How to Use travel agency in a Sentence

travel agency

noun
  • Khan went to a travel agency and found a scene of panic.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Since 1955, the travel agency has sent hundreds of thousands of tourists to Africa.
    Michael Cottman /, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Instead, your airline and travel agency just played a game of pass the buck.
    Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Jean-Loup Chrétien’s 1982 Soyuz flight was perhaps the first in which a trip to space was sold as if through a travel agency.
    Konstantin Kakaes, Slate Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Condor was caught up in the collapse of its owner, Thomas Cook, the large British travel agency.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The victims were part of a group of youths, ages 20-25, who had booked a five-day vacation through a travel agency.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2020
  • The group operates travel agencies and hotels in a scenic area on the border.
    Joanne Chiu, WSJ, 18 June 2019
  • Even though the law requires a prompt refund, the airlines and travel agencies have figured out a way around it.
    Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Michael and Robbie Phillips were from Maryville, Tennessee, and were the owners of a travel agency.
    Jordan D. Brown, USA TODAY, 29 June 2022
  • Cramped in Carmen’s tiny house with her three sons, Griselda isn’t content to work the front desk at her friend’s travel agency.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • No, this isn’t a cheesy tag line for some nearly defunct travel agency.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Online travel agencies may save you money in a few ways.
    Katie Seemann, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Outside of that, there is no dialogue in the office as the everyday work of the travel agency plays out on stage.
    Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • That goes beyond the tickets sold in packages by Japan’s largest travel agency.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Gutowski: In the packet were bank records, a drawing, and court documents from the dispute with the travel agency.
    Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Philip is out of the spy business, focusing on running the travel agency that has served as a cover for the Jennings.
    Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • More than half of travel agencies' bookings come through Sabre, prompting airlines to work with it.
    Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Clarksville's trip is organized through EF Tours, a student travel agency that runs school tours and trips abroad.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 28 Feb. 2020
  • People pay to use the bathroom at a pharmacy or travel agency across the street and to shower at a hotel on the corner.
    Elliot Spagat, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • And the manager of the market also has a connection to a travel agency.
    CBS News, 5 Aug. 2020
  • An officer there said that five travel agencies and about 100 fans in Chongqing had been cheated out of tickets by Anzhi Msk.
    Mike Ives, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • Both the bank and the travel agency earn commissions from the sales, said the person, who asked not to be named discussing internal bank business.
    Fortune, 18 May 2018
  • Sofía grew up traveling—her mother ran a high-end travel agency in Buenos Aires.
    Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 29 May 2021
  • Lynn Scott-White returned to her travel agency job at pay 10% more than her pre-pandemic salary.
    Wsj Staff, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2021
  • The 27-year-old Zarifi, who runs a travel agency and a property company, put Scroll.in in touch with Salek.
    Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Ilir Sylmetaj said his brother, Naser, had been driving for two decades and for the last year worked with the travel agency that organized the bus trip.
    Star Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • Ousmane Anne, 34, left Senegal on Sept. 25 with a plane ticket to Nicaragua, purchased from a travel agency.
    Baba Ahmed, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Beyond by Airbnb shows the company’s ambition to be more of a full-scale travel agency.
    Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Salem, who was traveling with his wife, had been promised by a representative of the Egyptian travel agency that a bus would be provided to transport the group.
    Magdy Samaan, CNN, 25 June 2024
  • Travelers can book with luxury travel agencies like cazenove+loyd for special perks, like a complimentary castaway picnic experience with a seven-night stay.
    Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2024

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