At forty travels and tours, we off¬er our clients the co-ordination of comprehensive travel itineraries within a 24 hour turnaround time. Our team of highly skilled staff¬ have been trained to understand client needs and off¬er the best options available. We wholesale and retail our packages and this gives us the cutting edge in terms of  offering our clients THE most competitive prices.

Technology has enables us to maximise the use of latest reservations systems to provide immediate feedback to our clients wherever possible.
We have partnered with reputable tour operators in various destinations to off¬er the best rates for group and individual tour packages.

• Flights
• Accommodation
• Car Hire
• Cruises (Local And International)
• Visas – MICE (Meetings And Incentives)
• Hajj and Umrah
• Foreign Exchange
• Conferences
• Tours
• Local Travelling
• Travel Insurance
• Hotel Accommodation & Transfers
• Same Day Cancellation Services.
• Affiliation to All Major Airlines, Hotel Groups and Travel Partners.

Services

Forty Travels is a travel company that intends to deliver leisure travel packages to clients.  Forty Travels intends to guide clients in selecting a trip(s) based on pre-defined vacation criteria. This analysis will be based on user profiles, set by the clients, which includes preferences such as: 

• Budget
• Activities sought
• Destination, and
• Time of Travel

A traveller will hence be able to select areas of interest based on their preferences and subsequently identify destinations to visit. The intention is to provide customers with access to exclusive travel destinations, service to fully appreciate destinations through information packages, not just sight-seeing, and access to special interest travel according to the group’s/individual’s preferences. 

Competitive Comparison

Presently there are many companies offering services similar to ours. However, considering the pace of change and current growth rate of the tourism industry, there isn’t a shortage nor will there be in the future as travelling has become something each individual does an wishes to do so in their future. Hence there will be a need to not only firmly establish ourselves on the market, but also strongly differentiate ourselves from these other travel agencies. However, on a broader scale our competition comes in several forms: 

1. The most significant competition are hotels and travel agencies offering travel packages to their clients. They undertake this service in order to establish a competitive advantage over their competitors. However, instead of directly competing with them we intend to establish good working relationships in the form of strategic alliances such that we are able to offer the service for their clients and thus enabling them to concentrate on their core activities whilst ensuring clients are fully satisfied. Our key advantage in this regard will be our specialty of the service and hence wide knowledge ensuring customer satisfaction at all times as well as flexibility in providing the service.

2. Existing hotels, lodges and travel agencies may identify the opportunity to diversify into our intended services utilizing their current client database. Naturally, existing clients will be inclined towards utilizing these familiar companies due to the fact that a good relationship may have already been nurtured over the years during their business dealings. This presents a potential challenge to us, as we need to aggressively market our services and expertise in the field.

Service Description

Forty Travels SA intends to offer the service and knowledge a discerning leisure traveller seeks whilst on vacation, with the intention of seeing and appreciating the numerous sights in the area. Keeping in mind the comforts of a tourist, our fleet shall be very well maintained and designed as per customer standard and expectations. 

Technology

Forty Travels SA will strive to ensure that it contains the latest, or extremely recent personal computer including relevant software so as to ensure that the company is continuously at the forefront in our market area. The one certainty in our industry is that technology will continue to evolve and develop, changing what we market as well as how we market it. Our aim will be to be aware of the implications of this new technology and utilizing it in our existing framework where possible. 

Future Services

In putting the company together, we have attempted to offer enough services to allow us to always be in demand by our clients. The most important factor in developing future services/products is market need. Our understanding of the needs of our target market segments shall be one of our competitive advantages. It is critical to our effort to develop the right new services. In the future, Forty Travels intends to broaden its coverage by expanding into additional markets. One of the main services it aims at providing is to become a destination management company that brings alive the magnificence of a variety of destination to the traveller. This will be done by co-coordinating the traveller’s entire experience from hotel bookings, tours, greeting and porter services, and to tour packages and incentives. However, in doing so we will strive to ensure that it is compatible with the existing products and company personnel.