Tickets to each screening group are 75 Hong Kong dollars and can be bought from Hong Kong booking agent Urbtix.

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Egham-based Hotels4u.com acts as an online booking agent for hotels, apartments and villas.

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Perhaps it's to be expected in an industry where everyone, from the booking agent to the bellhop, is famously discreet.

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He reached out to the group through their booking agent, and found out they wanted to get a record out in time for their December tour.

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Peek is part booking agent, part tour book.

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When it comes to business travel, where the employer rather than the individual is paying, these incentives often succeed making a booking via an online agent does not preclude a traveller from earning frequent-flyer points or other rewards, for example.

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Travelocity, for one, allows a buyer outside the U.S. or Canada to have any flight booking sent to a travel agent anywhere -- so long as he is a Sabre reservations system user -- to have the purchased ticket issued.

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Just as people got used to booking their own flights, rather than using a travel agent, he thinks more and more consumers will use the Internet to buy and sell homes, rather than a real estate broker -- especially if it saves them commission money.

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Most travellers prefer using travel agents to calling every airline themselves or figuring out how to work the flight-booking services on commercial online services, especially since using an agent costs them no more.

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