tour package notes.pdf

TOUR PACKAGES Tour Any form of travel from place to palce with multiple features trhat can be packaged and sold as a single unit. The history of modern tours can be traced to the 1840's and a British individual named Thomas Cook. Cook is recognised as the first travel professional to organize a g...

TOUR PACKAGES Tour Any form of travel from place to palce with multiple features trhat can be packaged and sold as a single unit. The history of modern tours can be traced to the 1840's and a British individual named Thomas Cook. Cook is recognised as the first travel professional to organize a group of travelers for a tour. The first tour was a rail package in England. Over the course of several decades, Cook and his son led groups of British travelers throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Traveling in this form became so entrenched that to this day many Europeans will refer to touring as the "Cook's Tour".Thomas cook is known as the father of tourism. BASIC TYPES OF TOUR Travel proffessionals identify two basic types of tours. 1. Custom Designed Tours. 2. Pre Packaged Tours.. Pre-packaged tours can be further divided into three subtypes: independent, hosted and escorted. TOUR CUSTOM PRE DESIGNED PACKAGED INDEPEND HOST ESCORT ENT TOUR  Custom-Designed Tours Travelers who desire the highest degree of control over all of the elements of a tour will often select a custom-designed tour. Travel professionals create custom-designed tours, usually by working closely with the client, to accommodate all of the individual needs and requests a client makes with respect to tour elements. Some of these considerations include accommodations, transport, meals, entertainment and similar elements. Agents sometimes use a pre-packaged tour as a base and then adapt or change parts of the tour to match the needs of the client.They are also known as Tailor mad Packages.They are more expensive than Pre packaged tours. A custom-designed tour is commonly reformed to as an FIT which traditionally means For Individual Travel It has since been used in a variety of contest to refer to Flexible Independent Travel of Foreign Independent Tour But in reality, FIT covers both domestic and foreign tours. Conversely there is GIT for Group Inclusive Tour. papergrid papergrid Dale: I 1 Date: ; / / IJ papergrid papergrid D,110: / I u,,,,: I I - -  , I p aperg rid I, /: Date : I I \ i ~ ; ~-- -:= - = ~ \ ;· 1 W' /.- a C/teof. 92/ec ~ ·, fu,1~,in£ J~mu.:J-le Ipl f':'J _ ----._ _J-J_h__ar.i~_aPF:°°(5"ole. -.- =·------ c\=---i Ce )Lne;iIlJ - --- - - --- ~ f'lcil.~ h ·Ii e. erX',1 i.e.. Ci!er,!:: wifh. cnec,r;J.!:j Lc.,.,cJ !./'j- b.:-1 :..';. --- ·'. - - - - - -- aru....-J l.n.1:2[)~1:. v.. _ c~ 1Lrr..n-,'-.J _ 1 '., i L-, o e:rmq _,s oa es.sen8al_o.ecou. se_1t:_1 s _Qn ~ 1 1 :J ' ~ ~