travel agency
noun
: an agency engaged in selling and arranging transportation, accommodations, tours, and trips for travelers
called also travel bureau
Examples of travel agency in a Sentence
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Southwest Airlines has long prevented third-party sites and online travel agencies from selling or even displaying its fares, but as of recent, flights can be bookable through another online channel, Chase Travel.
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Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
The 30-strong operation is more like a members-only club than a conventional travel agency, with a $150,000 initiation fee and annual dues of $25,000.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
Word of the Nicaragua route began spreading early last year in Dakar and took hold in May, said Abdoulaye Doucouré, who owns a travel agency that sold about 1,200 tickets from Dakar to Nicaragua in the last three months of 2023, for the equivalent of several thousand dollars each.
—Baba Ahmed, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2024
That goes beyond the tickets sold in packages by Japan’s largest travel agency.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Since then, luxury entrants like Aman Resorts, Abercrombie & Kent, French travel agency Safrans du Monde, and adventure-travel outfits like National Geographic have been creating ever-more personalized and far-flung itineraries to satisfy the most discerning of guests.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Ousmane Anne, 34, left Senegal on Sept. 25 with a plane ticket to Nicaragua, purchased from a travel agency.
—Baba Ahmed, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2024
Skyscanner, an online travel agency, recently launched the Everything Agency, which offers personalized recommendations from five travelers who have been to every country in the world.
—Passport By Forbeslife, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
In the old days, companies would employ a travel agency to make arrangements for business trips.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
The 30-strong operation is more like a members-only club than a conventional travel agency, with a $150,000 initiation fee and annual dues of $25,000.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
Word of the Nicaragua route began spreading early last year in Dakar and took hold in May, said Abdoulaye Doucouré, who owns a travel agency that sold about 1,200 tickets from Dakar to Nicaragua in the last three months of 2023, for the equivalent of several thousand dollars each.
—Baba Ahmed, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2024
That goes beyond the tickets sold in packages by Japan’s largest travel agency.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
Since then, luxury entrants like Aman Resorts, Abercrombie & Kent, French travel agency Safrans du Monde, and adventure-travel outfits like National Geographic have been creating ever-more personalized and far-flung itineraries to satisfy the most discerning of guests.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Ousmane Anne, 34, left Senegal on Sept. 25 with a plane ticket to Nicaragua, purchased from a travel agency.
—Baba Ahmed, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2024
Skyscanner, an online travel agency, recently launched the Everything Agency, which offers personalized recommendations from five travelers who have been to every country in the world.
—Passport By Forbeslife, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
In the old days, companies would employ a travel agency to make arrangements for business trips.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
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1898, in the meaning defined above
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travel agency
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