business tour or leisure tour is called outbound tour operators. For example a group of American tourists going to a trip of India and Thomas Cook handle arrangement in America like as ticket reservation, hotel booking etc. Domestic tour operators are those who assemble, combine tourist components into inclusive tours and sell it to the domestic travelers.
The domestic tour operators operate within the boundary of the home country and offer package tour to the travelers viz. Domestic inclusive tours or independent tours. These are commonly known as handling agencies and their main function is to organize tour arrangements for incoming tourists on the behalf of overseas operators. Let us take the case of India as a destination that — has a varied culture. When a tour operator himself promotes beach holidays, wildlife holidays, adventure tours, heritage tours at the different places, the difficulty arises.
It is the ground operator then who by handling the incoming travelers in the same season but at different places ensures that the entire operation is according to the package tours or agreements. Sometime when a handling agency is at a prominent tourist place i. Obviously, the tour operation companies do not have close contact with suppliers, governments, destinations and so on.
It leaves no choice with the companies but to appoint handling agencies at the destinations. The main reasons are:. Recognizing the very fact that the reputation, performance, and profitability of tour company in its own market largely depends on the efficiency and effectiveness of ground operators, it has because necessary for the company to consider various factors before the selection of a handling agency, they are:.
Over the years of functions and activities of the destination, companies have changed drastically to cope with the changing environment of the tourism industry. The following functions are performed by ground tours operators:. A Day in the Life. Ever wonder what a social media manager does all day? If so, check out the below: one social media manager tells Vault what she does during each minute of her day at work.
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