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Package tours by air have revolutionised the tourist industry. In the 1950s, travel agents recognised that, by chartering entire aircraft and ‘packaging’ the combination of an aircraft seat and a hotel bedroom into an ‘inclusive tour by air’, they could achieve greater profits than selling independent travel for fixed rates of commission.
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© 1992 J. Christopher Holloway
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Holloway, J.C. (1992). The Tour Operator. In: Travel and Tourism. In Business Now Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12407-7_7
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