Why Use a Travel Professional?

In the technology age of find it quick and easy on-line, you may be thinking, why should I use a travel agent? So to help you answer that question here are our favorite reasons:

1. Who Can you Call?

Chris Elliott has made a career Blog of helping people who book on line and are lost with out help. What would you do if the hotel has lost your reservation? What would you do if the car rental agency has run out of cars? Specifically, who are you going to call? Who's going to help you? The hotel? The car rental company? They don't care. You're just one person. Losing you as a guest or a customer is no big deal. Basically, you're on your own.

If you book through a travel agent, all you have to do is make one simple phone call. And everything will be taken care of. Will the hotel assist your agent? Will the car rental company assist your agent? Of course they will. We can swing market share with one phone call. And the hotel or airline can see the impact we are able to make.

2. It is not just aboutoverall costs:

You look to travel agents to provide the best overall solution to your individual travel needs. Ask questions up front, an agent can and should provide answers. This can include dates, quality or location of accommodation or stateroom, cancellation policy, recreational amenities, the ease of doing business, create your companies travel policy for them. We are the experts. Financial managers know what the company needs, but the agent knows how to save you money if you let them.

3. Show me how I will save money:

Don't balk over a 30.00 fee. Saving money is not just about price. It is more about value. If the hotel was not the right location, if the cruise line was not the right fit for your family, if the golf course was not the right golf course.it does not matter how much you saved. One can save a ton of money and be miserable or spend a little more to be in heaven. A travel agent cansupplymany variedofferings and also provide cost saving for your vacation or your company. Flexibility, booking in advance, working with airlines that provide you value, all can save money. Nobody wants to pay more than necessary we also know what happens if you book a cheap trip, you are miserable.

4. Don't hire someone to surf the web, you are paying them more than your agent!

Trust your travel agent, then you don't need to spend what little free time you have, scouring the web,piecing together-- flights, cars, rooms, etc. In addition, your agent might be working with transfer and car rental companies that you simply don't have access to, and in many cases, even hotels and airlines that you don't have access to. An agent is someone who has taken the time and made the commitment to be the best so you don't have to make planning your vacation a second job!

5. Listen to my favorite story for just a moment:

Your honeymoon is the biggest most memorable vacation of your life. Yet you go on the web and trust a photo. Let your agent assure you of the quality, don't cut costs, cut amount of time if you need to save money. Your chosen package should fit your budget but fulfill your dreams at the same time.

Potential Honeymoon Problems:

On the way there...

• Your flight arrived 6 hours late, it is the middle of the night, the car companies are closed for the evening, your bags are lost, what do you do? who do you call?

On the way home...

Your flight is at 6am, you are 2 hours from the airport with a 2 hour advance check in, the hotel says taxies are not running yet, everything is closed? what do you do?

Physical Results:

•Extra hotel has to be arranged, you lose the first night of your trip and the last night to be close to the airport just to save money

You saved the agency$40 fee on the airfare by booking it yourself

You spent and addition 400.00 on two nights extra hotel, you cannot get the two nights lost back from the resort as you didn't have insurance and it wasn't a covred issue, you now have to find your luggage, replace valuable lost items you are forced to check, and possible purchase luggage to replace the lost or damaged bags, who helps you?

Results, the surface costs were 400.00 higher than your original expenses and there is no determination of how much higher that will be once you figure out how much extra the replacements will run you.

SOLUTION:

A good agent knows how to prevent this from happening, will help you get your money back, will be sure nothing goes wrong within there control. And in the end, that 40.00 fee is priceless