Interpretation of zero-package tourism terms

Package tour means that tourists pay all or part of the travel expenses in advance to the travel agency before the start of tourism activities, and the travel agency arranges food, accommodation, transportation, shopping, entertainment and other activities for tourists according to the travel contract signed with tourists. Package tour includes group package tour, individual package tour, half package tour, small package tour and zero package tour.

Group package tour

Group package tour refers to the way that 10 or more tourists form a tour group, take a one-time prepayment of travel expenses and entrust all related travel services to travel agencies. The package tour includes the following services: ① Hotel room; ② Three meals a day; ③ City tour bus; ④ Translation tour guide service; ⑤ Shuttle service in transportation center; ⑥ 20 kg baggage service per person; ⑦ Tickets for visiting places; (8) Tickets for cultural activities and full escort services; Domestic teams and outbound teams include round-trip transportation tickets.

For tourists, participating in the package tour can get more favorable prices, predict the travel expenses and maintain a familiar atmosphere in the tour group. Moreover, the travel agency provides all the travel arrangements and tour guide services to make tourists feel safe. However, traveling with a group means that tourists have to give up their individuality and adapt to the * * * nature of the group.

For travel agencies, the booking period of group package tour is long and relatively easy to operate. Batch operation can improve work efficiency and reduce operating costs.

Individual package tour.

Individual package tour refers to package tour projects with less than 10 people. Most people who take part in individual and group tours are relatives and friends who voluntarily go together. In addition to the safety and reliability of tourism activities, individual package tour also has the advantage of taking care of tourists' personality.

The disadvantages of individual package tour are: ① the price is generally higher than that of group package tour; ② The per capita cost for travel agencies to organize or receive individual package tourists is higher.

C. Half-package tour

Semi-package tour is a product form developed on the basis of package tour. Half-package tour is a package tour that does not include lunch and dinner. The main purpose of designing semi-package tour by travel agencies is to reduce the intuitive price of products and improve the competitiveness of products. In addition, tourists can choose and taste local flavors more freely. Both group tours and individual tours can take the form of semi-package tours.

D, small package tour

Small package tour is also called optional tour, which consists of non-optional part and optional part. Non-optional parts include accommodation and breakfast, airport (station, wharf) to hotel transfer and intercity transportation fees, which are booked by tourists before travel; Optional parts include tour guide service, lunch, dinner, flavor meal, cultural program appreciation, sightseeing spots and so on. This part of the travel expenses can be booked or paid in cash. Small package tour is economical, flexible and convenient.

Zero package tour

Package tour is a unique product form. When taking part in this form of tour, tourists must go to and leave the tourist destination with the tour group. After arriving at the destination, tourists can move freely and are not bound by tour groups. The characteristics of zero package tour are: ① tourists can enjoy the preferential price of group air tickets; ② Travel agencies can handle tourist visa procedures in a unified way.

(2) combined tourism

Tourists arrive at their destination on the specified date, and the destination travel society gathers them for a group trip, with no limit on the number of people in each group. Visitors can join a group or move freely. After the end of the tourism activities, the tour group is dissolved at the end of the tourism activities, and the tourists return to their places of residence. Combined tourism activities have great freedom and strong selectivity.