WHOLESALER Uni-Orient Travel is broadening its focus beyond the inbound sector by expanding its list of destination packages with upmarket tours locally and abroad.
“I’m focusing on inbound but I also want to create a series of tour packages with monthly departures both domestically and internationally,” said Wilson Techico, vice president for business and product development at Uni-Orient Travel.
Apart from launching tours to Russia via China Eastern Airlines, Uni-Orient is also offering options to Turkey, Europe and China with several departures a year, as Philippine travellers are now seeking new destinations beyond their usual jaunts in Asia and the Middle East, according to Techico.
He aims to create unique packages including a series of high-end tours to destinations like Baguio-Sagada and Boracay, leveraging Uni-Orient’s position as a major inbound operator and partnerships with other travel suppliers in the Philippines.
Techico added that Uni-Orient’s year-old B2B portal, U Xplor, is making it easier to develop new destinations. From just 500 hotels in its database, U Xplor now includes over 300,000 hotels worldwide, in addition to land transfers, tours and packages.
With these functions in place, “travel (consultants) are starting to partner with us” and new verticals such as flights may be added in the future, said Techico.
