Flight Centre Market Research Report

Flight Centre: Portfolio Analysis of its Competitiveness and Market Opportunities

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Student Name: WEI ZHOU
Student Number: 43410295
Lecturer Name: Aaron Tkaczynski
Course Name: Marketing&Distribution Research Project
Course Code: Tour 7032
Date: 15/09/2014

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Executive Summary!
Flight Centre (UK) is the British arm of Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), it’s the third largest national market for FCTG. While the UK travel market have matured, there exists different small market segments which still possess potential for growth. The competitive stance analysis of Flight Centre (UK) indicates that the industry still has growing consumer demand.

While Flight Centre (UK) is much

smaller than the two dominant industry leaders – TUI Travel and Thomas Cook
Group, its parent company FCTG possess stronger finances, which enables Flight
Centre (UK) to consider fighting for a bigger market share. The core finding of this report indicates that there exists a huge opportunity in the online market for
Flight Centre (UK), these also exist smaller opportunities in niche markets like heritage tourism and high-end travel services.

The report after analysing the

findings, recommends more focused marketing into the online and heritage tourism segment of the market, as well as to consider the possibility of high-end travel services as a possible targeted market segment.

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Tour 7032 Marketing&Distribution Research Project Marketing Research Report 1

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Table of Contents!
Executive Summary ......................................................................................1
Background ...............................................................................................3
Managerial Issue .........................................................................................3
Research Objectives ....................................................................................4
Methodology

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