A package tour is a prearranged tour that includes travel services like airfare, lodging, and activities arranged by a travel agent for a fixed price. It offers tourists a hassle-free way to visit a destination with all services arranged in one package. Standard package tours include travel arrangements like transportation and ground arrangements at the destination like accommodation, meals, transfers, tours and guides. Elements included typically are the mode of transportation, type of hotel room, and sometimes meals and internal transportation, while exclusions are not covered by the fixed price paid.

1. Package Tours

2. A package tour is a prearranged
tour, planned for an individual,
or a group, which can include all
the travel related services like
airfare, car rental, lodging, and
other activities.

3. It can be considered as a holiday or a tour for
which one pays at a fixed price that includes
travel, accommodation, meals, etc. arranged
by a travel agent.

4. Why a Package Tour??
The chief reason what necessitated the use of a
tour package made by the operators is the hassle
free dealings. If a person does not buy a tour
package and instead tries to buy Individual travel
services from different service providers, he will
land up paying more.

5. A tour package gives the tourist the ease of
visiting a destination with all the services in
one single packet so that the passenger does
not have to undergo the job of searching,
booking and confirming individual services
with the individual service providers.

6. Elements of a Package Tour
What is to be included in
a package tour depends
on various factors such as
the generating country,
target market,
destination, and the
various service providers.

7. A standard package tour has two
major components:
• Travel
arrangement
s
• Ground
Arrangemen
ts

8. At the destination, car hire services, boat
services and local transport / taxi
services are arranged as a part of travel
arrangements.

9. At the destination, the tourist would require
accommodation & meal arrangements, transfers,
excursions and sightseeing trips, tour guides, and
escorts. All these arrangements are called
Ground arrangements which are done mostly by
the ground operators on behalf of the arranging
tour operator.

10. A TOUR PACKAGE-
INDUSTRIAL INCLUSIONS

11. A tour package is generally made and sold
comprising of certain services as the inclusions
and there are few elements, which though
required by most of the tourists, are excluded
from the package and thus, these exclusions
are not a part of the total price which a
customer pays to the service providers.

12. GENERAL INCLUSIONS OF A
TOUR PACKAGE
• Travel Element: It is the mode of transport
used to reach the destination from the point of
origin.

13. Accommodation-The other important element
without which a tour package can not be made
is the accommodation that specifies the kind
of hotel and the room offered in the package
as per the occupancy i.e. a Single, double, twin
or a triple sharing.

14. • Meals:- The food element constitutes a
major part of the tour package which is
provided along with the hotel package
itself. Although the room packages can be
sold without meals also, most of the times
the passengers like to have only the
breakfast included in the package.
However, in some cases the dinner is also
included.

15. • Internal transportation-
The mode of transport
used by the passenger to
travel within or around
the destination for the
purposes of sightseeing,
excursions and the
transfers from one place
to the other is also
included in a tour
package most often than
not.

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