Nearly two years after international travel came to a sudden halt, a Halifax-based travel company says Nova Scotians are itching to see the world once again.But instead of focusing on flight routes and fancy accommodations, agents are now becoming experts in the complex restrictions and requirements travelers face when they…
The top 10: Where are they now? The 1992 list was based on 1991 total sales. Most of the agencies who made the Top 50 then were focused on corporate travel. In fact, Liberty Travel was the only one in the top 10 primarily focused on leisure. At the time,…
A Pennsylvania woman was charged Wednesday after allegedly posing as a fake travel agent in a scheme that raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars.Christine Hayes, 38, is accused of stealing money from at least 82 people by tricking them into buying $400,000 worth of vacation deals, according to a…
The divergence in terminology came to a head in 2018 when the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) launched a rebrand that replaced the term 'travel agent' with 'travel advisor,' based on the fact that their roles and responsibilities are no longer simply transactional. Following ASTA's rebrand, ACTA (Association of…
