INBOUND TOUR OPERATOR
01. 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.
02. Formulate tour packages individually or in collaboration with foreign tour operators. The packages may be marketed directly or by means of the intermediaries.
03. They are the ‘image’ builders of a country as they convert all touristic resources of a nation into a saleable commodity.
04. Stic Travels, New Delhi (http://www.stictravel.com) handled several groups of tourists during the CWG. Established in 1973 by Subhash Goyal.
05. Stic Travels has a branch in Mumbai to promote various package tours to different nationals through a retail agent located in Europe.
06. Stic Travels has a branch in Mumbai to promote various package tours to different nationals through a retail agent located in Europe, the US, Japan, Australia, and the Middle East.
07. It has more than 40 offices centrally located at various destinations to provide all kinds of logistics to inbound clients, apart from travel holidays.
08. Another example- TSI Holidays.
OUTBOUND TOUR OPERATOR:
01. 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.
02. Arranges travel documents, transportation to a central point where the tour starts and contracts with inbound tour operators/ground operators to provide accommodation, transportation, local sightseeing, and other services as needed throughout the tour.
03. Example- Cox & Kings is claimed to be the oldest travel company in the world. The core competency of the company is outbound tourism that offers a wide array of package holidays to various continents under the banner of Duniya Dekho.
04. The flagship package tour is a group tour covering some of the world’s most delightful places in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, the Far-East, the Middle East, South Africa, and Mauritius.
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