[Travelandtourism] TOP 10 REASONS TO USE A TRAVEL AGENT

[cheryl echevarria]

Top 10 Reasons to Use a Travel Agent
July 07, 2008 By: Ruthanne Terrero TravelAgentCentral 4.583335
Here's an open letter to your prospective clients who are debating whether 
to use a live travel agent to book their vacation or to go it alone by using 
the Internet.

1. You've Googled "Mexico vacation," and come up with 17.8 million 
responses. Need a little help editing those choices?


2. Remember when you used that obscure website to book your hotel, and when 
you got there you spent your beach vacation overlooking a parking lot?


3. How many hours were you on hold with the airline when your flight was 
canceled because of a snowstorm?


4. Did you really mean to spend your honeymoon at that resort whose one tiny 
pool was filled all day with 12 screaming children?


5. Who knew that when you booked that "villa" in Tuscany, it would be a 
small room with a kitchenette and no air conditioning? Funny, it looked much 
better on your computer screen.


6. No one explained to you that in July, it's winter time in Rio, and so you 
showed up there with nothing but five Hawaiian shirts and three pairs of 
swimming trunks.


7. How about the time you really needed a restful vacation, and you ended up 
in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and someone threw up on your shoes?


8. Yes, I guess that hotel must have used a telephoto lens when they took a 
picture of those guest rooms that you saw on their website.


9. I suppose contacting the Attorney General to resolve the fact that that 
Internet site has billed your credit card three times instead of once is the 
only route to take at this point.


10. It was definitely odd that there were no cab drivers at the airport at 3 
o'clock in the morning when you finally landed in Costa Rica, but booking a 
transfer to your very remote hotel would have been a good thing to remember 
when you purchased your airline ticket and hotel online.
Cheryl Echevarria
Independent Travel Consultant
http://Echevarriatravel.com
1-866-580-5574

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