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Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Structure of Tourism Industry

Travel Industry








Distributors




Tour Operators

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Tour Distributors

 Usually includes business and leisure travel agents:
*some large and well-known
*some small and independent.




TOURSIM BOARDS AND OFFICES
*Promoting Britain to overseas customers (Visit Britain)
*Promoting regions of the UK to overseas and domestic customers( Visit Northumbria )
*Providing information to customers ( Tourist Information Centres)




Accommodation/Tour   Operators/Distributors


Providing the “nuts and bolts” of the industry:
 *hotels, villas, apartments, B&B, camping parks

 *packages of travel torus to popular locations


 *selling the travel product/service to individual and business consumers



REGULATOR BODIES 




 

*Consortium of Independent Tour Operators
*Federation of Tour Operators
 *People 1st ( skills, council for Tourism , Hospitality and Leisure )
 *Regional Development Agencies (RDAs)



PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS 


*DCMS

*VISIT BRITAIN
*REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
*FCO
*ENGLISH HERITGAE



OTHER INDUSTRY PLAYERS 




*The Tourism Alliance represents industry operations to the government

* Other firms in industry, such as insurance companies and car hire firms





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