If your management team is thinking about:
Q your company’s future
Q a new direction
Q a new venture or investment
Q the future for your markets
Q the impact of special events
….Tourism Futures International is well placed to help you.
We are a research oriented company specialising in the future of aviation, travel and tourism. Our staff understands markets and the management challenges confronting companies that serve these markets.
We have helped airlines and transport companies, airports, accommodation providers and destination agencies in:
Q thinking about the future
Q forecast development
Q business model development
Q scenarios (or futures) that they might confront, and
Q strategy development.
Tourism Futures International has developed a range of databases and tools to assist in these processes. TFI maintains comprehensive databases covering many areas of tourism, airline and freight activity. The TFI database of visitor arrivals into, and resident departures from, the Asia Pacific region, enables the timely publication of regional tables showing latest available data on visitor arrivals by country of origin for fifteen Asia Pacific countries and resident departures by country of destination for six of these countries.
TFI’s Market Simulator allows us to look at the key “drivers” of outbound travel and the implications of change for the tourism industry. The TFI Market Simulator provides a link between outbound and destination markets.
TFI publishes the Asia Pacific, Australasian and Tourism Analysts which are distributed through the World Wide Web to major airlines, tourism authorities, hotels and tourism operators in the region. These publications report on performance, trends and forecasts in key Asia Pacific tourism generating markets and destination regions.
TFI also undertakes consulting in a number of areas:
Ø Airport and airline business planning and forecasting.
Ø Tourist destination planning, forecasting and strategy development.
Ø Strategic assessments, planning and the establishment of strategic management systems for airlines, airports, hotels and tourism operations.
Ø Airline route and aircraft type evaluations.
Ø Benchmarking and performance assessment and management.
Ø Policy development and evaluations.
Ø Economic Impact Assessments.
Ø Market research and forecasting in tourism and travel.
Some of the Clients of TFI and its associated companies:
Q Air New Zealand
Q Air Namibia
Q Australian Government Airport Sales Taskforce
Q Australian Government Air Services Commission
Q Brisbane Airport Corporation Limited
Q BT Funds Management
Q Cairns Port Authority
Q Civil Aviation Authority of Macau
Q Coffs Harbour Airport
Q Commonwealth Bank
Q Dunedin International Airport
Q Dunedin City Council
Q Federal Airports Corporation
Q Gascoyne Development Commission
Q Greater Building Society
Q Hastings Funds Management
Q Infratil/HRL Morrison and Co
Q Internet Travel Group
Q Kinhill Engineers
Q Lend Lease
Q Macquarie Bank
Q Melbourne Airport
Q Newcastle Airport
Q Northern Territory Airports Pty Ltd
Q The Nuance Group
Q Office of Tourism, New Zealand
Q Qantas Airways Ltd
Q Resources Credit Union
Q Rotorua Regional Airport Limited
Q Salomon Smith Barney
Q Singapore Airlines
Q South Australian Tourism Commission
Q Streamliner Supershuttle Pty Ltd
Q Sydney Airport Corporation Limited
Q Tourism Queensland
Q Tourism New South Wales
Q Tourism Dunedin
Q Wellington International Airport
Q Western Australian Department of Transport
Q Western Australian Department of Planning and Infrastructure
Q Western Australian Tourism Commission
Q Westralia Airports Corporation – Perth International Airport
Bob Cain is Managing Director of TFI. For the past 13 years Bob has been a Director and consultant with TFI. He was also Co-Director of BDW Aviation Services during the period 1990 to 1996.
Bob has project managed a wide range of consulting assignments ranging from tourism and freight forecasting, strategy development, policy evaluation and performance management. He has also facilitated strategic planning workshops for government departments, airlines and airports.
Prior to becoming a consultant, Bob was Strategic Planning Director at Qantas Airways where he was responsible for group wide strategic planning and Government affairs. Before joining Qantas, Bob worked in strategic planning and policy roles for State and Federal Government bodies and worked for 6 years in forecasting and marketing roles in the telecommunications sector.
In addition to consulting activities Bob has developed programmes in Strategic Management for the University of New England and for the IT industry through the University of Technology, Sydney. He also developed and taught the subject Service Operations Management for the UTS. This subject was delivered at the University and also within Qantas Airways Limited.
Bob is an active member of a number of industry associations. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport.
TFI supports tourism studies at a number of universities and Bob Cain is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Transport Studies at Sydney University. Bob regularly lectures and presents papers at public conferences and has spoken on issues such as Customer Service, Forecasting and Airport Retailing at Airports Council International and specialist airport conferences.
Bob holds a Science Degree (with Honours) from the University of NSW, a Graduate Diploma in Social Sciences from Stockholm University and a Masters Degree in Economics from Macquarie University.
Contact us at:
Level 3, 1 McLaren Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, AUSTRALIA.
TEL: 61-2-9959 5822, FAX: 61-2-9922 4099
Email: tourismf@tourismfuturesintl.com
Web site: www.tourismfuturesintl.com