PART 4

• A tour operator manages vacations by contracting, booking, and packaging components like hotel, transportation, meals, guides, optional tours, and flights, often focusing on land-only aspects post- destination.
• Tour operator is an organization, firm or company who buys individual travel components, separately from their suppliers and combines them into a package tour, which is sold with their own price tag to the public directly or through middlemen, is called a Tour Operator.
• Tour operators are manufacturers of

  tourism products, responsible for delivering and performing services specified in package tours, either owning cars, coaches, hotels, or obtaining them from other suppliers.
• Travel Agents hold the role of selling and administering packages from various tour operators to their personal clients based on what they’re looking for and what package suits each client best.
• Travel agent is a person who has a full knowledge about tourists product

  ~ destinations, modes of travel, climate, accommodation and other areas

  of the service sector. He acts on the behalf of product providers/principles

  and in return get a commission.
• Technically, a travel agent is an owner or manager of an agency, but other

  employees are responsible for advising tourists and selling packages

  yours/individual components of travel products.
• A travel agent may be an individual /firm or corporation which is commonly known as a travel agency
• An agency means the office of a travel agent or organization where all travel goods and services are assembled and coordinated for the smooth conduct of travel agency business.
• Travel agency is one of the most important organizations in the tourism private sector which plays a significant and crucial role in the entire process of developing and promoting tourism in the country or at a destination.
• It is a travel agency which packages and processes all the attractions, accesses, amenities and ancillary services of a country and present them to tourists. That’s why travel agency is known as 'image builder' of a country