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Suggest You - Travel Agents-An Endangered Species?
What is success? The answer to that question is both personal and institutional for those of us who work in the business world. In essence, success is the ability to accomplish the task at hand. Technically, it is "to achieve one's aim to prosper".You need thriving business relationships to prosper. In fact, we can measure much of our
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Traditional travel agencies and their agents are fast disappearing from the landscape.
Ironically, this is occurring in the midst of tremendous growth in the largest industry in the world, travel.
It is estimated that the impending retirement of the 1 Billion Baby Boomers worldwide, will explode the volume of business in the industry from $7 Trillion to $14 Trillion over the next 10 years. The oil industry, in comparison, is only $4 Trillion per year.
The problem for the travel industry is that their erstwhile customers now want to see a video of the resort they are interested in, or will be able to check satellite photos and see that the “Plaza del Mar”; allegedly a “seaside” resort; really is a ? mile from the ocean and avoid being ripped off! It is difficult to do that over the phone.
In what appears to be the largest paradigm shift in a major industry in the country’s history, over 250,000 travel agents have lost their jobs over the past 5 years as the automated internet sites like Expedia eat their lunch.
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It is estimated that the impending retirement of the 1 Billion Baby Boomers worldwide, will explode the volume of business in the industry from $7 Trillion to $14 Trillion over the next 10 years. The oil industry, in comparison, is only $4 Trillion per year.
The problem for the travel industry is that their erstwhile customers now want to see a video of the resort they are interested in, or will be able to check satellite photos and see that the “Plaza del Mar”; allegedly a “seaside” resort; really is a ? mile from the ocean and avoid being ripped off! It is difficult to do that over the phone.
In what appears to be the largest paradigm shift in a major industry in the country’s history, over 250,000 travel agents have lost their jobs over the past 5 years as the automated internet sites like Expedia eat their lunch.
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The problem for the travel industry is that their erstwhile customers now want to see a video of the resort they are interested in, or will be able to check satellite photos and see that the “Plaza del Mar”; allegedly a “seaside” resort; really is a ? mile from the ocean and avoid being ripped off! It is difficult to do that over the phone.
In what appears to be the largest paradigm shift in a major industry in the country’s history, over 250,000 travel agents have lost their jobs over the past 5 years as the automated internet sites like Expedia eat their lunch.
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In what appears to be the largest paradigm shift in a major industry in the country’s history, over 250,000 travel agents have lost their jobs over the past 5 years as the automated internet sites like Expedia eat their lunch.
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The big guys see the disintegrating situation in the industry and smell blood. They see the direction the wave is heading and get there before everyone else.
Barry Diller, movie and TV mogul; bought Expedia, the number 1 on-line travel business for $5 Billion in 2001. He subsequently bought Hotels.com and Ticket Master.
Cendant Corporation, a giant conglomerate, bought Orbitz, another on-line travel agency, a couple of years later for $1.2 Billion.
Donald Trump just joined the fray with his own travel company, Go Trump.
Wal-Mart has also developed an on-line travel subsidiary.
Some of the new players are introducing their own variations on the theme.
American Express, the financial giant, is selling their own private label travel websites as franchises, empowering ordinary people to partake of the Internet Travel Boom by purchasing a travel franchi
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