Tour Operator

Talk to clients, book flights and hotels and keep everybody happy.

Duration: 45 – 90 min
Number of players: 2 – 4
Material: boardgame + individual boards (needs space)
Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/239930/tour-operator

Short description

You are a tour operator with an office, a plane and a hotel to maintain. Every turn you get new customers in your office who want to go on a holiday. To transfer them you need fuel for your plane and clean seats. In your hotel you need clean rooms. Different customers have different demands and you try to keep them all happy. For each happy customer you get points.

Educational Value

In this game is all about supply and demand, with customer demand and managing your business.

Recommendation for use

The nice artwork in this game helps you empathize with your role. The symbols of the cards of the employees are not always clear. The publisher wrote an explanation for each card: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/175971/card-clarifications

Tips and tricks

  • Because the game takes an amount of turns it can start to feel like a repetition. Choose to shorten the game to an amount of turns or a pre-arranged time.
  • Make teams and let teams decide their actions.
  • This game gives a lot of topics to talk about later on in class.

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