Integration of travel agencies with transport providers

Tourism sector, Travel agencies, and Transport Suppliers: Comparison of Different Estimators in the Structural Equation Modeling

“…From existing literature, it is evident that practically none of similar research has been done in the field. But as noted in some previous studies [8][9][10][11][12][13][14], the amplified integration of members in the tourism supply chains definitely leads to improved performance and bigger quality of services. Since there is a quite big gap detected in the existing literature about similar kind of research as it was ours, we believe that the findings of this study might serve as a major contribution of this paper.…”

Capacitated Facility Location and Allocation with Uncertain Demand for Tourism Logistics: A Multiobjective Optimisation Approach

“…The reason why we call these sites as Basic Site is due to the fact that these sites are the desired space nodes of delivering Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5 tourism services and logistics services at the same time and can attract a major percentage of tourists. For instance, Topolšek et al [10] discover that different transport providers would integrate with travel agencies in various ways. The highest level is achieved by bus operators, followed by air carries, water carries, and rail carries.…”

“…Tourism Logistics (TL) is defined as a space-and time-related transformation of material, people, information, energy, waste, knowledge, and capital aiming to provide the quality tourism services at the lowest total of costs (TOC) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Jin et al [12] argue that tourism logistics ought to handle two types of goods; one is items A which can be traded in tourism industry such as food and hotel supplies and the other one is items B which belong to and are carried by a tourist such as personal luggage.…”

Level of integration among agritourism accommodation sector and travel agencies

“…Travel Agencies have been recognised as a vital component of agritourism and have become an integral part of travel and tourism industry at global (Topolšek et al, 2014). These trends must be considered unique (Vujko, Gajić, 2014a), as there are tourists all over the world with the same or similar motives.…”

“…According to Aguiar-Quintana et al, (2016), travel agencies acting as intermediaries between corporate clients and suppliers. Recent studies have shown that the travel agencies are becoming increasingly aware that multidimensionality require collaboration among various providers involved in the chain as well as agritourism accommodation sector, all necessary for the survival and development of sustainable destinations (Sigala, 2008;Oroian and Gheres, 2012;Topolšek et al, 2014).…”