New trends of tours.

2.  a journey for pleasure in which several different places are
visited by people.
 a planned visit to several places in
a country or abroad made for a special purpose, such as
one made by a politician, corporate, students, family,
sports team, or group of performers.

3. Historical Background…

4.  SightseeingTours and ??? Land based..
 Shore ExcursionTours and ??? Water based..
 Adventure or SportingTours and ??? Air based..
 OtherTypes ofTours and ???
 CombiningTours and ???

5. • CycleTours
• Culinary, food & wine tours
• Spa & luxury tours
• Cultural and thematic tours (heritage walk)
• Disaster site tours
• LGBT (sex) tours
• SpaceTours
• Slum tours or pro poor tours
•Exhibition tours

6. Tour Operator

7.  The first packaged "holiday" tour (a group rail
journey from Leicester to Loughborough, in
July 1841) by theThomas cook.
 Brownell Travel markets itself as the oldest
tour operator in the United States, having
arranged an archaeology-focused trip to
Switzerland for 10 American travelers in 1887.

8.  InboundTour Operator
 Tour operators who deal and handle directly
inbound foreign tourists, provide them
various services on their arrival and departure
such as transfer, accommodation,
transportation, sightseeing, entertainment,
currency, insurance services etc. are known as
inbound tour operators.

9.  OutboundTour Operator
 These categories of operators are specialized
in promoting and designing multi-national
tours especially foreign countries. The
outbound tour operator sells a package tour
to an individual or a group of people of his
own country to another country or a number
of countries for a specific pre-decided period.

10.  DomesticTour Operator
 Generally, domestic tour operators operate
within the boundary of home country and
cater the diverse needs of individual and
group travelers.

11.  Ground Operator
 Ground operator is also referred to as,
‘reception operator’, ‘destination
management companies’ and ‘handling
agencies’ e.g. ground operators in the United
States— ‘reception operator, ‘handling
agencies’ in India and destination
management companies in UK.

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