Characteristics of A Package Tour Leading Product Innovation for Tour Operators

The travel industry has contributed to realization of mass tourism which means all the people can travel around simply and easily since 1940s. A package tour arranged by a tour operator includes some components as service offerings by suppliers such as transportation, accommodation, meal service, etc. It, however, does not provide a tourist with all of experiences during tourism activities but only with tourism consumption. As a result, it has often been seen that a package tour is standardized and the value of experiences of tourism can be possibly omitted due to its three characteristics, non-distribution, incompleteness and limit of development. Product innovation, driven through a process of making a package tour, must be expected because the travel industry can create the value of tourism by marketing its product