In the 20th century, self-service travelling is famous around the international cities. Self-served tour can definitely be a good way of travel other than the package tour. When it comes to the package tour, most of its itineraries are general with a short period of time. According to a survey conducted by Independent Traveler’s World (cited in Travelmole 2002), the number of interviewees go travel through agents decline from 56% to 28% which shows the traditional travel style can no longer fulfill the needs of tourist. A study by research firm Mintel(cited in Holiday letting 2007), the market of independent holidays is predict to increase 45% which reveals the self-served tour had become a trendy vocation mode among cosmopolitan cities because of its characteristics including, budget control, flexibility and experience. Planning an itinerary is no longer a troublesome thing.
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As the well-developed international networks, not only benefit travelers in time saving, also save the cost in travel. Easen (2004) points out that it is easy to book the air ticket online and check-in through kiosk. Independent traveler can choose different modes of transportation with lower cost such as budget airline and rail way. For instance, the rail pass is the ticket which serves unlimited times of travel on certain types of rail system like Japan Rail Pass and Britain Rail pass. Usually, its price for tourist is cheaper than the price for local resident about 10%. Thus, tourist can have a well budget control over the itinerary.
Besides, tourist can also save their cost in accommodation by selecting to live in host families, guesthouses, the youth hotel or capsule hotel instead of the formal hotels. The guesthouses are very comm...
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Journal of Travel Research, January 2014; vol. 53, 1: pp. 12-25. first published on April 1, 2013
Moreover the company provides a frequent point-to-point service which allows them to avoid costs of services for connecting passengers, costs of baggage transfer and costs of transit passenger assistance.
This company provides accommodation facilities with hospitality for people who come from other areas but this is not a hotel service. This is called first unhotel hospitality product which enable guest to live like locally by experiencing luxury facilities. This concept has gone beyond the hotel service and it is called as vacation home. This great business concept was created in 2009 on the mind of Grey Marsh who is the CEO of this company. They are keeping their relationships with two parties to be success in their business and to make high profit in the market place. In here, they provide their service to typical high market home owners by giving the opportunity to let them out their home for people while the home is
The Portman hotel is one of the luxury hotels in the hotel industry. The size of the hotel is relatively small; it has only 348 rooms and 21 floors. The objective of this hotel is to bring Asian hospitality to the US. This hotel is different from other hotel because it offers the services of personal valet and also it had “ no rules for the guests”.
Because of many LCCs and Indian Railways in the market people usually go with an airline/train offering lowest price and considerably good services depending on the time that ...
Inbound logistics – Low cost, simple to use cost effective reservations system, ticketless travel, pre-assigned seating, paperless cockpits, search engine optimisation and BlueTurn; for minimising ground time.
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Many investments for infrastructure construction in the destination primarily designed for the business tourists (hotels, restaurants, transportation…) provide economic profits, and they can also be enjoyed by local residents and leisure tourists.
The Hotel industry has become very important in the past years due to immense traveling and growth of international business. Hotel industry not only plays an important role in the life of people but as well as the economy of the country. Development and advancement in the Hotel industry have rapidly been taking place and especially since the rapid change in technology, it is very important for hotels to be promptly keeping up to date. When the hotel industry is spoken of, there are many famous hotels but one hotel company that has been outstanding in growth and other aspects of business, like in Leadership, Teamwork (Employee turnover), Motivation (Customer retention and satisfaction, Goals and objectives, (changing the way hotel business has worked), and Change within the company; structurally inside and physically outside, adding elements, like entertainment, gaming, and outdoor activities, is the Hilton Hotel Company.
Overall, travel can change the spiritual as well as the physical existence of both visitors and host, therefore urban tourism refers to the consumption of city spectacles and cultural amenities by visitors. Also, it is important to point out that the tourist elements developed by most cities are portraying a product “the city” to promote it for consumers “visitors” in order of stimulating the urban economy.
Nowadays in the rea of globalization, according to the World Tourism Organization, “seven hundred million people travelled abroad in 2003”, and the number is estimated to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. (International Labour Organization, 2005). Tourism is spreading in unusual places. A lot of people want to be in the midst of adventure. It is a vital source of revenues for the GDP of many countries. I partially agree that tourism hugely benefits the local community. This essay will discuss some of the economic, social and environment effect of tourism on the host community.
In this research, tourist will have an idea on how they can improve their experience at a destination, the most recent travel guides that can be extremely valuable to them when voyaging and a few recommendations on how these versatile travel guides can help them further in their travel.
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 top leading hotel bees are the Hilton, Choice Hotels, the Best Western, Accor and the Marriott. They all strive to offer luxurious, accommodating environments, which puts a struggle on the economy. Due to the various splurges and lavish venue spaces required, an increase in real asset prices has been the result. Intense capital has been the solution for many of the hotel chains, to be able to acquire the necessary properties.
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