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 Booking air travel, hotel reservations and organize vacation travel in general has completely changed with the advent of the Internet and many people try to be their own travel agents. Although you can organize apparently most of your trip yourself, you can not do as well as your travel agent in a long term! Travel processions, if your local travel agent, tour operator or destination specialist still have contacts that you as an outsider in the industry have not. As in many other professions, travel agents, whether in a mall near you or online agency, where they are, know something you do not have way book and arrange travel for you so unavailable or unknown to you. Traditionally, you can contact a travel agent and request a quote, if a price of an airline ticket, hotel or vacation package. For the most part travel agents still provide such information, but there is a limit how much information they can not disclose all the information is easily accessible to them. Firstly, most travel agents can indeed be at hand the cost of routine air ticketing, hotel rates or vacation packages available and some will be happy to provide the price information for you instantly when asked. But once your request for travel will be slightly adapted, either to suit your travel dates and your travel preferences of others, to find a relevant answer will be very time consuming. Because of this time element, do not automatically assume an agency is willing to spend the time to provide the information you need when there is no commitment you travel at all. Look at the situations in the following perspective. In the old days, if you had a problem with your car, you drive to your neighborhood mechanic and asked him to see what was wrong with her. You leave the car off at the garage, the mechanic had a look and tell you what the problem was. It would also give you an estimate and it is up to you if you wanted to address them right away and then wait or seek another opinion and another quote. Its services cost you nothing. But no more. These days, no garage, no mechanical car repair is willing to spend time trying to figure out what is wrong with your vehicle without load at least one hour of initial work. Pay and he will watch and tell you. See for yourself if you decide to take your car to another shop, or that the problem, he covered his time to diagnose what's wrong with your car. Similarly, many travel agencies and professionals travel planners and tour operators will charge you a fee for planning travel advance if you request travel arrangements at the outset that much time, or there is no guarantee that what you either book. Whatever you're after are essentially private arrangement s Vacation Packages and there are no simple answers or options to give you, and the only way to know for the agent will dig and check all sources different, it has to elimination, and then present the alternative travel to you to decide. When working with a travel agent, travel planner or other professional travel as a destination specialist knowledgeable, keep in mind that a certain protocol will ensure that you'll not only the type of travel arrangements you want in general, but you'll get a true partner who will always be in your interest if you travel away from home for business or pleasure. 1. First, when you contact a travel agent, either in person or online, please give them your name - do not worry, most agents do not spam you back. Without your name when you request a review more valuable travel agents will not take your calls too seriously. Call if you wish, but most agents prefer not to take notes, e-mail is a way to get an agent to search for a price often means it is time to plug in a name , so both the name will be your real name. If you decide not to accept the booking of the reservation will expire and not hurt. If you later decide to buy the booking agent does not have to rekey it into the system again. 2. If you try to be your own travel agent, even in part, that you plan to book your own hotel online, it communicates to the agent of your call for help, he / she may still be interested in helping you with the rest of your travel arrangements. Do not hide your intentions of the agent as agents do not like being used for information gathering only. 3. If possible, always contact your travel agent or destination specialist as soon as you know when and where you want to travel, no last minute before the scheduled departure. This is even more important when planning a trip to a destination less crowded. 4. Do not book your flights and hotels online and ask a travel agent to do the rest, namely the difficult parts, such as transport links complex travel arrangements in remote areas or segments of the book you just do not feel safe for you to book up online. Give your agent to design and book your entire trip for you. The worst thing you can do is design your own vacation package, then copy and e-mail the same request to see dozens of agents who may be the lowest bidder. Yes, the internet is perfect for this kind of information gathering but look at this point of view of a travel agent. If he / she knows that you send the same request to dozens of agents many of them will not be too interested in doing business with you. Then again, telling them the truth, they will be happy to know what you do and approach the whole thing quite differently and in the end they could not offer you a deal. 5. If you're after booking cost shoe string travel, for example wanting to book the lowest type of accommodation, the better your own travel agent. Do realize that agents can book services that are not simply too cheap to begin with, not to mention that such providers are not paying the agent of any kind of commission. The agent can still help you, but keep in mind he will do a favor and work for you without charge. If so, enjoy it, your e-mail thank you. Do realize that asking a million questions officer, to get all the answers, including time quotes consumption, just for you never to play again and again certainly turn harsh agents completely. If you are polite and respectful of many often work without any commitment from you, give you information you need to work for free. But because of those who siphon info just released agents so they can travel book can be on their own not only leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of the agent, but certainly induces the decision to charge fees to baseline when the next survey comes. 6. On the other hand, when it comes to high end homes keep in mind these hotels routinely offer discounts to agents that agents can markup and still offer you accommodation costs below the published fares hotel . Authentic agent are not interested in selling you an upscale hotel to make a higher commission, but to adapt to a better travel experience for you if it deems desirable. 7. Keep in mind that there is a difference between a travel agent and a so-called Destination Specialist. Most travel agents use online reservation systems on the transport packaging of books, hotel and holidays. It is essentially a book or sell loans to the sale offers a variety of travel suppliers that do not require more than fill your name and dates of travel. When it comes to you needing custom arrangements, they should contact their tour operators and destination specialists who are part of their consortium or network to which they belong. According to their reports, or they will not be able to help. 8. Destination Specialists pride themselves really know their destination. Many of them have not only traveled a lot but I know a particular destination in reverse order that they can arrange travel logistics for you based on knowledge, rather than watching it in a brochure or a type of database. Destination Specialists Many specialize in difficult conditions, routes designed and do not sell travel packages. Often a time but not always what kind of service reflects the higher markup. 9. Finally, please note that many scholars of destination and travel agents work 110 hours or more per week due to travel including custom design is indeed a lot of time. Be good at logistics experience and travel takes everything with the Internet, it seems second nature to be able to arrange your own travel, many travel professionals are indeed very well what they do! They know more about travel than you give them a chance, you can save not only money but also headaches and most importantly, they can ensure not only that you travel without worry, but you can have a Trip of a Lifetime! Keep in mind, a good agent is not after you sell a single ticket or a package, they want you to become a repeat customer, their procession go-to-travel for the rest of your life.