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What discounts do agents offer?
What kind of discounts do agents offer? (UKRAINE-TURKEY)?
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If you buy a tour at a promotional price, from which the agency receives only 5-7% instead of the usual 10-14%, then a 3% discount is a big favor.
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answered 7 years ago
I was always given 5%, the last time I flew through the TUI it was a little more (I don’t remember, it seems 7)
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answered 7 years ago
promo offer 5-6%, regular tour 6-8%, I have been cooperating with TA for more than 10 years, standard 2 tours per year + charter tickets or hotel booking only, if self-booking
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answered 7 years ago
I, for example, in JOE have a fixed percentage of 11% of the price of the tour on the site, they used to take it in dollars without any problems, but for a year now the hryvnia has fallen like a dollar.
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answered 7 years ago
Vika284, but how do travel agents even earn if they give you 5-6 from a promotional offer, for which 6-7 in total commission? .... I just work at the agency myself. As they say, you are your own boss. What if I had to pay the girl's salary? Keep 1% of the tour? (an average of $15), pay for rent, advertising, site promotion (a bank guarantee of course), taxes .... And when I leave 2%, it turns out that someone offered cheaper! ))).... No words! Dumping, in my opinion, is not the most important thing in travel agency activities! And if your Agent tells you all the disadvantages and advantages of tours, calls before departure to remind you of the flight, gives the child a pen (candy, balloon), accompanies the child for a month in anticipation of a burning and better course .... then you are really ready to pay him out of $ 1,500 - fifteen? For tea in a cafe, the waitress is left 10% of the order and the girl smiled at you for 10 minutes in total! And for cleaning the room - too ...
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answered 7 years ago
visapoland3, tips for waiters, and less than 10% is considered bad form, I personally am always enraged. Just hard work to bring / carry away a few plates!
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answered 7 years ago
visapoland3 and here is dumping, my TA does not give such a big discount on my bookings, I know that non-Kiev agencies give even new customers an even bigger discount. I love my TA, they are honest and responsible, attentive. Over the past 7 years, I myself can tell any TA about the advantages and disadvantages of tours, and even advise absolutely free of charge other TA clients on hotels and excursions in certain regions. I always choose hotels and flights and tours on my own and through which TO to order, I read the visa legislation of countries and what insurance to buy and which transfer is better for a group or taxi .... TA only pay for either the entire tour or only a charter from TO or only a hotel from TO . If I have questions, I call the tour operator and ask, then the agency writes TO requests at my request, because TO does not work directly with the tourist.
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answered 7 years ago
Likewise.
I need sweets and balloons, and I'm not a sclerotic to remind me of a flight - this is already an obsession.
I contact the agency to book an already selected tour. And even checked for relevance. They give me a discount of 8, despite the fact that I did not even ask. I asked when you will start making money on me, they say - we make money on others who need advice, selection and attention.
I need sweets and balloons, and I'm not a sclerotic to remind me of a flight - this is already an obsession.
I contact the agency to book an already selected tour. And even checked for relevance. They give me a discount of 8, despite the fact that I did not even ask. I asked when you will start making money on me, they say - we make money on others who need advice, selection and attention.
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answered 7 years ago
and then tourists also wonder why travel agents work so badly .....
The travel agent is obliged to: give the maximum discount, smile, listen to a million requests, find the minimum price, be sure to make concessions, then be prepared that the tourist changes his mind or decides to change or rebook the tour, and this is already for 1-2% of the tour.
The tourist is obliged: to take out the brain of the TA for 1-2% of the tour, to present to the TA why this TO exchange rate differs from the market one and be sure to round the amount in their favor ... 5-20 UAH is not money for the TA.
Our mentality is unbeatable.....
The travel agent is obliged to: give the maximum discount, smile, listen to a million requests, find the minimum price, be sure to make concessions, then be prepared that the tourist changes his mind or decides to change or rebook the tour, and this is already for 1-2% of the tour.
The tourist is obliged: to take out the brain of the TA for 1-2% of the tour, to present to the TA why this TO exchange rate differs from the market one and be sure to round the amount in their favor ... 5-20 UAH is not money for the TA.
Our mentality is unbeatable.....
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answered 7 years ago
I come to the travel agency with the tour already chosen (therefore, they only have to send the documents back and forth. It's all business.) And the travel agency's earnings go to another (I myself was present in one "sharaga" ("gallop-across Europe" a couple of years ago ) when a representative of a travel agency “sucked in” a tour to Pinara in Tekirova to one man at the price of Pixos (at the price of Pegasus for 7 nights about 800 dollars, he was sold for 1500) It was in 2011 in May, so this is earnings! -700 bucks from scratch .For that kind of money, they smiled there with the whole company, fidgeted, drank coffee, etc. It didn’t matter to me, but they “littered” him coolly.
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answered 7 years ago
AllOverTheWorld why did you fantasize all this? What searches, what a million requests?
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answered 7 years ago
That's just the point ... that they divorced ... but did not earn money, and this is not earnings, not decency ...
Earnings of travel agencies that are not one-day, completely different.
TA is like a beautician, dentist and hairdresser .... when you find someone who suits you, then there is no point in leaving and checking him. And if a specialist is good, then it makes no sense for him to "breed" regular customers .... because the best advertising is word of mouth.
Earnings of travel agencies that are not one-day, completely different.
TA is like a beautician, dentist and hairdresser .... when you find someone who suits you, then there is no point in leaving and checking him. And if a specialist is good, then it makes no sense for him to "breed" regular customers .... because the best advertising is word of mouth.
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answered 7 years ago
what's with the fantasy? what is fantasy? Or do you really think all such advanced tourists? read the questions on turpravda ... do you think they are not asked in TA?
And in sense what searches? right now, all the tourists come and say .... please me to Turkey, Belek, max royale, I know the price, and the number please is this category ... I have all the passports with me, we can play around with the departure dates, it’s not important for me to fly to the third Tuesday of September in the morning, and I will be completely calm and will not take your brains out if the charter departure time is postponed.
this is why everything is simple for you ..... it would be interesting to look at you at your first booking .... although I know the answer in advance ... all by myself, all by myself ...
And in sense what searches? right now, all the tourists come and say .... please me to Turkey, Belek, max royale, I know the price, and the number please is this category ... I have all the passports with me, we can play around with the departure dates, it’s not important for me to fly to the third Tuesday of September in the morning, and I will be completely calm and will not take your brains out if the charter departure time is postponed.
this is why everything is simple for you ..... it would be interesting to look at you at your first booking .... although I know the answer in advance ... all by myself, all by myself ...
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answered 7 years ago
I have a good agent friend, and when my other friends ask me to give her phone number, I don’t give it to everyone, because I understand they will take out the brain and won’t go anywhere. There are those who do not distinguish Alanya from Antalya, they think that this is the same thing, while their "friends went for $ 150", but they firmly believe that their conditions will be like in Mardan. So, somewhere they still go_call, and all this, as they said here, for 10 kopecks of remuneration
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answered 7 years ago
AllOverTheWorld, don't be nervous :) Here, at least three unsubscribers with big discounts do everything themselves, and come only for a ready-made tour. And others do not give such big discounts!
Of course, and I was once a novice tourist. Moreover - when I started traveling, there were no discounts AT ALL, and no one was indignant. But now I have absolutely nothing to pay 300-500 dollars to an agent. From me, zero problems, questions too. One benefit, albeit small, but it is.
Of course, and I was once a novice tourist. Moreover - when I started traveling, there were no discounts AT ALL, and no one was indignant. But now I have absolutely nothing to pay 300-500 dollars to an agent. From me, zero problems, questions too. One benefit, albeit small, but it is.
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answered 7 years ago
Pachok, if a tourist came with his hotel, personally chosen, he himself checked for relevance, as you say, he learned the course and brought it in hryvnia, and only "documents back and forth" - I will give him 8 and 9 out of 10! For this 1%, but without the removal of the brain, I will be JUST happy to deal with such people !!! These are great clients! I love them and ALWAYS give a discount!!! Have you heard that there are tourists who choose a tour for a little over a month, maybe 2? They ask, ask questions, write in the evening or at night, clarify, compare with other agencies, get offended if within half an hour they were not sent a selection of tours with burning prices, etc. ..... And then, oh, to me at another agency at cost offered - outbid their price! Then we will buy from you!))))) HA
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answered 7 years ago
Vika284, you are the MOST VALUABLE tourists! Responsible, independent, advanced, permanent! This is probably why you are sitting here on the forums, gaining information, answering others .... Yes! Super! But new clients who cannot distinguish a Tour Operator from a Travel Agency are all the time! And I, as a working person, having spent a certain amount of time on customer service, can easily calculate the Profitability of the transaction! Interest received from the transaction / number of hours spent on customer service! And if you came with the selected tour (for example, $1000): 1% = $10! $10hour of time = $10/hour! - NOT BAD, right ??)) And now another client came with questions and selection ..... the same $ 10 per hour every day for a month (we take only working days, although they often write on weekends) 22 days = 0 .45 dollars per hour! This is a bit of a stretch! Do you understand what I mean???))))
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answered 7 years ago
BUT the funniest thing is if such an Other tourist then goes with ours, now "his own ready-made" solution and buys half a penny cheaper from another travel agency)))
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answered 7 years ago
Pachok, in order to get 300-500 dollars for a tour, as you write, is it necessary to sell a tour for 3,000-5,000 dollars and at the same time not give up anything? Do you personally often buy tours for $ 5,000 and even without discounts? Is everyone okay with math here? I don’t understand where travel agents have so much money in your opinion))) Then everyone would not go to IT, but to travel agents! ;)))
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answered 7 years ago
Well, do you give such big discounts?
I don’t work in tourism, the field of activity is completely different, but also, roughly speaking, mediation, and from my bell tower I have already written and asked agents many times - why don’t you do paid consultations? A man bought a tour - they took away the consultation from the cost. I didn’t buy it - you still didn’t work in vain.
I don’t work in tourism, the field of activity is completely different, but also, roughly speaking, mediation, and from my bell tower I have already written and asked agents many times - why don’t you do paid consultations? A man bought a tour - they took away the consultation from the cost. I didn’t buy it - you still didn’t work in vain.
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answered 7 years ago
visapoland3, I don’t buy without discounts, that’s why I write 300-500 I don’t have anything to pay the agent for, I pay less. And what surprises you in the numbers 3000 or 5000? This year I spent a month in Kimeros with a child, our TO prices were not lower than 3700 for such a tour. I bought it differently, it turned out 2900.
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answered 7 years ago
Indeed, if you think about what "smart" questions are asked here, then they ask the same or "smarter" questions in the agency. For example, I do not check the relevance of the tour, but simply call 2-3 hotels and ask for a price, and even after such minimal work on my part, I was told more than once that "there would be more such clients." It follows from this that those who come with the chosen hotel, moreover, checked on all counts, are critically few
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answered 7 years ago
Yes ... there are a lot of nerds among the biomass of tourists - I don’t envy the girls in TA.
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answered 7 years ago
Elenka08 I'll tell you more - if I could buy online from TO, I wouldn't go anywhere at all. And there are only a few such operators.
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