Sentence examples for small tour operators from inspiring English sources

The island's main drag (there are no official names or street signs) is chockablock with small tour operators, dive shops and boatmen who arrange trips to the nearby reef and to somewhat more distant marine parks and island atolls.

But while new lodges are welcomed for the construction and service jobs they bring, small tour operators and wilderness advocates fear that much of the state's tourism is being ceded to foreign-owned interests.

Voted one of the top five small tour operators by Guardian and Observer readers in the 2009 Travel Awards, Saddle Skedaddle organises road cycling and mountain biking holidays mainly in Europe plus a few long-haul destinations.

But not small tour operators.

Next departure 23 June 2012 SMALL TOUR OPERATOR: McKINLAY KIDD 0844 804 0020, mckinlaykidd.co.uk This self-drive culinary tour of the west coast of Scotland is based around three small, food-focused hotels.

The authors of the 1994 Good Skiing Guide admitted that Andermatt didn't really warrant an entry since so few Britons – and just one small tour operator – went there, and noted that "on arrival the visitor's first sight is of a bleak barracks".

But while some firms are beginning to cotton on to the potential, it is mainly limited to the smaller tour operators, and inertia seems to be stopping the holiday giants from acting.

Ms. Mikana-Pinkham, who is also friendly with many of the smaller tour operators — who like Ms. Billger run only a few trips a year — traces the birth of sacred travel as a business to the Harmonic Convergence of 1987, a widely publicized New Age event that supposedly corresponded with a great shift in the earth's energy from warlike to peaceful.

To deliver this, the company works with more than 600 large and small local tour operators across Europe, Asia, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand.

For instance, small specialist tour operator Inntravel finds that customers return time after time because complicated walking itineraries are such a pain to organise yourself.

"Goaway is a small, specialist tour operator with many of its staff born in Goa, so we have local contacts and can therefore get the keenest prices," says Ravi Khurana of Goaway.