There are lots of travel agencies around us these days, if you are a frequent flyer, a businessman or just love to travel around the world then you must have used the services of some travel agency at some point. A travel agency is basically a retail business that offers products and services related to travel to their customers on behalf of suppliers, such as airlines, cruise lines, hotels, railways, car rentals, package holidays and sightseeing tours. They do offer specialized services for business travelers and commercial tours. Travel agencies make profits by taking commissions from the suppliers whose products they sale. In case of air travel, they usually get discounted airline tickets from the airlines and sell them at the advertised price to their customers and thus the difference between the discounted price and the price at which they sell them to their customers is the profit or commission which a travel agency makes. Here a question arises in our minds that why people go to... (more...)