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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.

Online Travel

RentalsCombined Integrates Live Travel Agents With Property Listings

The idea of integrating service-fee loving travel agents into traveler apps is at least 15 years old, if not older. Still, assuming it solves a real problem for do-it-yourself travel bookers or a hefty segment of them, there is lots of room for improvement and innovation.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Travel Agents

Travel Agents Respond to Lola, the New Agent-Friendly Booking App

Every smart travel agency and consortium has plans to better integrate one-on-one service with mobile technology. But maybe English, with his established tech savvy, can finally crack the perfect formula for bringing agents into the digital age. The hard part will be acquiring customers, especially when using a mobile app as the sole method of client interaction.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Interview: Lola’s CEO Wants to Hack Mobile Trip Planning With Travel Agents

It's a bold idea and the software might turn out to be beautiful (bold and beautiful) but do leisure and business travelers at scale REALLY want to abandon self-booking tools in favor of human travel agent interaction on a mobile app? We are going to find out.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Business Travelers Should Expect More Expensive Flights and Hotels

Savings for travel managers in the car rental space will likely be offset by airfare and hotel room rate increases worldwide.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Skift Versus Magazine: Travel Consultants Vs. Travel Agents

Don't call it a comeback. Travel agents never disappeared; the savvy agents just got serious by re-branding themselves as travel consultants and learning to specialize in what technology companies can't provide: a human touch.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 8 years ago

Business Travel

Domestic Business Trip Spending Has Skyrocketed

A variety of factors have made international business travel cheaper over the last year, but who knows if it will last.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 8 years ago

Travel Agents

Corporate Travel Managers Don’t Trust the Sharing Economy

It's shocking that more corporate travel managers haven't embraced mobile technology and the sharing economy as ways to reduce costs and gain more accurate data on the habits of their clients.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 8 years ago

Travel Agents

Travel Agents Want Commission for Selling Airline Ancillaries

A return to the commission model for agents selling flights is not the solution to the woes of the contemporary retail travel agent.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 8 years ago

Airlines

Airlines and Partners Grapple With What Passengers Say They Want Now

As IATA states in its report, “Airline passengers want what they want. Sometimes they want the same thing. And sometimes they don’t.”

Marisa Garcia, Skift | 9 years ago

Business Travel

CEO of Travel Leaders Group On Emerging Worlds of Corporate and Leisure Travel at Skift Forum

For corporate travelers, there needs to be more transparency and better established roles of responsibility for open bookings. On the leisure side, travel agencies need to be easier to find based on their areas of expertise.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago