The article is devoted to research on new trends for the Russian market of tourism, dynamic packaging of tours. The dynamic packaging of tours refers to the formation of tours in real time on the same site under the request of a particular user with the updating of prices and places. In contemporary science the concept of dynamic packaging is not designed and is not adequately reflected in the writings of scientists, despite the fact that in the period of crisis and changes of the business models of interactions on the tourism market, innovative forms of relations can have a positive impact as on individual entrepreneurs, as on the industry as a whole. Based on the foregoing, the main objective of the study is the analysis of the applications of dynamic packaging in the Russian tourist activities. On the basis of this analysis there have been identified four types of companies that use the dynamic packaging of tours on the Russian market: 1) companies which use dynamic packaging to extend the range of their services, 2) companies which use dynamic packaging as a basis for their activities: foreign tour operators which work entirely online and for which dynamic packaging is the tool of activities, and finally, global distribution systems, which due to their powerful platform of online booking, use the dynamic packaging of tours to attract new customers and increase sales. The article concludes about the benefits of dynamic packaging in the modern Russian conditions for business and consumers, and the industry as a whole.
Analysis of traditional Global Distribution Systems vs. New Distribution Capability
