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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A travel agency is a retail business that sells travel related products and services to customers on behalf of suppliers such as airlines‚ car rentals‚ cruise lines‚ hotels‚ railways‚ sightseeing tours and package holidays that combine several products. 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
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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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2. Travel and Tourism industry: the structure and the three technology “revolutions” 2.1 Travel & Tourism industry in numbers and the main players: Travel & tourism industry is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the world; globally‚ in 2012‚ it generated $2 trillion in direct GDP1‚ which corresponded to 2.9% of the world GDP. Also in terms of employment‚ its importance is highly pronounced‚ with a total contribution2 of 8.7% of world employment‚ the travel & tourism industry
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2013 Travel industry Cauchies Christophe About the importance of the travel industry in the economy The travel industry is one of the biggest industries worldwide. Figure 1 shows the total –direct and indirect - contribution of the travel and tourism to the growth in each area of the world. Surprisingly more than 5% of the Asian growth is due to this industry. It represents 3% of the worldwide growth. Around 9% of the global GDP are – from one way or another – due to travel & tourism
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Travel and Tourism [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institution] Table of Contents The Travel and Tourism Sector Introduction The biggest and fastest growing industry in United Kingdom is the tourism industry. The common purpose of the industry is to provide goods and services to the tourists. However‚ defining tourism is not as simple as it seems to be. It is a complex industry. Tourism includes such activities of people that are carried out during travelling
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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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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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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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