A PowerPoint presentation on itineraries, their definition, various types, importance, characteristics, elements, what to do and what not to do, recommendations, and helpful resources.
- 1. Itinerary By, G S I VIKAS
- 2. History • A printed tour itinerary was first introduced by Thomas cook in 1856 when he started inclusive tour package.
- 3. Itinerary Meaning • An itinerary is a day to day plan of a journey. It includes all the activities and destinations that the tourist will engage in or visit during his or her journey. An itinerary is generally based on a client profile. • Itinerary shows the sequence of the various tour ingredients and provides essential information such as assembling point, departure point, days of departure, duration of a tour, legal requirements, features of a destinations, optional activities, and meal and it can also be called as a central point for the success of a tour company .
- 4. Tour Itinerary • A tour itinerary is a group of products and services presented as a unit and sold for one fixed price. Products and services may include accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, and meals. • Some tour itinerary may even include helicopter rides, theatre tickets, interpretive centre entrance passes, picnics, community events and hands-on learning experiences.
- 5. Significance of Tour Itinerary Significance of Tour Itinerary Flexibility Convenience Assurance Simplicity Compliance Control Cost Savings Employee Satisfaction
- 6. Significance of Tour Itinerary Cont. Flexibility: Because travelers can calculate the costs of itinerary changes with Online Ticket Exchange, they’re empowered to make informed decisions while experiencing the flexibility to change travel plans as they see fit – all without picking up the telephone. Convenience: With Hold Trips, travelers experience the convenience of shopping and reserving airline seats, hotel rooms and rental cars even before trip details are finalized. Assurance: Pre Trip Approval is added assurance for travelers that their making the right moves on behalf of the company – all facilitated online and automatically. Simplicity: Travelers can research costs and exchange tickets online with a few simple clicks, hold itineraries without driving fees and receive prompt pre-trip approval. This also brings simplicity to travel managers' day-to-day responsibilities by automating features that typically required travel agency intervention. Compliance: Because travelers are working within an online system backed by powerful rules engines, multiple checks and balances are automatically in place to ensure policy compliance. Control: Travel managers experience more control over program process with the ability to set and enforce policies online when it comes to exchanging, holding and approving travel itineraries. Cost Savings – More cost savings as more transactions are moved online Employee Satisfaction – Travelers are empowered to make or change travel plans as needed
- 7. Itineraries Are Prepared On The Basis Of Single or multiple destinations: To include only one destination or to include more than one destination in one itinerary. Special interest package: For example adventure package, cultural package, holiday package, etc. Tour package: An itinerary prepared for pleasure, relaxation. Travel package: An itinerary especially for travel. Outbound package: An itinerary prepared for domestic tourists to visit foreign countries. Inbound package: An itinerary prepared for foreigners to visit our country. Domestic tours: An itinerary prepared for local people to visit own country.
- 8. The Key Features of Tour Itinerary include Using all forms of local public transport where possible Using small scale locally owned accommodation and homestays available and using local Restaurants and markets for dining. Employing people who facilitate the company’s values to travellers and local communities, educating them in sustainable tourism practices. Employing local guides to aid travellers understanding of local culture and etiquette. Allowing travelers to experience, cultures at a grass roots level offering greater opportunity for cross-cultural understanding.
- 9. Components of a Tour Itinerary • Accommodation • Transportation • Transfers • Tour Guides • Entertainment Activities • Entrance Fees • Sightseeing Tours • Tour Escorts • Meals
- 10. Components of a Tour Itinerary • Accommodation • Transportation • Transfers
- 11. Components of a Tour Itinerary Cont. Tour Guides Entertainment Activities Entrance Fees
- 12. Components of a Tour Itinerary • Sightseeing Tours • Tour Escorts
- 13. Components of a Tour Itinerary Meals
- 14. Types of Itinerary • Hub and spoke/Star itinerary • loop/Circle tour Itinerary • Open jaw itinerary https://explorationjunkie.com/3-kinds-itineraries-choos e-trip/
- 15. Explanation • Hub and spoke/Star shaped itinerary: A travel routing design that uses a central destination as the departure and return point for day trips to outlying destinations and attractions. (Example: Bali Relaxed Discovery 10-Day Itinerary, Indonesia ) • Circle/ loop itinerary: Return back to where you started from (Example: Northern Ireland 2-Day Road Trip Itinerary) • Open jaw itinerary: You do not return to the destination from where the tour started (Example: Malay Peninsula Singapore to Bangkok 3-4 Week Itinerary)
- 16. Types of Tour Itinerary Based on client request • Brochure Itinerary • Client Itinerary • Escort Itinerary • Driver Itinerary • Independent tour-FIT (Foreign Independent/Individual Travel), DIT (Domestic Independent Travel) • GIT (Group Inclusive Tour) / charter • SIT (Special Interest Tour)
- 17. Brochure Itinerary Activities of the day Scheduled meals and the venues Accommodation and transportation Tour reservation and conditions • Tour price includes & excludes • Payment and deposit policies • Cancellations and refunds • Responsibility • Day with varied activities • Every activity • Time for departures • All-day attraction • Time for every activity on site • Time for departures • Multi-day tour • Major activities including scheduled meals • Time for arrivals and departures • Starting and end time for activities with fixed time Client Itinerary
- 18. Itinerary for Escort and Driver • Break the itinerary down into several parts with each part on one single page. • Important contacts’ name, address, numbers. Escort itinerary • Pick-up points, time • Drop-off points, time • Turn around points • Special routes • Parking areas Bus Driver itinerary
- 19. Independent Tours • Descendent of the custom made FIT (foreign independent travel) or DIT (Domestic independent travel) tour. • Foreign Independent Travel or Foreign Individual Travel (FIT): An international pre-paid, unescorted tour that includes several travel elements such as accommodations, rental cars and sightseeing. A FIT operator specializes in preparing FITs documents at the request of retail travel agents. FITs usually receive travel vouchers to present to on-site services as verification of pre-payment.
- 20. FIT FIT package includes 1)Air, Hotel, roundtrip transfers, Breakfast, travel vouchers (certain tours or visitors’ attractions) 2)likely to join other passengers and nationalities 1) Tour operator rents a plane capacity from 200 onwards 2) Total package that include air, hotel, and land components 3) Fly to popular destinations GIT, Charter Tour
- 21. Types of Tour Itinerary •A pre-design itinerary: • Consists of accommodation, transportation advertised and sold together by a vendor known as a tour operator • These itineraries include the flights, hotels, transportation, transfers to the airport / hotel, most meals and some sightseeing. • Not more than three nights are spent in each location visited. • They are usually fast-paced. •Flexible/Flexihol tour itinerary: • Flexihol/Flexible offers you tailor-made international holidays and travel packages with a wide range of sightseeing tours and experiences to suit your individual taste and budget. • Flexihol/Flexible Holidays include Romantic Getaways, customized holidays to Europe, Far East, Australia & New Zealand, Africa, Middle East and America. Customized holidays to exotic islands, rail Europe holidays and instant holidays for short-durations are also available. • Flexible itineraries are known by different names such as Flexihol, freedom, fusion holidays offered by different tour companies.
- 22. Types of Tour Itinerary Tailor Made tour Itinerary: A Tailor-made Tour means that a tour is designed specially for you, and meets every of your need. You can have your trip specially tailored to your heart's desire to gain a greater individual attention and the maximum flexibility and comfort. What you want to do, to see, how many people of your group or family, your hotel request, meal requirement, personal interest, or special travel activities and language service if necessary A tailor-made programme is an itinerary created just for you, in which we include everything you wish to see and do during your trip. The programme can be as long or as short as you wish. A tailor-made programme can include accommodation, meals, guide service in a given city and even excursions outside of cities
- 23. Types of Tour Itinerary • An itinerary prepared for manager includes: itinerary of different clients. Manager wants to know over all happenings at a time. • Transport itinerary includes only transport element to book transport or to inform driver. • Tour guide itinerary includes all details points to visit. • Guest itinerary includes detail description of the destination, interesting points. • Inclusive tour itinerary: tour in which all specific elements – transportation, airfare, hotels, transfers, and other costs – are offered for a flat rate. An inclusive tour does not necessarily cover all costs such as personal items and telephone. • Educational Tour itinerary - A tour designed around some educational activity. • Escorted Tour itinerary - A prearranged travel program, usually for a group, escorted by a courier. 1) In a fully-conducted tour: Escort and/or guide service is provided throughout a sightseeing program conducted by a guide, such as a city tour. • Fam Tour itinerary - Familiarization tour for travel agents or journalists planned and executed by a destination or region, usually in cooperation with an international airline. • Group Tour itinerary - A prearranged, prepaid travel program for a group usually including transportation, accommodation.
- 24. Do’s of an Itinerary • Show the date and time clearly • You must draw special attention to your highlights • Always break your itinerary up into paragraphs with new dates • Provide as much information about the attractions and activities included in your tour plan • Always us the 24 hour clock • Allow sufficient time for each highlight • Place each highlight in logical order. Remember you need to save your client traveling time and cost • Write clearly and to the point. • The client has to travel immediately to their preferred destination when they read your itinerary. • It must however leave the client wanting to travel in order to discover the destination for them. • Give them just enough information to wet their appetite. • The information must be clear about accommodation, transport, attractions, and activities that the tourist is paying for • Try to finish each day with a special highlight, if possible
- 25. Don'ts of an Itinerary • Never make promises in your description that you may not be able to keep, (e.g. don’t say, “You will enjoy a glorious sunny day at the beach”, it could pour with rain on that day). To avoid this, provide the Client with alternative that they could pursue if the plans have to change. • Never use the word etc in an itinerary • Do not overcrowd the itinerary. • Do not overthink while planning an itinerary : Having Good Knowledge about the Destination Is Really Important.
- 26. Guidelines for Itinerary Planning • Determine what time of the year your tours should ideally depart. • Determine what day of the week you should leave. • Determine how many days your tour should run. • Schedule flights with practical client considerations in mind. • Schedule a general city tour as one of your first tour activities. • Plan some on-their-own meals • (https://blog.thegoodmangroup.com/easy-meals-for-seniors) • (Restrictions, good food/home made) • Kosher food = Hebrew • (http://www.koshercertification.org.uk/whatdoe.html) • Enhance itinerary with special arrangement • Anchor the last days of your itinerary with dramatic destinations, attractions, or events. • Choose interesting and efficient routings. • Allow plenty of time for rest stops. • Don’t overburden each day. • Handle meal planning with care. • Arrival meals and breakfast should be near or at hotel • Meal planning should be varied
- 27. Resources for Itinerary Planning • Internet • Brochures • Railway and Airways timetable • Guidebooks and Magazines • Govt. Tourist Offices
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