CHINATOWN travel agents. Question on booking of guided holiday tours with travel agencies.

[joemartini]

Question on booking of guided holiday tours with travel agencies.

on 2 occasions, I've booked guided tours to South Korea and Japan,
with the travel agencies saying the required headcount has not been yet reached (eg 15 or 20),
only to have them confirmed that the tour cannot proceed as due to insufficient headcount as the departure date draws closer.

is this possible?
say maybe the travel agency had a max limit headcount of 20.
they managed to hit 16, including me and a friend.

then a bigger group of say 6pax comes along, and the travel agent then remove me and my friend to hit the headcount number of 14 to accommodate the bigger group of 6, so that have a complete headcount of 20.

is this a practice of travel agents? to maximise their headcount and revenue?

anyone experience this before??

 

[A Singaporean]

Ramesh does not travel cheap so he can travel anytime and not restricted to a minimum number of travellers.

 

[k1976]

Question on booking of guided holiday tours with travel agencies.

on 2 occasions, I've booked guided tours to South Korea and Japan,
with the travel agencies saying the required headcount has not been yet reached (eg 15 or 20),
only to have them confirmed that the tour cannot proceed as due to insufficient headcount as the departure date draws closer.

is this possible?
say maybe the travel agency had a max limit headcount of 20.
they managed to hit 16, including me and a friend.

then a bigger group of say 6pax comes along, and the travel agent then remove me and my friend to hit the headcount number of 14 to accommodate the bigger group of 6, so that have a complete headcount of 20.

is this a practice of travel agents? to maximise their headcount and revenue?

anyone experience this before??

I tot the more the merrier?
So far I only know they have a lower tour formation limit as this is their break even cost head count

 

[laksaboy]

If you want to use a travel agency, use the one at Suntec. That one proudly brags about having a NDP marching contingent.

They are always handing out leaflets at the mall's entrance.

https://www.euholidays.com.sg