Costing a Tour Itinerary
E&J Tourism Consultants provides coaching on costing a tour itinerary. First, let us know what a tour itinerary is. This is a journey plan that is followed by tourists while on holiday in particular safari destinations. This involves stating the attractions to visit, and activities to take part in, giving details on accommodations, mode of transport, and transfers among other items that make up a good safari must be included in the tour itinerary.
Do you know what is involved in costing a tour itinerary? Come and get skills on how and what you need to perfect in costing a tour itinerary or journey plan. It is important before you start quoting for any itinerary, to make it detailed following the interest of your customer or guests. Know what they like most, and where they wish to stay for instance high-end safari lodges or typical budget Bandas among other items used in forming an itinerary.
Here are the tips for costing a tour itinerary: –
1. Find out the size of the group/number of passengers
Before you think of costing a tour itinerary, always find out how many passengers are signing in for the tour. The number of visitors determines the number of things from vehicle capacity to use, the number of rooms to quote, and their entrance fees to an entry site among many things. It’s therefore advised always to first know the number of persons you are costing for following that itinerary.
2. Choice of accommodations facilities
Costing a tour itinerary, it is crucial to know the category of lodging facilities that are being used. For instance, guests can choose to stay in top-end facilities, others can decide to stay at moderate facilities and others can decide to stay at budget facilities, all these facilities will certainly give a different price to your guests.
3. The attractions selected
The attractions are very key while costing a tour itinerary. In Uganda, the most expensive attraction is the Mountain Gorillas resulting in Gorilla trekking safari. This and more attractions all have got a price for a visitor to take part in. It is therefore advisable to know and check the tariff guide of that attraction considered.
4. Mode of transportation and transfers
It is known that most of the tours are by road transfers especially here in Uganda. It is so important to note in some countries, flights are very common and available to hire to ferry guests from one point to the other. Others can choose to use a bus or ship or charter helicopter for their transfers from one destination to the other
5. Number of days/nights of the tour
It is so important to have the right number of days and nights before quoting or costing a tour itinerary. Short safaris will definitely have low prices for many days that will definitely have a more price than a short tour itinerary.
Other things to consider will include the cost of a guide/driver sometime these include English-speaking and non-English driver guides like those speaking in French, Russian or Chinese. The other key costing a tour itinerary will include your markup or profit lines, seasonality especially with many safari lodges tend to have low season rates in April and May and highest seasons from June all the way to September of a given year
