Sentences with phrase «own travel agent»

Travel + Leisure's Jacqueline Gifford explains when the wisdom of a travel agent could be valuable.

Travel agents can also, for example, work their industry connections to secure an upgraded room with an ocean view or the best cabin on a cruise.

I was so frustrated, envious, and determined that I decided to observe everything and pose questions to everyone — including travel agents, flight attendants, captains, and any frequent flier I could approach.

Of those, only 6 percent could be booked online cheaper than with a travel agent.

Travel agents — When was the last time you talked to a travel agent?

Although the incident comes at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise bookings, a period known as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.

If they pay the higher rate, they get to handle half the bookings that come through TripAdvisor, with the rest going to other online travel agents who participate in the program.

«We were finding that travel agents were able to get better fares and routes and do it quicker than we were,» she says.

Costing $ 100 for two people in cities like Bangkok and $ 225 at London Heathrow, Solve's service has appealed to business travelers and older travelers using travel agents, Vess says.

«Many people think that you only need insurance if you are going abroad, but travel insurance can be applied [to] any type of trip and can easily be purchased either through your travel agent if you are working with one — or you can do it yourself with companies like AIG Travel Guard or Travelex.»

But a growth - oriented new owner will want to add Internet advertising and build relationships with U.S. travel agents (since only about 30 % of visitors now come from the States).

In conversations with a half - dozen travel agents and celebrity - event producers who specialize in destination weddings, honeymoons, and celebration trips, one thing became clear: You can create a private, romantic experience for your loved one anywhere under the sun — even in the Pope's private garden — if you're willing to pay for it.

The destinations on travel agents» lips earned stood out for their seclusion — Antarctica, the Maldives — and unplugged experiences in the great outdoors (Nepal, South Africa).

A travel agent on Guam said they haven't had a surge of customers seeking to book flights off the island.

Anticipating the eight largest trends for 2017, the CLIA highlighted rising interest from millennials and generation X travelers, increased use of travel agents and more demand for river cruises as the top three to watch.

I'm talking about jobs you might actually have right now, like an air traffic controller, an insurance examiner, or a travel agent.

It's the passengers, it's the crew, it's the travel agents, it's everything,» the CEO said.

The traditional travel agent is one of the most visible jobs disintermediated by the Internet.

Travel Agents.

Brewer imagines a properly enabled travel agent saying.

As Gillian Gibson, a GDS executive on the panel, admitted, many travel agents still work on the sort of green screens that wouldn't look out of place on the set of the movie War Games.

This means the basic relationship is between the GDS and the travel agent, and it's not one that the well - rewarded travel agents, especially in these tumultuous times, have any motivation to go changing.

Booking a business trip used to be a much bigger deal than it is today and involved actually picking up the phone and interacting with travel agents.

Mexican officials have said tourism has been unaffected — and one San Diego travel agent said the region was still appealing as a quick getaway from Southern California — even with the increase in violence during the first half of this year.

Though Saber doesn't see realtors going the way of travel agents, «I do expect they'll have to significantly adjust their business model and their sales model and their strategy model and their service model.»

That's pretty handy for on - the - road managers who don't have a staff of assistants and travel agents working out these sorts of details for them.

Imagine a personal travel agent or assistant in your pocket.

If it turns out to be right, that means most check - out clerks and truck drivers, warehouse workers and even lawyers will soon go the way of travel agents.

Two decades ago, the only way to book a flight was to call a travel agent, a middleman whose job was to connect you with vendors.

Seeing the financial opportunity in the fledgling medium, he executed an aggressive acquisition strategy, eventually branching into newspapers and other fields — retail, insurance, travel agents, oil.

Turns out, travel agents on TripScope can give you the best prices for everything, find you deals and perks and they get paid through the vendors - not the traveler.

She started out as a travel agent (yes, they still exist) planning trips for millennials when she realized there was a need for things to be easier.

The beauty about traveling is that you can be your own travel agent.

This is true not just in basic jobs like bank tellers and travel agents, but also advanced professions like medicine, law and creative work.

The main clients to the business includes all Airline companies, Cell phone companies, also travel agents, insurance agents plus many more can subscribe to the services.

The software helps controls staff activity in simplified form, a useful for many travel agents.

That has happened in some instances, drastically reducing the role of travel agents, for example.

Meanwhile, the arcane content distribution channels, controlled by online travel agents and the global distribution systems that sit behind them (i.e., Orbitz, Travelocity, Sabre, Travelport) had no access to the data that would enable the product differentiation at the point of sale.

Consumers who want to redeem their airline miles for plane tickets may have to do so by calling a travel agent or airline directly.

Educated professionals like scientists and architects could use their skills more productively, while many less - educated workers, like bank tellers and travel agents, saw their jobs being displaced by technology.6 This led to bigger employment shares for high - and low - skilled jobs at the expense of middle - skilled jobs in Canada, along with a modest increase in income inequality.7

Stranding customers in Mexico showed poor customer service and disrespect for travel agents.

The variety of products offered by Tauck allows travel agents to shuffle clients between river, land, and sea adventures, to give them the exact vacations they want.

Earlier this year, Marriott and other large operators began a new effort to attract direct bookings to reduce commissions paid to online travel agents, offering discounts to loyal guests and providing perks such as free Wi - Fi.

Also, your company can use an assigned PerksPlus unique company designator (Tour Code) on tickets booked and ticketed by a travel agent.

For example, individuals will need an IATA number before they can book flights as a travel agent, and they will also need a brokerage registration if they want to become a logistics broker.

Travelink, American Express Travel, is pleased to announce that during the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) Global Convention in Reno - Tahoe on September 27, 2016, the ASTA Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) set its Executive Committee leadership roster and Michael Dixon, President of Travelink was elected by his peers to an Executive Leadership position.

She has worked in the hospitality sector, and has experience as a travel agent, as a corporate travel consultant, and travel agency marketing manager.

It has almost doubled its commission payments to Australia - based travel agents to revive sales there, according to Australian media reports.

Travel agents advertise flights to Mumbai and the Emirates, the Union Bank of India maintains a local branch and the neighbourhood postal outlet flogs a «one - of - a-kind diamond postage stamp.»

The travel agent is the latest U.S. - listed Chinese group to get a buyout proposal from back home.