Concept selected: Traditional tour operator
- Definition
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An intermediary wholesale agency working between tourist establishments and retail agencies is considered to be a traditional tour operator. Tour operators prepare programmes and package holidays, and offer them to the retail agencies that sell them to the client, earning a commission for this. A traditional tour operator is considered to be that which does not exclusively use the Internet to commercialise its products, but it might use the Internet in order to commercialise part, or to perform the paperwork necessary in its intermediation tasks, and even with the hotel establishment.
- Source
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Tourist surveys. Methodology
- Topic
- Statistical operations (links to the Inventory of Statistical Operations)
- Concepts associated