So i was thinking today how many travel agents are going to be moved out of the hotel market in the next few years. It must be quite scary if you have a bricks and motor business in this industry at the during the current climate. When you think about some of the costs that your average agent is going to have its a wonder more high street agents haven’t gone bust. Everything from rent to staff costs has to be passed on to the customer and in these hard economic times that cant be a good thing.

Things are changing still further with people like expedia getting into the package market too which has always been the agent’s traditional home ground. With the internet population growing by the day its hard to imagine how many of these retailers are going to make a comeback. For many people searching on the net for vacation deals has just become an automatic thing to do, many have never even been in a high street travel agent before and i don’t see this trend changing.