travel agents

Is It Better To Use a Travel Agent or Plan Your Own Vacation? - Go Banking Rates Depending on how you approach travel, putting together the pieces of a trip can be exciting, or exhausting. Some people love the thrill of finding the best deals on airfare, hotels and destinations, while others...

How Travel Agents Have Changed Throughout the Last Decade - Travel Pulse Ten years ago, the U.S. was just emerging from the Great Recession. A lot has changed since then, and so have travel advisors. In large part, those changes have to do with technology. Although the doomsayers predicted it...

A World Of Knowledge: Reasons Why Smart Travelers Need Smart Travel Agents - Forbes A few years back, I owned a travel agency in the small town in which I live. As small towns are, just about everyone knew me and knew that I had a travel agency. An acquaintance called one day and said that she...

Travel Agents Can Score You Hotel Upgrades, Better Flights, and Free Beer — and They're Surprisingly Inexpensive - Money Confession: I’ve got wanderlust. I feel like every single person on my Instagram feed is winding down the summer in an exotic locale, and I’m so jealous I refuse to give even...

13 Insider Secrets From Travel Agents That Will Save You Money - Go Bankinng Rates Tactics to score savings on airfare, hotels, cruises and more. Whether they’re contemplating a dream vacation or a budget business trip, travelers have an abundance of information and tech tools at their...

What Should Travel Agents Post on Social Media? - Travelmarket Report Nearly 90 percent of travel agents told Travel Market Report that social media is important to their marketing plans, populating their clients’ and prospects’ timelines and newsfeeds with pictures from far-away destinations...

Experience Designers—Not Travel Agents—Will Plan Your Next Trip - Bloomberg New travel company Prior wants to be a modern-day Explorers Club. The thing that’s most broken about travel planning, says 35-year-old David Prior, is that in the era of social media, it’s too easy to see the film...

More Americans—Including Millennials—Seeking the Expertise of Travel Agents - AAA The vast majority of Americans (75 percent) would consider working with a travel agent to plan their vacations, while some 27 million travelers plan to do so just within the next year, according to new research...

In The Land Of Travel Agents, The Tables Have Turned - Forbes Perhaps you still think the travel agent is a profession on the decline, and you are doing your agent a favor each time you call, text or email instead of going direct. When you get their recommendations back you reply with a...