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Travel Agents

This extensive archive provides up-to-date news, trends, and insights relevant to travel agents, including travel advisors, travel agencies, at-home agents, and firms of all sizes. Designed for professionals working in the travel industry, these news stories offer valuable information on the evolving landscape of travel services and distribution channels. Stay informed about the latest developments affecting travel advisors, from technology advancements to client relations and best practices and gain insights into the growing importance of personalized service and how advisors are adapting to the changing demands of their clientele in a competitive market.

Business Travel

Singapore’s Old-School Travel Agencies Struggle While Innovators Thrive

Over 100 travel agencies have ceased operations in Singapore in the first six months of the year. But a closer look shows the trade is not dying; it is renewing.

Singapore’s Old-School Travel Agencies Struggle While Innovators Thrive

Business Travel

Travel Journalists Pivot to Custom Luxury Travel Planning

Another high-end, membership-based travel consultancy opens up shop. We wonder how these businesses will distinguish themselves as competition grows in the realm of "curating bespoke experiential localized" travel.

Travel Journalists Pivot to Custom Luxury Travel Planning

Cruises

Millennials Now Enjoy Cruising More Than Boomers

After years of talking up the importance of attracting millennials and families to cruising, it appears cruise lines are leaving them with a positive impression of their time onboard when they do choose a cruise vacation.

Millennials Now Enjoy Cruising More Than Boomers

Business Travel

The Travel Agents Rethinking the Brick and Mortar Retail Experience

There are vastly fewer retail travel outlets now than two decades ago, but a few creative agents are rethinking how to buy and sell travel in the real world.

The Travel Agents Rethinking the Brick and Mortar Retail Experience

Business Travel

Isolation Is the Next Big Thing in Luxury Travel

Silence is indeed golden and isolation comes at a premium as well for luxury travelers who really, really want to get away.

Isolation Is the Next Big Thing in Luxury Travel

Business Travel

Flight Centre Invests $7 Million for Stake in Leading Argentinian Booking Site

Can a legacy brand like Flight Centre really transform itself and get more digital and global? The company is making the investments and acquisitions in people and technology to do so. Will the strategy be successful? It will take a few years to find out.

Flight Centre Invests $7 Million for Stake in Leading Argentinian Booking Site

Business Travel

Travel Agents and the Power of Word-of-Mouth Recommendations

Break through the travel recommendation bubble with a good old-fashioned human expert.

Travel Agents and the Power of Word-of-Mouth Recommendations

Travel Agents

The Travel Agent of the Future May Be the Travel Agent of the Past

Travel agencies are using digital education tools to reach the new generation of agents. More valuable could be back-end innovations that make life for agents more fun than figuring out dated computer systems.

The Travel Agent of the Future May Be the Travel Agent of the Past

Business Travel

Venezuelan Travel Agencies Get Creative in Reinventing Themselves After Very Tough Year

Venezuelan travel agencies have refocused their strategies to face the economic crisis. The shift has not been enough to boost the business, which shows no signs of recovery.

Venezuelan Travel Agencies Get Creative in Reinventing Themselves After Very Tough Year

Travel Agents

Apple Leisure Group Will Likely Continue Growth After Sale

It's one thing for a private equity group to own many fragmented hotel and travel assets. It's another to own a distribution platform to sell those products. Apple Leisure Group's new owners have to feel good about leveraging the company's scale and using its resources to help increase the viability of its existing assets.

Apple Leisure Group Will Likely Continue Growth After Sale