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Pricing Competition and Channel Coordination in the Tourism Supply Chain with Optional Tours

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Author
Guo, Qiang
Shi, Ye
Dong, Junfeng
Guo, Xiaolong
Anderson, Chris K.
Abstract

The authors consider a tourism supply chain that consists of a tour operator in the source market and a local operator at the destination. The tour product is composed of predesigned tours and optional tours. Consumers are sensitive to the price and the availability of optional tours, represented as the ratio of optional tours. The authors analyses how the ratio of optional tours to predesigned tours affects each player’s equilibrium decisions given three different consumer attitudes towards optional tours. They find that, when the channel is coordinated and the ratio of optional tours is sufficiently large, the local operator may reduce commissions. To curb the impacts of lowering commissions, the authors introduce a tax mechanism aimed at optional tours. Numeral examples are provided to illustrate the pricing impacts of optional tours.

Date Issued
2014-10-01
Keywords
tourism supply chain management
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optional tours
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over low commission
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tax mechanism
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economics
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