Many things have changed with the travel agency and many things have stayed the same.  

Once upon a time, when people wanted to book a trip they went to see the travel agent.

Travel businesses could be found on a high street with heavy pedestrian traffic, the travel agent was the start of vacation dreams for several decades – until a new, flashier kid arrived on the block.

Modern technology has made the life for travel agents and holidaymakers changed forever.

Now, we can go online and find the best deals to suit us, all without paying a hefty arrangement fee to a travel agent.

It’s simple, easy and can be done from the comfort of your living room – but the travel agents aren’t going out of business just yet… so what’s stopping everyone converting to internet holiday booking?

Difference between online  and high street travel agents:

1)  Online  vs Face to face

2)  Do -It-Yourself  vs Done For You

3)  Non-personal touch  vs  Personal Touch

High street conventional travel agents is the face-to-face factor.

With a conventional travel agent, you can sit down and discuss your needs with an actual person, and you can get recommendations as you browse.

The internet loses this personal sense a little, and may explain why some have yet to discover the joys of internet holidays.

The main concern, however, appears to be concerns about internet safety and passenger protection.

Holidays are expensive – that’s a given – and many people just don’t feel comfortable tapping their credit card details in to a faceless computer.

If that’s why you’ve yet to book a holiday online, rest assured.

Use the usual security checks before entering card details, such as a ‘https’ is the web server or a small padlock icon on the address bar – these usually mean a site is security protected, and you’re good to go.

Advantages Of Using A Travel Agent

1)  Trips involving complexity transfers

2)  Booking for more than 2 passengers

3)  Knowledge of better deals  with suppliers

4)  Great incentives given to travel agents to pass on to travelers 

5)  Greater Savings

6)  Time saving

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Estate agents have a worldwide reputation for exaggerating the good points of something they are trying to sell and downplaying the bad – but they’re not alone. This ‘selective editing’ tactic is used by any professional company trying to sell something; the trick is to learn to see through their statements and find the truth.

When it comes to travel agents, it’s all the more difficult to trust them. For a start, unlike when you’re with a Realtor, you aren’t there to view the hotel you will be staying at – so you have to rely totally on what the travel agent says and what the photographs of the hotel suggest. Therefore it’s all the easier to be lead down the garden path, and end up staying in a hotel that makes your entire holiday a misery.

The important thing when it comes to booking a holiday is to give yourself time. Do not be pressurized in to buying a holiday in your first visit to a travel agent; even if they are offer one-day-only exclusives. These deals rotate, so providing you give yourself enough time, there’s no need to snap one up there and then.

Always get the information from the travel agent then go and check the hotel out for yourself online. Look at sites such as TripAdvisor.com, where genuine consumers who have stayed at the hotel give their feedback. This gives a much more objective opinion of a potential destination than a travel agent – with one eye on their commission – ever could.