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Travel Agent’s Category (A) Tour Leader’s Behavior in Selling Excursions and its Effect on Tourist’s Loyalty and Repeat the Visit with the Same Travel Agent: A Case Study Travel

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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The tourism industry and its various activities, such as optional trips, is one of the most important sources of income, as it is also an important source of commissions for workers in the tourism companies' sector, category (A) of sales commissions for the excursion. Reference to the internal and external competitions that the Egyptian market is going through. There is no doubt that the excursion plays an essential role in the competition between companies, so the sales departments are putting pressure on the tour leaders to achieve the highest possible profit from the excursion's sales. This sometimes leads to the use of some pressure on tourists by the group leaders, leading to the tourists' dissatisfaction or unwillingness to deal with the company again. Here comes the importance of this study to clarify the tour leader's behavior and determine the extent of the tourist's satisfaction from disloyalty and repeat the experience with The same company, which leads to a great loss for the company. Therefore, it became clear through the study that some of the group leader's wrong behaviors follow in selling excursions with tourists, the most important of which is providing inaccurate information about the trip and giving false promises. Therefore, the study recommends the necessity to emphasize the selection of the leaders of the tour groups and their evaluation and training them well on the skills of presentation and negotiation Selling and how to communicate the information clearly, analyses the comments of tourists, and solve their problems, which in turn enables the company to maintain the loyalty of its customers and repeat the visit and recommend to others.

DOI

10.21608/jaauth.2020.30987.1015

Keywords

Tour leader, excursion, tourist satisfaction, employee behaviors

Authors

First Name

Fares

Last Name

Madany

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Affiliation

Excursion manager in sky max holidays Hurghada

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hrg_1981@yahoo.com

City

hurghada

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First Name

Shimaa

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Elbanaa

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Tourism studies Department, Higher Institute Tourism Management in new Damietta

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shabanashimaa@gmail.com

City

mansoura

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Volume

19

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3

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20824

Issue Date

2020-12-01

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2020-05-25

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2020-12-01

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342

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365

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1687-1863

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2682-4612

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997

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Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality

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Travel Agent’s Category (A) Tour Leader’s Behavior in Selling Excursions and its Effect on Tourist’s Loyalty and Repeat the Visit with the Same Travel Agent: A Case Study Travel Agents’ Category (A) in Hurghada City

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22 Jan 2023