“Opening a Travel Agency in Nagpur”
Submitted to:
School Of Continuing Education
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University,
Dnyangangotri near Gangapur dam, Nashik-422222, Maharashtra.
Submitted by:
Mr. Vijaykumar Patle
B.H.T.M 3rd Year
PRN: 2010017002810717
Guided by:
Mrs. Neha Barde
M.Sc(HTM) ,B.Tech HMCT,PG(IRPM)
LECTURER:
G. H. Raisoni College of Hospitality Management, Nagpur
INDEX
1. Title
2. Introduction
3. Review Of Literature
4. Aim & Objectives
5. Hypothesis
6. Research Methodology
7. Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides tourism related services to the public on behalf of suppliers such as airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, and package tours . In addition to dealing with ordinary tourists most travel agencies have a separate department devoted to making travel arrangements for business travelers and some travel agencies specialize in commercial and business travel only. There are also travel agencies that serve as general sales agents for foreign travel companies, allowing them to have offices in countries other than where their headquarters are located.
The British company Cox & Kings is sometimes said to be the oldest travel agency in the world, but this rests upon the services that the original bank, established in 1758, supplied to its wealthy clients. The modern travel agency first appeared in the second half of the 19th century. Thomas Cook, in addition to developing the package tour, established a chain of agencies in the last quarter of the 19th century, in association with the Midland Railway. They not only sold their own tours to the public, but in addition, represented other tour companies. Other British pioneer travel agencies were Dean & Dawson, the Polytechnic Touring Association and the Co-operative Wholesale Society. The oldest travel agency in North America is