Can Google Flights displace agents?
Amadeus announced in February that it would begin displaying its airline inventory on Google Flights. Industry insiders say that agents should be aware of this development and should not see…
How foreign travel agencies are crippling
•Local firms lose 40% market share By Chinelo Obogo The Nigerian travel industry is under siege, literally speaking. Foreign travel agencies have continued to dominate the market, leaving local operators…
U.S. Travel Agencies Air Ticket Sales Total $9.3 Billion in March 2025
First-Quarter 2025 Sales Narrowly Exceeded Q1 2024 Total ARLINGTON, Va., April 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC) released data showing U.S.-based travel agency air ticket sales reached…
A history of airline commissions: How competition reshaped the travel industry: Travel Weekly
Mark Pestronk Q: Some agencies get very high commissions from the world’s major airlines (sometimes exceeding 10%), but when our small travel agency asks a major airline what commission we…
Low-cost family vacations, the Grimats: ‘For us, traveling is like going grocery shopping’
If in the search bar of TikTok type ‘family’ the first result is the account of the GriMat Family, over 230 thousand followers. Luca Grizzanti, his wife Francesca Mattuzzi and…