Traveling requires investment of time and money. With these critical investments, travelers must be ensured that they have chosen right travel agency for their travel requirement. A decade back, it used to be easy to pinpoint best travel agency and manage the tours. Now, due to the hyper engagement towards Internet and social media, there are many OTA's mushrooming every day.
Some may be good (no offence), but there are some who are misleading the travelers. To this pool of confusion other niche of agents have evolved, the agency that acts as a mediator between travel agencies and the customer. Sometimes they create a great confusion among the travelers. There might come a point during this entire process that the clients may have to gamble for their tour. If they are lucky they get best travel agency and if unlucky the time and financial investment they made will be a disaster.
Here are some tips below for you so that you chose the right and the best travel agency and will get best out of your investment:
- Please check the website of the travel agency, are they providing tours? are they the decent ones?
- You will have to go a lot deeper than that by going through their Facebook profile. See if they have any live videos of their past clients posted or not. You will have to thoroughly navigate the feedback of the past clients.
- Are they providing you information regarding the tour or are they only talking money? Best travel agency provides the information about the destination travelers are visiting, guide them before their tour and provide smooth co-ordination during their tours.
- Please look at their credentials. Are they government certified? Do they pay taxes? If you have the right one, then your investment will directly help the destination you are visiting.
- Are they proactive? Do they clarify all of your queries or is there always a drop of doubt in their answers? You should get the straight and transparent answers. As travel is an information sensitive industry, the way to judge your travel partner/travel agency is through the amount of information they are providing regarding the tour you are going to book.
These are some important points you will have to follow up before deciding who will be your travel partner when you arrive to the foreign destination. The internet has made travel easy, but also beware, there are many who have abused this information highway to drain the financial resources and the main victims are the travelers. So travelers beware!!!
Martin Wynn
