Introduction on how Tourism works
Tourism is one of the primary sources of remuneration for a country. According to the official website Sustaining tourism, travel and tourism represents approximately 10% of the global Gross Domestic Product for many countries. This number is assured by the fact that the global tourism industry creates around 11% of the world’s employment opportunities in 2016.
This increase is partly due to the intensification of sustainable tourism these resents years. The goal of this tourism vision is to include the preservation of the environment in the daily life of the travelers by saving water, eating local food or buying local product memories. All of these small actions have the purpose to protect the planet and improve the country’s economy.
International tourist arrivals have increased over the years, indeed more than 1.32 billion in 2017 and 1.8 billion are expected for 2030. That’s why, as a sustainable travel agency we want to take the opportunity to educate our customers about this kind of tourism.
Even if more and more tour operators are sustainable, it is still cheaper and easier for the customers to go through a local and online travel agency. There are fewer intermediaries which means that the total commission cost on the trip is less and the client can now book his international holidays less expensive.
New sales channels through Internet
We have prepared two schemes that should show you the difference between traditional sales channels in tourism and the new scheme that skips a few intermediaries due to the immersion of Internet.
Traditional scheme
$: Local agency abroad price including commission
$$: Local agency price + Tour operator commission
$$$: Local agency price + Tour operator commission + Corner agency commission = final price
New scheme
$: Local agency abroad price including commission
$$: Local agency price + commission = final price