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A tour at a flat rate including air fares, accommodation, transfer and sight seeing but not necessarily covering all costs or prearranged combination of air transportation and surface arrangements or the tour in which a large percentage of airline passengers travel is inclusive tour and the things, which are required for producing a good inclusive tour are professional skills, thorough product knowledge, imagination and many years of experiences. The main characteristics of inclusive tours are travel arrangements are planned in advance, transportation and accommodation plus various land arrangements, sold at an all-inclusive prices covering all features included in the tour and must be paid in full prior to departure by the client. The two categories of inclusive tours are independent inclusive tours and escorted inclusive tours. The inclusive tours can be formed by combining several packages and tour to form a complete itinerary for example - flight to destination, join a cruise, fly to other destination and join some city packages. The special individual and group inclusive tour airfares have been established by iata member airlines for inclusive tours and when an inclusive tour fares are not available in “passenger air tariff” then normal or special fares must be used. In the “passenger air tariff” manual the individual and group inclusive tour fares are shown in yit (for individual inclusive tour) and ygv (for group inclusive tour). A prearranged combination of air transportation and surface arrangements other than solely public transportation. The points which should be considered by the agent when producing an inclusive tours brochure are what sort of brochure is wanted, should it be in color, or in black and white, how many pages and how many pictures. When making the programmes for inclusive tour the things should be specify by the agent are services which are included or not included in the estimate, method of payment, which costs will not be refundable in case of subsequent cancellations, fares and land arrangement costs are subject to change before the actual date of departure and agent’s service fee. He inclusive tour carter is made available to the consumer at a fixed all inclusive prices through retail agent and it’s a combination of charter flights and land arrangements. A prearranged combination of air transportation and surface arrangements other than just public transportation and are arranged by travel agents or tour operators. |
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