Tour Operator

Tour Operator Within The UK



Tour Operator Within The UK

Introduction

Tour operator is a company or person that offers people to enjoy their vacations, holidays, reserving travel and arrangements of accommodation for people. Tour operators may charge price for flight and journey from airport to the hotel, hotel and all journey arrangement. in United Kingdom, tour operators are doing business that combine more than two services of travelling like flight, transport, accommodations, food, entertainment and the sightseeing through travelling agencies or directly to the final consumers in terms of package (Buhalis, 2001). There are number of UK tour operators who provide recreations services like water skiing, water rafting, fishing guides parasailing or sporting services as well in package such as pack trains. This paper discusses two main categories of tour operator within the UK; outgoing tour operators and incoming tour operators. This paper also evaluates these two different categories and gives examples of tour operators within each category.

Discuss

Outgoing Tour Operators

Outgoing tour operator provides the holiday's package from the United Kingdom to overseas. These operators own or buy high volumes of the travel agencies services that carry additional accommodation services. Then outgoing tour operators sells their packages through travel agencies or through internet or phone. The outbound tour operator continuously monitor the travel service demand within market of UK and focus on to identifying the travelling opportunities for products and service demand increase to those traveler who are going outside from their country (Buhalis, 2001).

Functions of Outgoing operators

Outbound operators usually create and market the travel products to the customer in United Kingdom that are normally long haul travelers seeking to a specific experience in destination of foreign country. Outgoing operators may also operate and design trips by themselves with the help of working partners in foreign destination or they may also choose trips that are already designed by the inbound operators and simply guide direction to their travelling customers. Outbound have an excellence skills to know about accurate knowledge of what their customer asked to them about time requirement of travelling (Kulendran & Wong, 2005).

Outbound tour operator specifically able to design the travelling products that help them to meet needs. Past study indicates that majority of outbound operators have completely focused on the arrangement of group travelling but they are also offering travelling packages to the independent travelers (Higgins, 1996). Outbound operators are usually provide different tips relate with safety and security and also focus on small number of special travelling segments. He may leave the mass market arrangement for the travelling agencies.

Busabout

Busabout is the UK based travelers which exclusively designed for the backpackers and for the independent traveler which offering tip top network of budget Europe and covering more than 30 destinations in more than 10 countries all around the world (George, 2006).. It is provide several benefits through sharing knowledge and experience of individuals.

Target Market or Clients

Travelers with having more specific interest that usually defined domestic market ...