Actually, a good number of agency owners/founders are women. Valerie Wilson owns one of the largest travel agencies in the US, although her daughters now handle a good portion of the day-to-day business. Another is Priscilla Alexander (ProTravel founder, now retired). There’s a great article online somewhere about…

My boss changes his flight so frequently that it would be impossible to book tickets for him without being connected to Sabre, so we always use a travel agent.

Yeah, pretty much every larger corporation that does regular business travel uses travel agents. If you have to get 5 people from NYC to Chicago, arrange accommodations, book transportation to and from a venue, and potentially make reservations for client dinners, it’s 100x easier to use a third-party travel agent…

I dealt with our corporate travel agent A TON for my very out of the ordinary for my position business trip. I loved the flexibility to look at things in writing on line on my own time to make decisions on flights and such, but still had 24/7 access to a live human being to answer questions or solve emergency problems…

My company uses a travel agent to book all of our travel too. It can be an enormous time saver for assistants whose employers travel all the time, or for an assistant who supports multiple people. It also helps a lot to have all the receipts in one place when you’re reconciling expenses as well. They’re enormously…

My company uses a travel agency for all our business travel.