NTL Record

Title “Quit Yanking My Supply Chain”: The Challenges Facing Travel Agencies in Canada
Record ID 35528
Personal Name
Creator
Baldwin, Gordon G.
Source 7p. in various pagings
Publisher Statistics Canada. Transportation Division
Publication Date 20000000
Language English
Abstract Travel Agencies in Canada enter the new century with many challenges. The gap that they must bridge is a possible erosion of both revenue and customers. The aviation industry has been imposing caps on commissions resulting in the requirement for agencies to sell more product to generate the same revenue. At the same time, selling more product could be more difficult as air carriers, hotels, car rental firms and cruise lines are increasingly offering more direct sales on the Internet. This web presence has enabled the product “suppliers” to deliver their product while bypassing the travel agencies in the supply chain. There is also increased competition from travel sales web-sites that attempt to attract the business that local travel agents once could have considered as their own. The paper will examine the nature of the challenges facing this service industry and the possible responses.
Rosap ID dot:6357
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/6357
TRT Terms Travel agents; Supply chain management; Sales; Tourism
Classification NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Travel Demand;
NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Planning - Newsletters
Geographical
Coverage
Canada
OCLC 81113898
TRIS Online
Accession No
799146
Report Number 50F0003-XIE
Resource type Research Paper
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/35000/35500/35528/50F0003XIE.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository