M1: Explain the importance of links and relationships within the retail travel environment. . Horizontal Integration • Why does it exist and why is it formed? -Company’s merging together. 1 company taking over another. Financial reasons etc. Happens when a company owns or controls other businesses at the same level of the distribution chain • How does Horizontal integration affect the organisations concerned? -Can be a risk. 1 company may lose identity. Job losses can occur. Staff may not like
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do you make your travel arrangements? Airline Travel agency Other (please specify) _________________________________________________________________ 5. Did you know that travel agencies do not charge the customer for their services? _____Yes _____No 6. Please rate the following qualities that would be most important to you in the selection of a travel agency:
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Introduction The conditions of the global travel agency industry have significantly changed over recent years‚ mainly because of the development of the new technologies‚ electronic commerce and the major changes in tourism consumer behaviour. Increasingly‚ people are booking their travel over the Internet‚ directly from the suppliers or on electronic retailer’s websites affecting traditional travel agencies on the high street. Further‚ the market starts to show signs of overload because of the
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Agency-Liability of Principal and Agent Agency-Liability of Principal and Agent Ipshita Sinha NUJS-PGDBL 2012 Sinha.ipshita@gmail.com Ipshita Sinha NUJS-PGDBL 2012 Sinha.ipshita@gmail.com A review of the general concept of Agency‚ with special focus on the liabilities involved between the parties. A review of the general concept of Agency‚ with special focus on the liabilities involved between the parties. The Law of Agency: General Concepts Agency
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strategic route to choose when developing a strategy‚ especially for smaller travel companies. Travel agencies and package tours For much of the past 50 years‚ many travellers have used independent travel agencies to book their tickets and accommodation for national and international travel. Such agencies have the relevant networks and contacts with the hotels‚ airlines‚ rail operators‚ car hire agencies and other companies engaged in providing travel services. They are knowledgeable in the complicated
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philosophy. The agency is now the largest advertising agency in the U.S. (based on U.S. billings) and 7th largest in the world‚ consisting of Leo Burnett Company Inc. and Leo Burnett Worldwide Inc.)‚ an international holding company‚ responsible for more than 25% of all advertising billings in Chicago ($2.4 in local billings out of $7.7 billion for the city). The agency conducts all of its U.S. business through its Chicago office. The agency is also the largest privately-held advertising agency in the U
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at the London ad agency Mather & Crowley‚ which sent David abroad to study American advertising techniques for one year. He returned from his year abroad with extensive knowledge about American advertising techniques. In 1948‚ after being out of advertising for ten years‚ Ogilvy started his own agency. His brother Francis financially assisted him. S. H. Benson Ltd.‚ another London shop‚ also invested $45‚000‚ but insisted that Ogilvy hire someone who knew how to run an agency. Ogilvy hired Anderson
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Wk1 DQs What is meant by an "agency cost" or "agency problem"? Do these interfere with shareholder wealth maximization? Why? What mechanisms minimize these costs/problems? Are executive compensation contracts effective in mitigating these costs/problems? Our textbook defines an agency problem as a “conflict between the goals of a firm’s owners and its managers” (Megginson & Smart‚ 2009). It then defines agency costs as dollar costs that arise because of this conflict. In the corporate structure
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increased efficiency (Follit‚ 2000). Indeed a plethora of multinational companies‚ such as Dell‚ Wal-Mart and Capital have all 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
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It is in JINXIU travel agency that I have my practice.There are six departments and I was in two departments: treatmemt department and ticket department. My job is receiving guests in the office and ordering plane ticket for costomers‚ and some times I also answered the phone‚ helping visitors understand traveling route of travel agency or taking tickets for them. Because tourism is a service industry‚ so I want to learn how to communicate with different People and learn some business about travel
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