BTEC National Level 3 Travel and Tourism 2010 13 Unit 13: Tour Operations Unit 13 Tour Operations Unit 13 Overview 10 Credits Tour operators play a very important role in travel and tourism‚ by arranging the package holidays that are such an important feature of life in the 21st century. Tour operators are at the forefront of today’s travel and tourism sector‚ seeking out new destinations and holiday experiences to satisfy the ever-changing needs and expectations of travellers
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------------------------------------------------- Tourism and Travel Distribution: the Travel Agent’s Perspective By Dr Marion Bennett and Dr Dimitrios Buhalis‚ Centre for eTourism Research (CeTR)‚ School of Management‚ University of Surrey‚ Guildford Jan 2003 Summary The Internet has revolutionised the tourism industry and has generated a number of challenges and opportunities for all players. For travel agents‚ in particular‚ the Internet is changing the industry structure and consumer behaviour
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A Overview of Mainstream Leisure what leisure is Defining leisure can be a tricky task‚ what exactly is leisure? Haywood states that if a Random number of people where asked what the meaning of leisure is then their would be a large number of different answers. So leisure has different meanings for different people. He also states that some might think that leisure is Time left over after work or other duties or obligations ( free time ) Watching TV Taking part in sport activities
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1. The Travel Market can be segmented into 3 segments: Luxury travellers‚ Adventurers and Budget travellers. These segments are identified by demographics like age and income‚ psychological factors like personality‚ and benefits sought like needs and product features. Luxury travellers are usually older or middle-aged consumers who are already financially prosperous and look for relaxation and rejuvenation from their stressful positions. They can also be retirees. Luxury travellers will be willing
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The article “Why We Travel” by Pico Iyer talks about his opinion on why people travel to foreign places and what they expect to gain from their trips. He also mentions a few of his past experiences and his feelings and emotions based on them. Based on this article‚ we are able extract that traveling is not just the matter of going somewhere other than your home and coming back the same person. It is somehow a little more than that as it affects us in ways unexplainable. An interesting point brought
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Is time travel a possibility? According to Scientific research‚ time travel is more of an opinionated question. Some research proves that there are possibilities of time travel and others say that it is impossible. In my opinion‚ I think it is possible with right research and advanced technology for time travel to be possible. If time travel is invented‚ and someone did come back in time from the future‚ and change things without making themselves widely known as time travelers
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trip? Do you miss the high-end food you last tried? Travel‚ without doubt‚ has a lot of advantages that no one can afford to miss. But there’s more to travelling than just staying at the most expensive hotel and trying different kinds of delicacies. So‚ how does travel broaden the mind? First and foremost‚ let me clear up one common misconception. Travelling does not necessarily mean travelling abroad; it means travel as much as one can – travel to the next town‚ to the seaside resort‚ to the small
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BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Travel & Tourism Unit 1 Investigating the Travel and Tourism Sector Scenario 1 Task 1a There are three different types of tourism – domestic‚ inbound and outbound. Domestic tourism is all about traveling within the same country you live‚ for example‚ UK citizen traveling around London. Inbound tourism is when overseas tourists come to visit the UK. And an outbound tourism happens when UK residents going abroad and taking their holidays outside the UK. For example
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Gulliver’s travel was one of the famous satirist novels written in 1726 by the most famous satirist in all JOHNATHAN SWIFT.” before understanding the novel and the satire hidden in the novel‚ we can explain the satire as‚ “Satire is a technique employed by writer to expose and criticize the corruption and injustice of an individual and also in the society” Swift wrote a lot of satiric pieces such as “the tale of tub “which is the satire on corruption in religion and learning he also wrote political
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First Crusade Documents Summary Document A: Document A by August C. Krey is a descriptive summary of the First Crusade. In the First Crusade‚ the Franks used machines and tools to get into the city of Jerusalem and kill everyone inside. August C. Krey wrote this document from the Crusaders perspective. I know this because of: “there was blood covered up to our knees from the slaughter.” From this sentence‚ we can know that August C. Krey interviewed someone on the Crusaders side of the
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