Types of Tours and Tour operator

New trends of tours.

1. By Rajat Jaiswal Types of Tours and Tour Operators By Rajat Jaiswal

2. Definition……. a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited by people. a planned visit to several places in a country or abroad made for a special purpose, such as one made by a politician, corporate, students, family, sports team, or group of performers.

3. First Flourished by the Roman Empire during the 1st century AD. After that in modern era, small tour’s has manifested by the European countries. Historical Background…

4. Types of Tours… Sightseeing Tours and ??? Land based.. Shore Excursion Tours and ??? Water based.. Adventure or Sporting Tours and ??? Air based.. Other Types of Tours and ??? Combining Tours and ???

5. New forms of Tours… Cycle Tours Culinary, food & wine tours Spa & luxury tours Cultural and thematic tours (heritage walk) Disaster site tours LGBT (sex) tours Space Tours Slum tours or pro poor tours Exhibition tours

6. A travel agent specializing in package holidays. A tour operator controls, books and devises the whole trip. They create a package holiday by combining all elements such as hotel, airport transfers, activities, restaurants, and tours. Tour Operator

7. Historical Background…. The first packaged "holiday" tour (a group rail journey from Leicester to Loughborough, in July 1841) by the Thomas cook. Brownell Travel markets itself as the oldest tour operator in the United States, having arranged an archaeology-focused trip to Switzerland for 10 American travelers in 1887.

8. Types of Tour Operator… Inbound Tour Operator Tour  operators who deal and handle directly inbound foreign tourists, provide them various services on their arrival and departure such as transfer, accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, entertainment, currency, insurance services etc. are known as inbound tour operators.

9. Types of Tour Operator… Outbound Tour Operator These categories of operators are specialized in promoting and designing multi-national tours especially foreign countries. The outbound tour operator sells a package tour to an individual or a group of people of his own country to another country or a number of countries for a specific pre-decided period.

10. Types of Tour Operator… Domestic Tour Operator Generally, domestic tour operators operate within the boundary of home country and cater the diverse needs of individual and group travelers.

11. Types of Tour Operator… Ground Operator Ground operator is also referred to as, ‘reception operator’, ‘destination management companies’ and ‘handling agencies’ e.g. ground operators in the United States— ‘reception operator, ‘handling agencies’ in India and destination management companies in UK.

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