Definition

An intermediary wholesale agency working between tourist establishments and retail agencies is considered to be a traditional tour operator. Tour operators prepare programmes and package holidays, and offer them to the retail agencies that sell them to the client, earning a commission for this.
A traditional tour operator is considered to be that which does not exclusively use the Internet to commercialise its products, but it might use the Internet in order to commercialise part, or to perform the paperwork necessary in its intermediation tasks, and even with the hotel establishment.

Source

Tourist surveys. Methodology

Topic

• Catering and tourism

Statistical operations

(links to the Inventory of Statistical Operations)

• 30179 - Hotel Price Index
• 30222 - Holiday Dwelling Price Index
• 30230 - Indicators on the Profitability of the Hotel Sector

Concepts associated

• Online travel agency
• Traditional travel agency