Travel Agents usually are set up in prime locations with heavy traffic such as beside the main roads, inside crowed shopping malls or at the ground floor of a landmark building. Travel agencies gives traveling advices to travelers, promote and sell the tour packages that they have from various Tour Operators, then administer the tour bookings. On the other hand, Travel Agents do not operate tours. Special Events: Company dinner, karaoke contest. Activities: Tele-match, treasure hunt, paint ball, team building, outside office meeting. Accommodation: Hotels, Resorts, Service Apartments, Camping Sites, Dormitories, Training Camps, Chalets, Tree Houses or traditional houses & habitats that accommodating travelers. Food & Beverage: Breakfast, Tea Time or Tea Break, Lunch & Dinner, whether by set, buffet or packed food. Sight Seeing: Entrance for tourist destinations, eco-tour, adventures tour, jungle trekking, snorkeling & scuba diving, island hopping and even handicraft or cultural & living experiences.
Tour Guide: All Tour Guides must be licensed by the Ministry of Tourism Malaysia after attending and examined in a professional Tourist Guide Courses. Transportation: Chaffered Car, Chartered Bus & Van, Air Ticket, Train Ticket, Ferry Ticket, Cruise Ticket, other transit modes and even special vehicles like trishaw. The roles & responsibilities of a Tour Operator are booking and arranging: With all the necessary pricing and information compiled, the Tour Operator will draft detailed tour packages and distribute to Travel Agents in Travel Agent Directory in Malaysia and even overseas. The Tour Company will make contracts with hotels and resorts, airlines and ground transport companies like private cars, buses, vans, ferries and trains & etc. It is often referred as the Ground Handler.
In a factory scenario, a Tour Operator is like the production department and the Travel Agent is like the Sales Department.Ī Tour Operator is the organizer and provider of package holidays. In Malaysia, Tour Operators and Travel Agents are different and play different roles. Tour Operators & travel Agents are different in Malaysia! And the public have had the wrong perception for long time.