HOW DOES A TRAVEL AGENCY ORGANIZE A TRIP?
Posted on 6/9/2010 at 2:28:19 PM
There are various activities that a travel agency has to perform in order to ensure that an intending traveler undertakes his proposed journey and enjoys a holiday of his choice.
Due to changing airfares and schedules, numerous available vacation packages and a vast amount of travel information, travel planning takes time and is sometimes annoying. To find out the many travel options, tourists and business people often turn to travel agents, who review their needs and help them make the best possible travel arrangements. Also, many major cruise lines, hotels, resorts, and specialty travel groups use travel agents to endorse travel packages to millions of people every year.
There are various steps involved from the time a traveler visits a travel agent to buy a ticket until he returns back home after visiting the place of his choice. Organized travel by a travel agency can be of 2 kinds, i.e.
1. Single client
2. Group client
In order to proceed with the journey, the following main elements (in both types of travel) need to be considered.
· Study of the journey.
· Estimate of expenditure.
· Execution of the journey.
· Presentation of accounts.
Individual or ordinary trips:
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