Package tour operator
Package tour operators (or Paketer ; English group travel wholesaler ) are in the travel industry wholesaler that tourist services and individual components into a complete package bundle.
General
The concept of the package comes from the packaging of different travel services into a complete package. Package dealers are wholesalers who combine partial tourism services into a complete travel arrangement (“packages”). This will net prices to tour operators and self-organizing travel agencies offered and sold. The main customers are tour operator , by supplementing its own transport service to carry out a package holiday, and smaller operators of group travel .
Field of activity
As a wholesaler , the Paketer only maintains business relationships with companies ( business-to-business , B2B) and not with consumers . As a reseller , he procures tourist services and individual components such as overnight stays , travel meals , excursions , sightseeing , event tickets , tour guides and reservations for bus , ferry , air and ship trips . These individual services are combined into a package and sold on to tour operators.
Parcelers therefore have a high purchasing power , which leads to lower purchase prices when making reservations than a small coach company could achieve. Parcels therefore use the law of mass production with the result of economies of scale that lead to lower market prices through fixed cost degression .
Legal issues
Since parcels have no direct business relationship with travelers (consumers), they are not considered tour operators in the sense of § 651a BGB , so that the consumer protection travel law does not apply to them. The law of the contract for work and services applies between the package and the tour operator .
Association
In March 1982 the “Association of International Package Tour Operators” was established. V. “, an association with 39 parcel members.
literature
- Literature on package tour operators in the catalog of the German National Library
