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His father Kapil Bhatia started modestly as a sales manager in a travel agency then established his own shop catering to the North Indian market.
Thus a travel agency may guarantee the price of a holiday, but with the proviso that the charter flight can be cancelled if not enough people book.
Last month the Wall Street Journal launched a travel agency.
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The once-mighty Vladivostok fleet, for example, is a tenth its former size, says Sergei Khromykh, a former senior officer on a nuclear armed destroyer who now runs a travel agency.
DB's role in the sale by Metro, a big retailer, of its non-core assets, which galvanised German retailing, and in the sale of Hapag-Lloyd, a travel agency, which did the same for the tourism business.
When enough computers are equipped to do business this way, e-speak becomes a dynamic web of interactions: In the trip to Paris a travel agency might be at the center of the transaction.
But this was a bit of an anomaly as I had built my trip to California around a tourism industry event, a sort of mini-conference, which in turn used a travel agency to book my ticket.
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He and his wife, Ava, who have two children, ran a small travel agency in a suburb north of Phoenix.
Thus, SEE International evolved into what in some respects resembles a fancy travel agency.
Tickets can be bought up to 60 days in advance at Bangkok's Hualamphong Station or through a local travel agency.
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Minoan has been building a sizeable travel agency business under the leadership of former Direct Holidays chief executive Mr Wilson.
The firm's Bridge Street premises is to shut in the summer but a related travel agency, Ocky White Travel, is to continue trading as usual.
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Responsible Travel, a UK-based travel agency selling sustainable holiday packages, reports a 23 percent increase in customers buying trips to Malaysia from 2009 to 2010.
Priceline, a leading online travel agency, provides its customers a broad range of travel products and services such as hotel bookings, airline tickets, car rentals, cruises and vacation packages.
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But nobody uses storefront travel agencies any more, and apparently, Carlson never got control of a major online travel agency.
Travel. (a) Agency travel is important to the effective functioning of Government and certain activities can be performed only by traveling to a different location.
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Entrance to the Building is through a lobby which leads to the Web Travel Agency, a Reading Room and to an elevator to reach the different floors.
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In one study of telecommuting at a Chinese online travel agency, customer-service reps were both happier and more productive when working from home -- probably Yahoo service reps aren't any different from their Chinese counterparts in this regard.
It will also have to sell its controlling stake in Thomas Cook, a mid-sized British travel agency, to calm regulatory concerns.
Some Cuban-Americans like Tessie Aral, owner of a Miami, Florida, travel agency that specializes in trips to Cuba, see the financial benefits of lifting the travel ban.
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The squeezing revenue margin (revenue earned by the online travel agency as a percentage of the dollar size of bookings) has been widely accepted as the fate of this industry going forward.
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"As far as what they're offering the consumer, I think it's fair, " said David Crooks, senior vice president of product and operations at World Travel Holdings, a cruise agency with more than 1, 500 customers affected by the cancellation of the Triumph trips.
Fueled by robust growth in its hotel booking business, online travel agency Expedia posted a 13% increase in gross bookings and a 14% increase in revenues last quarter.
Many delegates suffered traffic delays, and the authorities had to step in after the travel agency which won a tender to arrange hotel bookings offered room-rates up to five times higher than usual.
Mitch Marcus resigned as chief financial officer of Orbitz Worldwide Inc. on Jan. 8, two months after he arrived, in order "to pursue other opportunities, " the online-travel agency said in a regulatory filing.
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Following its spin-off from online travel agency Expedia in December 2011, TripAdvisor, a leading online platform for travel reviews continues to witness rapid top line growth every quarter.
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