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Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in
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this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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Coronavirus is not mentioned, but had some impact on the travel industry as well.
Travel agents don't provide any value in modern day. You don't get a price discount, booking trips online is easier than paying taxes, plus influencers show people where to stand in line to eat and take pictures. It's sad I used to love to travel but the world has gotten a lot smaller and generic. The fake plastic corporate capitalism has done to the earth what they did to Christmas.
My travel agent i can call / email / text during a trip and theyre able to pivot and get me different flights or rebooked so incredibly fast. It has come in amazingly helpful when flights gets cancelled or extended delays. Paying someone you trust to take care of your travel arramgements in advance and live is a nice luxury.
As long as they’re a good agent. I did a trip this year with my aunt, she booked through a travel agent who was absolutely useless. Messed up a couple of reservations which made the whole thing way more stressful than if I’d just managed it myself.
Yeah bro I can pivot and get a different flight 24hrs and a day right from my phone before talking to a third party. You're situation sounds awesome in the 1990s though.
Travel other places. The world is big.
I been everywhere except antarctic, Russian, India, and central Africa. I'm good thanks.
Have you been everywhere, or just at the "sights" and in major cities?
My most memorable holiday was a 4 week hiking and camping trip all within 50 miles of my home.
Visiting a friend's family in their tiny Eastern Polish village was a close second.
Third would be traveling the length of Patagonia using only public transportation.
The touristy trips to Thailand, the USA and the European capitals don't even make the top 10.
Really you enjoyed not being by people the most and visiting friends and family the next most? You don't say! I'm shook! /S