A travel agency is a business that sells travel related products and services to end-user customers on behalf of third party travel suppliers, such as airlines, hotels and cruise lines. Customers of travel agencies include tourists and business travellers. Some agencies also serve as general service agents for foreign travel companies in different countries.

Purpose

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Travel agencies have been organized mostly since the development of commercial aviation from the 1920s, although Thomas Cook was a notable early, pre-flight pioneer in 1841. The Portuguese company Viagens Abreu is the oldest travel organization, founded in 1840. Some operate with a chain of stores and others are one store operations. A few of the larger travel agencies sell their own products. Agencies without their own product are arguably more impartial and more likely to offer something to suit the traveller; they are known as independent agencies. there are three different types of agencies: these are Multiples, Miniples and independent agencies.

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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:59:32 -0000
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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:36:33 -0000
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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:29:15 -0000
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NYT > Europe

Cheney Backs Membership in NATO for Georgia
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:47:28 -0000
Vice President Dick Cheney was in Georgia, where his words of support placed him on a direct collision course with Russia’s leaders.
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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:09:19 -0000
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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:59:43 -0000
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L.A. Times - Europe

He's just not the same old Roger Federer
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:11:00 -0700
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Vice President Cheney arrives in Azerbaijan
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:12:00 -0700
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Visiting Georgia, Dick Cheney assails Russia
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700
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UN News Centre - Europe

Security Council lauds launch of negotiations in reunifying Cyprus
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500
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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500
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UN sounds alarm on humanitarian conditions in Georgian city
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500
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Europe - International Herald Tribune

Cheney pledges U.S. support for Ukraine
By STEVEN LEE MYERS AND ALAN COWELL Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:33:42 -0000
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Cheney backs membership in NATO for Georgia
By Steven Lee Myers Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:14:02 -0000
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Russia says U.S. fanning Georgian aggression
By Tabassum Zakaria Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:10:26 -0000
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By STEVEN LEE MYERS Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:33:42 -0000
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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:15:48 -0000
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By CLIFFORD J. LEVY Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:33:42 -0000
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