Blueline Tours, Inc., operates tours throughout the United States. A study has indicated that some of the tours are not profitable, and consideration is being given to dropping these tours to improve One such tour is a two-day Historic Mansions bus tour conducted in the southern states. An PROBLEM 12-18 Dropping or Retaining a Tour [LO2) the company's overall operating performance. income statement from a typical Historic Mansions tour is given below: $3,000 900 2,100 100% 30 70% Ticket revenue (100 seat capacity x 40% occupancy X $75 ticket price per person)... Variable expenses ($22.50 per person). Contribution margin.... Tour expenses: Tour promotion... Salary of bus driver. Fee, tour guide.. Fuel for bus.... Depreciation of bus.. Liability insurance, bus.. Overnight parking fee, bus Room and meals, bus driver and tour guide.. Bus maintenance and preparation .... Total tour expenses... Net operating loss. $600 350 700 125 450 200 50 175 300 2,950 $ (850) The following additional information is available about the tour: a. Bus drivers are paid fixed annual salaries; tour guides are paid for each tour conducted ries of mechanics and other service personnel who are responsible for keeping the company's The Bus maintenance and preparation cost on the previous page is an allocation of the sala fleet of buses in good operating condition. c. Depreciation of buses is due to obsolescence. Depreciation due to wear and tear is negligible. Liability insurance premiums are based on the number of buses in the company's fleet. Dropping the Historic Mansions bus tour would not allow Blueline Tours to reduce the num- ber of buses in its fleet, the number of bus drivers on the payroll, or the size of the mainte- e. nance and preparation staff. Required: 1. Prepare an analysis showing what the impact will be on the company's profits if this tour is discontinued. 2. The company's tour director has been criticized because only about 50% of the seats on Blue- line's tours are being filled as compared to an industry average of 60%. The tour director has explained that Blueline's average seat occupancy could be improved considerably by elimi- nating about 10% of its tours, but that doing so would reduce profits. Explain how this could happen. fant Processing Cor