travel agent
noun
: a person engaged in selling and arranging transportation, accommodations, tours, or trips for travelers
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Gone are the days when our holiday choices were limited to destinations featured in travel agent windows or brochures.
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Dana Dunne, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Today, my parents’ generation would be stranded at home, probably staring at the wall as they would be utterly baffled as to how to book a flight or hotel room, having always relied entirely on a cheery travel agent or willing member of staff helpfully at the end of a telephone.
—Louis J. Esterhazy, WWD, 20 Feb. 2025
What's the difference between a travel advisor and a travel agent?
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2025
In the most famous example, travel web sites replaced travel agents.
—Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Dana Dunne, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Today, my parents’ generation would be stranded at home, probably staring at the wall as they would be utterly baffled as to how to book a flight or hotel room, having always relied entirely on a cheery travel agent or willing member of staff helpfully at the end of a telephone.
—Louis J. Esterhazy, WWD, 20 Feb. 2025
What's the difference between a travel advisor and a travel agent?
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2025
In the most famous example, travel web sites replaced travel agents.
—Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for travel agent
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“Travel agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/travel%20agent. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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