Semester 2
• TRTV 11819 Selling Destinations Caribbean, Latin America and South America
- Students learn the geographical knowledge, the general factual information, and the tourist attractions in Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America so that they will feel competent to promote and sell packaged or individual tours. Skills are developed in the analysis of clients' needs as they pertain to the selection of packaged tours and to the planning of individual foreign tour itineraries. Quality client service and value-added research for clients are emphasized.
• TRTV 10689 Travel Regulations, Travel Insurance and Law
- Students are introduced to the range of regulations that govern the travel industry.
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Topics include the importance of tourism to the Canadian economy, the role of tourist boards, emerging markets for the inbound tourism product, the role of receptive tour operators, tourism planning, tour product design and promotion. Inbound tourism is a rapidly growing segment of the travel industry. Traditionally, the industry concentrated on sending customers to foreign countries; students examine the potential for developing tourism in Canada from both international and domestic markets. Students have the opportunity to research, develop and promote a tourism product for domestic destinations. Using a variety of learning activities including destination field trips, case studies, and interactive lectures, students investigate inbound tourist markets and …show more content…
Students expand their GDS knowledge and skills to select and book accommodation and vehicle reservations. Scheduled airline, accommodation and vehicle rental websites are examined so that students learn the similarities and differences between Business to Business (B2B) and GDS booking channels. Topics include international airline terminology; tariffs and tariff rule interpretation; trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific full fare, Apex and excursion fares; the mileage system including higher intermediate points, circle-trip minimum, and differentials; the Queue system; command pricing; and the issuing of invoices and remarked itineraries. Using a hands-on approach, supplemented with interactive lectures, demonstrations and time-constrained exercise simulations students learn how to efficiently use the GDS as an effective information and booking industry
by Gordon Waitt. University of Wollongong, Australia. Tourism management Articles Vol. 17 No. 2. Pg.
The proposed brand is required to gain authorisation from Destination Marketing Association International to gain the competitive advantage while having more policies leading towards sustainable tourism. The challenges in this regard are also identified for addressed on their emergence. Thus, Quebec City is required to collaborate with DMAI for achieving best practice in marketing and communication of the brand (Papatheodorou, et al., 2010). DMAI possess authorisation program being developed for gaining specific measures of excellence in the domain of marketing while helping destinations to communicate with their community and possible tourists in effective and efficient ways. This authorisation program acts as a platform for official destination marketing organisations to ensure the achievement of recognised standards and quality performance in the aspects of destination marketing.
Various definitions of tourism exist. Tourism is defined by Macmillan Online Dictionary as the business of providing services for those people travelling for holidays. Tourism has experienced continued growth over the years and diversification and has become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world. For countries like Australia, it has become one of the major contributing sectors in the economy generating large proportions of the national income and at the same time increase employment opportunities. The future is still bright for the industry in the country with possible future growth in expansion and diversification. The industry however has both the pros and cons impacts to various ranges of environments (Tourism Research Australia).
To further understand how and why the fluctuation of exchange rate will affect travel agency, in this section, the report will apply those three economic principles mentioned above to the issue.
For the introduction, brief information regarding my purchase and the travel and tourism industry is presented. It was then followed by the explanation of the 2 chosen theories from two different chapters.
This is one of the critical forms of promotion in the early stages of the product life cycle when the owners of resorts, hotels, and other attractions try various modes of promotion to make people aware of the amenities and facilities which would make their holiday experience special and memorable. The promotion focuses on the key ideas and features of the tourism product or service which are the differentiators from the competitors. Ideally used when the product or service is launched in the market for a new destination or when a particular product is entering a new market.
According to the Department of Labour: Appendix 1: of the Health and Safety in employment (Adventures Activities) Regulations 2011 – Guidance for Operators: That to be covered by the regulations, an activity must meet certain criteria as defined within. As you will find that Waitomo Adventures fits into these regulations.
Tourists are more dependable on website to get the information and overview of destination. Therefore one of the website of bay of island is www.tourism.net.nz, which gives complete information. In this assignment, we will mainly discuss about marketing mix, customer wants, creating value for the customer, destination location and tangible experience from tourism marketing perspective.
Travel Today will express through brochures, pictures and promotional material through the media the quality of the vacation packages offered. The clientele being targeted are individuals looking for an exceptional and exciting one-of-a-kind vacation experience one filled with luxuries and top notch service. Travel Today listens to the traveler in order to custom tailor your travel requirements to fit your needs.
...ucational Tourism: Understanding the Concept, Recognising the Value. [online] Available at: http://www.insights.org.uk/articleitem.aspx?title=Educational%20Tourism:%20Understanding%20the%20Concept,%20Recognising%20the%20Value [Accessed: 16 Mar 2012].
1.2 Problem Formulation In the problem formulation part of my report I would describe the overall situation of the U.K Tourism industry. The service concept of “Simply Travel” will give us information about the services provided by the company. I will find out about the customers, competitors of the company. I will find out what political, economical, social and technological factors affecting the company and its demand situation.
The economy can be clearly identified as the most beneficial aspect of tourism. “According to recent statistics, tourism provides about 10% of the world’s income and employs almost one tenth of the world’s workforce” (Mirbabayev, 2007). In Australia alone, Tourism contributed $87.3 billion in 2012, and employed 908,434 (7.9%) people (Kookana & Duc Pham, 2013). Tourism is “one of the most profitable and rapidly developing industries in the world” (Popushoi, 2004). Every year the number of tourists increase dramatically and consequently the revenues from tourism will increase substantially.
Tour operators are companies that produce travel products to the industry by using travel products and services of other companies and businesses and make a package with all that products and services. And everything is prepared before the journey is organized, so the price for everything is known also before the journey before tours are publicized and booked, tour managers are involved with planning tour schedules designing flexible tour packages to meet the needs of different clients. They organize all the functions that needs a package to be integrated, for example means of transport and reservation in hotels, flights and various events etc. Tour operator’s business provides a range of services, which are ready to be sold as a whole packages by travel agencies or tour operator’s own workplace to big or small groups of tourists or also to one or two people. So tour operator is like a link in a chain between companies that provide services to the tourists and the final customers. Also they provide to customers with advice about where to travel as well as the best means of reaching such destinations. If customers already know where they want to travel to, tour operators may suggest an escorted tour or can help to devise a complex perfect journey, which will allows -arrangements for holidaymakers run as smoothly and enjoyably as possible from beginning to end, as well as providing them with
What do the letters PESTEL stand for? Can you identify any links between some of these
Tourism is affected by the stakeholders with whom the destinations are established or the areas that are attempting to attract tourists. The customer stakeholder needs to seek out destinations and packages that appeal to their desires than accepting predetermined vacation packages. The stakeholder’s in the tourism industry need to work together to avoid miscommunication and enhance packages that appeal to clients requests. All the