Planning a tour to a beautiful destination excites every traveller, but visiting a beautiful destination with a perfectly planned tour tailored to their needs and requirements is what gets their motor running!

Travellers go on trips with a purpose. It can be exploration, relaxation, rejuvenating themselves or something else! 

You as a tour operator should align yourself in fulfilling their purpose and capitalise on their demands and needs to optimise your planning! 

Planning is a vital part of organising and executing. You can't execute things and succeed if you don't know how to plan efficiently.

Top 3 ways for tour operators to optimise tour planning! 

1. Use Google Trends

• Google Trends is a very powerful, simple, and free tool that you can use to escalate your business
  
  
• With the help of this tool, you can see what people are searching for and incorporate trends
  
  
• For example - If you are a tour operator based in the USA planning a trip to South Africa, you can just set it to your geography and see what popular places people of the USA are searching for to visit in Africa. You can further leverage this and plan a tour to that particular destination.

2.   Up-to-date tour packages 

• From having beachy vacations in the Maldives to going for a wildlife safari in Africa, the trends in the tourism industry are ever-changing

• For you to excel, you need to keep your package offerings updated with the latest destinations trends

• Topical Advertising is a very interesting concept that you can use to promote your offerings.

• For example - If the Maldives is trending, you can create tour packages for the Maldives and market them to attract customers.

   

3. Track the performance of your packages

• With the help of a travel backend solution, you can see which of your tour packages performed well

• A travel ERP software will track the performance of your packages in terms of leads or inquiries

• You can analyze which package worked well for your travel business and which didn't

• This will help you make better packages in the future and optimize the tour planning process to its full potential

• It can be challenging for many tour operators to optimize their tour planning and operations, but it is vital to do this process to drive the best results. 

   

So, here are 3 promising solutions to optimize your daily operations!

1. Reduce turn-around time with timely follow-ups 

• A common challenge faced by businesses is to manage inquiries and revert in time
  
  
• With technology, the man-hours spent doing a lot of operational tasks are reduced
  
  
• Since many processes are automated, there's an increase in productivity while saving a lot of time
  
  
• With the use of travel software, all inquiries can be managed efficiently & automate follow-up emails and messages.

 2. Generate reports to track performance

• To track your teams and business progress, you can generate reports and analyze them.

• You can easily track your team's performance using travel software and have automated reports about how many leads the team has touched base with or how a specific offering is performing.

• Generating reports will help you analyze data appropriately and enhance the overall performance of your team.

3. Use software technologies - Travel ERP software

• In today's technology-driven world, it's important to use software that aids in the growth of your business.
  
  
• Travel software will assist you in managing your workload, streamlining your processes, and centralizing your bookings under one system.
  
  
• Efficiently carrying out every process gets easier with the help of travel software.

Introducing ETOS travel technology solutions that streamline operations, finances, sales, contracting, etc under a single window. It takes into account every minute & localised requirement and enables you to meet a fair amount of needs. 

To help you understand travel technology better, here is an article for you - Travel ERP 101 - A tour operators guide to Travel Technology

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