Too sad?

Tony_H wrote:What's a travel agent?

A travel agent is a private retailer or public service that provides tourism related services to the public on behalf of suppliers such as airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, and package tours.
In addition to dealing with ordinary tourists most travel agencies have a separate department devoted to making travel arrangements for business travelers and some travel agencies specialize in commercial and business travel only.
There are also travel agencies that serve as general sales agents for foreign travel companies, allowing them to have offices in countries other than where their headquarters are located.

I would hazard a guess that Tony knows that.

Think he was expecting the sarcastic reply of, 'no need to use one of them, they rip you off and are no use....'

Quality response Snappzzzzzzzzz

I have to admit I didn't know all that, Snapzzz, about travel agents :oops:

That was most impressive, as Stewart Dowling said :)

Let's hope this particular travel agent does a good job :D

My travel agent happens to be excellent. She is a mother from the pony club to which I am secretary. She has arranged several great trips for me already. I expect I could do it cheaper if a trawled the Internet and booked all components separately but to be honest I have a very stressful busy job work a stupid amount of hours and really don't have the time. Thank you Snappzz for the forum education service you provide. :-) -)

AllyG wrote:I have to admit I didn't know all that, Snapzzz, about travel agents :oops:

That was most impressive, as Stewart Dowling said :)

Let's hope this particular travel agent does a good job :D

I reckon.it was a simple Google search for the definition?

Travel agents in my experience save a lot of time and pain. I would never rule them out

Admin wrote:
It has become an issue in France and has been stopped by a lot of operators there; as a result of the ESF suing LeSki recently!

The situation seems to have moved on:
http://www.planetski.eu/news/4683