{"id":22539,"date":"2020-04-08T10:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T10:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/fam-trip\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:22:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:22:03","slug":"fam-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/fam-trip","title":{"rendered":"Fam Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of FAM Trip in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The term FAM stands for Familiarisation. The Tours \u2013 commonly known as FAM Trips \u2013 are trips organised by travel providers (can be a Tour Operator, an Airline, a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-chain\">Hotel Chain<\/a>, a Tourism Board or other DMOs representing a Destination, etc.) with the purpose of educating about their products &amp;amp services and promoting them.<\/p>\n<p>Usually it is dedicated to everyone who is involved in the selling and promoting process of this particular product\/ <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/property\">property<\/a>\/ destination. It typically hosts travel agents and expedients, travel media (writers, journalists, bloggers) and other important players &amp;amp partners.<\/p>\n<p>Creating awareness and at the same time networking and building relationships are the main aims of a FAM trip.<\/p>\n<p>FAM\u00b4s are very important in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>. Basically speaking if the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/travel-agent\">travel agent<\/a> knows and likes your property (and the location), he will book his clients into it. FAM\u00b4s are usually <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/foc-free-of-charge\">FOC<\/a> (free of charge) or available at a discounted fee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/ota\">Online Travel Agency<\/a> (<a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/ota\">OTA<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/foc-free-of-charge\">Free of Charge<\/a> (<a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/foc-free-of-charge\">FOC<\/a>))<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farm Tour<\/li>\n<li>Farm Trip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of FAM Trip in  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fam Trip Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: The term FAM stands for Familiarisation. 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