- Hotels: this is serviced and the sort of people that stay here is people who are staying over night because they may be something the next day like a festival. An example of a hotel is Premier Inn. - B&B: This offers overnight accommodation and inclusive breakfast, but usually does not offer other meals. This is also serviced. An example of a B&B is Verdene Hotel. - Apartments: This may be used for holidays and it also can be self- catering. An example of an apartment is Rowan Estates. (Source: www.tripadvisor.co.uk,2015) Non-serviced- Villa, Campsites, Caravan Park.
- Waterparks: This is an attraction that families would visit for the day whilst you may be on holiday abroad, or even an domestic holiday. An example of a waterpark is Siam Park. (source: www.siampark.net,2015) - You also have attractions like beaches some of them are quite popular beaches like Cornwall and are very beautiful sight seeing beaches. - Seas like the Black sea - deserts -Clubs - Heritage like Edinburgh Castle and this more for inbound people to go to.
Travel Agents - Retail: An example of a retail travel agents is a high street agents, called Co-Operative travel. This is quite a popular travel agents because with it being on a high street more people visit it. More local people (Domestic) may use this travel agents if they live near it. A high street travel agents is normally on a street where there's quite a few shops. - Business travel agent: A business travel agent help organisations manage their business travel. Most business travel agents will provide a self booking tool, which allows bookers and travellers to book trips themselves, along with a more traditional service where people can book by phone or email. An example is American express. This would be a popular travel agents, and business people would use this. (Source: www.clicktravel.com,4/10/2015) - Call centre: Acall center agent is the person who handles incoming or outgoing customer calls for a business. An example is Eye for Travel. People who like to do it over the phone would use this. (Source: searchcrm.techtarget.com,4/10/2015) - Web based: This is an online travel agents and is more like an online booking resource. It is any website that you can go to make travel arrangements. An example is Expedia. This is a good web based agents and has all the information that you need. This is a popular website to look on and any traveller could go and use this. (Source: www.expedia.co.uk,4/10/2015)
Tourists boards - Local: Local means you might live in an area and you might live in that area of a travel agents for example, this means that your local to that area. For example an Domestic tourist from Manchester coming to London to visit friends in and go out to a music festival like We are FSTVL. They would use Londonist to find out more information about the event and what price the tickets are and where about it is. You can go on visit Britain and book your tickets if you are visiting somewhere within the UK. - National: National means you live far away somewhere either in a different country. For example an outbound tourist from the UK going to Ibiza for a holiday with friends they might also want to go to a festival what's happening there. For example a festival like Holi Garden Festival. They would use the Holi Garden Festival website to book the tickets and have a look at the information. If you are International you could use Visit England if you are coming to the UK.
-Plane: There are different airlines to choose from to travel to where your going like abroad. There is Thomas Cook, British Airways, Thomson, Easy-jet and Ryan Air. This provides food service and On Board duty Free service so that people have comfortable flight. This can be an outbound tourism for example Manchester to Spain. It can also be a Inbound tourism for example France to UK. it can also be a domestic tourism for example Northern Ireland to London. (Source: www.thomascook.com,2015) -Trains: There are different train companies like Virgin Trains, First Great Western trains and East mindlands trains. Some of them will have a bar and will have food service to make sure that you have a great journey. Sometimes inbound people travel on trains to get to places if its easier for them. Also a lot of domestic people travel by train to get to work, or going shopping for the day. (Sources: www.virgintrains.co.uk,2015) -Ferries: There are a few types of ferries that you can travel by. For an example there is Brittany Ferries, Eurotunnel, Condor Ferries and more. People go on ferries to either have a relaxing journey and they may find it easier to travel by or they may go on a ferry to go on a short holiday vacation. They have offers like ' Free wine day trip' which would be a great offer for elder people. They also offer food and drink service and also relaxing places to stay if your first class. This is like an outbound tourism because you are going on ferry that is taking you overseas. (Source: www.aferry.co.uk,2015) - Car: People will travel by car to get to destinations, for example if you are going on holiday from Manchester to Brighton it would be a domestic tourism. People travel by car to get to places like theme parks, or go for a trip out for the day.
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Travel Agencies- Thomas Cook - Thomson - Co-Operative Travel -AA Express Travel All these are different travel agents that you will find online, and even in high streets. (source: www.thomson.co.uk,2015) Tour Operator- A tour operator is a travel agent specializing in package holidays. They operate everything like Accommodation, Attractions, Transport and Ancilaries. Within the Travel and Tourism industry there are 4 main types of tour operators. These are Mass Market operators, Specialist Operators, Domestic Operators and Incoming Tour operators. - A Mass Market tour operator are companies such as Thomas Cook and Thomson who deal with any type of holiday and they are able to put together packages that suit the customers. A mass market tour operator also supplies their customers with accommodation, transfers, transport and extra services. An example of a traveller who may use this is an outbound traveller. - A Specialist operator are companies such as Cox and Kings. These type of tour operators are a lot more flexible for the customer. This is because these tour operators are able to cater and specialise to what the tourists interest are for example, someone wants to go on a cycling holiday, they can tell the operator what they want in their holiday and the operators can do there best to get it for their customers. A Inbound traveller would use this. An example of a religious tour operator would be Pax Travel. (Source: www.paxtravel.co.uk,2015) Association of Independent tour Operator: AITO is the Association for Independent Tour Operators and specialist holiday companies. AITO member companies, usually owner-managed, strive to create overseas holidays with high levels of professionalism and a shared concern for quality and personal service. (Source: www.sunvil.co.uk,2015)
Association of British Travel Agents: ABTA is the UK’s largest travel association, representing travel agents and tour operators that sell £32 billion of holidays and other travel arrangements each year. Our Offer of support, protection and expertise, means you can have confidence in ABTA; and a strong trust in their Members. (Source: abta.com,2015) Insurance- There are a range of extra levels of cover that you can add on to your travel insurance policy. An example of a travel insurance is Winter Sports. If you are doing winter sports, ensure you have full winter sports travel insurance to protect you. You have a look for more travel insurances on Travel supermarket. A type of traveller that would do this is someone who loves to do winter sports like snowboarding or skiing. Foreign Exchange- The exchange of one currency for another, or the conversion of one currency into another currency. An example who to go to for a foreign exchange is the Post Office. A type of traveller that will use this is someone who is going out of their country into another. For example Manchester to Austria. Car Hire- Car hire could be if your abroad and you might want to hire a car to go places in if things are too far. You can hire a car if you need to get to the airport. There are a few things that you can do when hiring a car. An example of a car hire is Holiday Autos.