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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 415.

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Familiarization Tours.

Spotlight

Quite naturally, many, perhaps most, agents are themselves wide travellers, taking every opportunity to visit new and different places. Special familiarization tours (“fam” trips) are often arranged for agents at little or no cost. Airlines and tourist agencies are pleased to arrange trips to the areas they represent, most of them at reduced or minimal cost to the agent. One year's work as a bona fide agent is required for reduced-fare air travel. The more agents travel, the better informed they are and, presumably, the better travel agents they become.

A sense of geography is part of their equipment. Every year, names that had been unknown to the general public suddenly become the places to go. The Seychelles (islands in the Indian Ocean), the Algarve (southern Portugal), Costa del Sol (Spain), and Saint Martin (Caribbean) are names to conjure with and part of the agent's bag of knowledge.

You are a travel agent. Use the following information to pick tours for the customers listed below. Describe cost, air and land travel arrangements, accommodation, meals, sample itinerary, additional components, and so on.

1. The newlywed couple wants to spend their honeymoon in the romantic place. They want first-class accommodation, and price is not of great concern.

2. A middle-aged couple wants an escorted tour of Europe. They need an inexpensive tour.

3. A group of travellers wants an escorted historical tour of South America.

4. A businesswoman will be working in Dallas for three days. She Wants a suite in a top-quality hotel; full services, including a health club; and access to a translator (Japanese), a stenographer, and a typist.