group led by a tour guide? Some people prefer to travel all by themselves. But i think the best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide. When i travel in a group led by a tour guide‚ i don’t have to worry about when‚ how long to travel‚ which places to go to. I also don’t have to worry about the local language and customs. The only thing i have to worry is enjoying myself. Firstly‚ i don’t have to worry about when or how long to travel. I only have to choose where i want to go and look
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www.palgrave-journals.com/rpm PRACTICE PAPERS Decision support in online travel retailing B. Venkateshwara Raoà and Barry C. Smith Received (in revised form): 7th November‚ 2005 à Research Group‚ Sabre Holdings‚ 3150 Sabre Drive‚ MD 8203 HDQ‚ Southlake‚ TX 76092‚ USA Tel: þ 1 682 605 1721; Fax: þ 1 682 605 7690; E-mail: beju.rao@sabre.com B. Venkateshwara Rao is a Senior Principal in Research Group at Sabre Holdings. He develops customer behaviour‚ pricing‚ marketing‚ planning‚ and deal evaluation
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STUDY The findings of the study will be presented in three categories: current travel arrangement process‚ advantages of online reservations and disadvantages of online reservations. Current Travel Arrangement Process Basic Black Corporation uses a combination of e-mails and telephone calls to make travel arrangements for its on site and regional branch employees. The procedure currently in place for travel arrangements is outlined in Figure 1. |Figure 1
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Disintermediation and Re-intermediation on travel agents Introduction This report will discuss about how travel agents market is influenced by disintermediation and re-intermediation and what is the impact on industry and travel agencies. The travel industry‚ is the substance in the sphere of information technology‚ is beyond any doubt a fascinating area in terms of the options given by Internet. One of the considerable increses in electronic market is travel bookings noted by Berstein and Awe‚ 1999
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BTEC National Extended Diploma: TRAVEL & TOURISM UNIT 10: Business travel operations Tutor: Owen Pugsley IV: Student Name: __________________ Overall Grade: Student Declaration: This is to certify that this is my own work and that all quotes are referenced and noted in the bibliography. Signed: ____________________ Date:__________ Internal Verification Signature Date IV Assignment IV Grading CONTENTS & SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS (Please circle grade achieved) Task Hand
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achieved tangible benefits by incorporating e-business into their business models (Zhu et al‚ 2004). Online and Offline Travel Agencies The travel industry has perhaps become one of the most successful proponents of e-business in recent years (Wang and Cheung‚ 2004) as Zellner (2002) purported that travellers are increasingly embracing the internet as the conduit for arranging their travel
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Porter’s Five Forces: Travel Agency : Industry Rivalry : Highly Fragmented Industry with Intense Rivalry Highly Fragmented Industry. Organized players would barely have 15-20% of the marketplace Most of organized players are present in metros & mini-metros Large disposable incomes in towns like Lucknow‚ Jaipur‚ Coimbatore etc. serviced by family run unorganized players Industry rivalry is intense but not cutthroat Rivalry Intense because of low switching costs‚ low levels of product differentiation
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Callem Moore This is to show how trends and factors currently effect the travel and tourism sector. Trends This trend is only due to the poor exchange rates‚ in 2009 the pound (GBP) was very weak against the Euro; the exchange rate was at 1.1 Euros to £1 and this was significant compared to the rates before at 1.5/1.4 to £1‚ this hindered peoples spending on attractions‚ eating establishments‚ hire cars‚ transport and hotels‚ these low exchange rates were affecting behaviour of tourists
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premise of this report is that TUI Travel PLC is one of the world’s leading leisure travel groups‚ operating in approximately one hundred and eighty countries all over the world and compromising over 220 brands. This means that they serve more than thirty million customers and that makes TUI Travel PLC a global player in the growing industry. They want to deliver a wide variety of leisure travel experiences. Three principal business sectors are important to TUI Travel PLC: Mainstream‚ Accommodation &
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must work with many different travel and tourism component industries‚ comply with laws and regulations‚ and deal with a variety of external influences and challenges. Unlike travel agents‚ who sell holidays and a range of other travel products‚ tour operators actually assemble the different parts of a holiday‚ i.e. the type of travel‚ accommodation‚ facilities‚ transfers‚ excursions and other services. If we consider that travel agents are the retail arm of the travel business‚ then tour operators
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