What's the difference between tour operators, tour wholesalers and tour sellers?

First of all, the concept is different:

1. Travel operators:

It refers to a travel agency mainly engaged in the combination and wholesale of package tourism products, and also engaged in the retail business of tourism products.

2. Travel wholesalers:

Refers to the business of organizing and wholesale tour groups.

3. Tourism suppliers:

Refers to the travel agent who buys tourism products and then resells them.

Second, the characteristics are different:

1. Travel operators:

Through the investigation of tourists' tourism demand and hobby consumption level, tourism operators predict the development trend of tourism market and tourism product demand, design and combine products that meet the market demand, and sell them in the tourism market through travel agencies.

2. Travel wholesalers:

Sign agreements with hotels, transportation departments, tourist attractions and other departments involved in package tourism, purchase these services in advance, and then design unique package tourism products according to the different needs and consumption levels of tourists, and sell them in the tourism market through tourism retailers.

3. Tourism suppliers:

The most striking feature is that the ownership of tourism products is transferred between the buyer and the seller. Dealers obtain the ownership of tourism products through purchase, and their income comes from the difference between the purchase price and the sale price of tourism products.

Extended data

As the direct customers of travel wholesalers are travel retailers, they are directly guided by the needs of retailers and buy a large number of products of travel producers, such as sightseeing tickets for scenic spots, seat tickets for travel vehicles for a certain period of time, rooms in tourist hotels, catering products and so on. According to the needs of retailers, enjoy bulk discounts.

Then they are combined into packaged tourism products at various times and destinations, sold to tourism retailers at a certain batch and wholesale price, and then resold by retailers to final consumers (tourists). Some travel wholesalers are very powerful, and their sales networks are all over the world. Some travel wholesalers are small in scale, and only deal in special tourism products in specific tourism markets, such as study tours and sports tours, with fewer outlets.

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