География и геология / 1.Регионоведение и региональная организация общества

I. M. Dovgun

P. D. Cherniakova

National University of Food Technologies, Kyiv, Ukraine

Wedding tourism

Travel industry tries to satisfy all the demands of its customers. Wedding tourism is especially popular among young people. Wedding ceremony is interpreted differently. Wedding ceremony is a ceremony accompanied by marriage. Everyone wants to make this celebration the most vivid, massive and unique.

Precisely a travel company can become a great assistant as it is able to organize a honeymoon and satisfy all clients’ desires. The main task for a travel company consists of tour organizing, considering the financial possibilities of the clients, their desires, tastes and fantasy.

Nowadays a honeymoon package usually means going on a honeymoon; it can also be a wedding abroad in conjunction with the honeymoon. Earlier wedding ceremonies in most cases were carried out at home of the honeymooners. Today such ceremony can be held without any problems in any corner of the planet where only the newlyweds wish.

Such tours are distinguished by the best romantic hotels, luxuriously decorated rooms. The program of the tour includes the organization of a romantic dinner on the beach for the couples, different cruises and yacht trips and so on. It also includes breakfast in the room. Depending on the wishes of a young couple, travel companies organize a special route.

Some foreign hotels create special rooms for honeymooners. In most European hotels newlyweds are served a bottle of champagne in their room, and the room is embellished with red and white flowers. In Eastern countries on the eve of the wedding the bride and groom can do a special massage. In contrast to the conventional tours honeymoons are organized differently.

Honeymooners can enjoy special rooms organized for meetings, banquets and all of these activities are filmed by an experienced photographer. The main task for a travel company is that the newlyweds can get everything they order. Very often the newlyweds abandon traditional schemes of the wedding ceremonies. In such cases they fly thousands of miles and organize their wedding according to the canons of the exotic world.

A multidisciplinary travel company should have at least one manager, who specializes in wedding tours, and the product should be reflected on its Internet website, in various publications about the company and its directories.

Honeymoon tour is different from the usual tours by such aspects:

1. A special choice of the country where there are the most unusual and scenic spots.

2. Honeymoon package is organized by an experienced firm.

3. A special choice of accommodation; for young couples it can be a romantic hotel.

Travel agencies, which organize honeymoons, can offer its customers the following options for tours:

1. The official ceremony and the wedding ceremony;

2. A symbolic wedding ceremony;

3. Romantic honeymoon.

Today there is a list of countries where anyone can easily organize a wedding ceremony. In contrast to formal, informal ceremonies are held almost everywhere. This kind of travelling the newlyweds choose when they want to celebrate the anniversary of their wedding. In some cases young couples choose exotic and memorable tours.

Quite a large number of young couples go on a honeymoon to Europe where they can meet interesting and cultural wedding ceremonies and rites. But the majority of the couples still prefer to register the relationship in their own country and they travel in foreign countries when they go on their honeymoons.

They can rush in solar Cyprus, holiday in Venice, the romantic Italy and France, mysterious Tibet and Thailand, and even Cuba and Africa.

Wedding tours organizers for the newlyweds provide tours which are divided into the following categories:

Urban wedding tours. Here you will be able to visit cities such as London, Venice, Rome, Paris, Prague, Berlin and many other unforgettable cities of the world.

Beach vacation. In this case the travel agency will provide you with tours which begin at the resorts in Egypt and Turkey, the Canary Islands of the Bahamas.

Rest in the mountains. In most cases it is a romantic getaway in small private hotels in the mountainous regions of Austria, Italy, France or Switzerland. There are also some mountain resorts in Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia which are characterized by the fact that there are quite democratic prices.

Wedding “travel”. These doped with adventure tours include vacation on the island of Crete and Greece. Here you will be able to combine a beach holiday and small travel, where you will meet incredible mountain scenery and charming nature.

Mixed views. These tours include tours to the United Arab of Emirates. Here a young couple give little opportunity to soak up the scorching rays of the sun, and at the same time they will be able to explore an exotic country, so different and affecting all their wealth.

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4. http://honeymoon2day.com.ua/ru/info/sy_weddings/Maldivy/.

5. http://www.bvitourism.com/destination-weddings.