Travel Agency is a company or a person who arranges at the same time organizes services that are related to tours as well as travel in many countries all over the world. For instance, in Singapore, Travel Agencies have the mandate of providing travel as well as tour packages that involves travel by sea, air, or land.
You need to remember that companies or people who provide transport only (like taxi firms or trucks, which move goods for sale) are not in the definition.
What are the kinds of people who needs travel agency license?
This kind of licence is needed when conducting business in the country as travel agent. You need to remember that Singapore Tourism Board known as STB, has the government mandate of issuing these licenses since it is defined under Section 4 of Travel Agents in Act ( Cap 334) as a travel agent providing the above services.
The following are some of jobs that can do according to the Section 4 of Travel Agents in Act ( Cap 334);
· Has the right of selling tickets that are entitled to personal to travel, or can otherwise arrange on behalf of another person the right of passage at any conveyance.
· Has the ability to facilitate another person’s capability to travel through selling or even arranging for fee hotel accommodation, foreign visas and transport tickets to other destinations within and outside Singapore. You need to recall that A TAL is never required whenever the place of accommodation and mode of transport is possessed by company.
· Purchases for resale these rights of passage on the conveyance
· Conducts tours or arranges within or even outside Singapore
· Has that ability to carry out an activity that the Board may prescribe as of national interest.
· Holds it out, or advertises, as it ...
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...e travel agency licenses applications online. You need to declare any kind of shareholdings in the other travel agencies and the application often takes 3 to 5 working days or almost one week. This license fee is always S$300.
The IPA letter must have all certain conditions, which you will fulfill before you are given the final approval.
The rejected application is for the people who do not meet the needed requirements and the authority often do not give reason for your application rejection. However, you can appeal within 30 days of rejection. A review process can sometimes take up to 14 days.
On the renewals, this license of Singapore travel agency is only valid for 2 years and often expires on the 31 December of following year regardless of the month you initially completed your application. You need to renew your license a month prior to its expiration date.
· Works closely with tourism businesses, associations and other destinations to encourage tourism to grow, · Secures grants and additional funds for new tourism activities, · Funds market research to keep up-to-date with tourism trends, · Provides advice and support to local businesses, · Participates in several marketing partnerships with tourism businesses and councils.
This website links to a report on the increasing number of travel agents within the past number of years.
Land Rover is offering full-service travel agents that book flights, hotels, car rentals, and arranges visas, bringing customers the best in travel experience. Land Rover agents will also handle customer money when they travel to another country and provide a personal medical doctor at no charge in case of an emergency.
Confederation College can also train the people but that will include a lot of cost initially and it will be better to match Singaporean HR style with the existing HR style over time and slowly. Social and cultural factors Crime rate Singapore has the second lowest murder rate in the world. The security of personal belongings while traveling, the rate of snatching and pick pocketing is reducing every year in Singapore. According to a report by BBC in 2011, for 80 days there was no record of pick pocketing and snatching in Singapore (BBC, 2013).
According to Leiper “Transportation is the only link between the tourist-generating region and destination region”[2]So, transportation was a more interesting sector to discuss in the report but I tried to find a company which is related with all these main sub-sectors discussed above in the report. I have decided to look in the U.K market for such company because “Tourism is one of the largest industries in U.K, worth approximately 75.9 £ Billion to the U.K economy in 2002 and supporting around 2.1 million jobs.” [3] During my research on internet I found many companies offering services in the tourism of U.K but I have decided to choose “Simply Travel” because of its variety of services offering related with the accommodation, transportation and attractions.
As aforementioned, there are three market segments in travel agency industry, however, this analysis will focus only on outbound tourism which is the main stream of revenue for the industry. In light of above analysis of the principle and factors influencing demand, exchange rate can be classified as price in the short-run. Travel prices including the price of transportation and the prices of goods and services consumed at the destinations (Dwyer et al., 2016), will rise significantly, thus, lead to higher price of travel agency service. Classified
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Tremewan, C. (1994). The political economy of social control in Singapore. New York: St. Martin's Press.
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