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AboutAnywhere.com Responds to Backlash of Outraged Travel Agents Regarding Objective to Eradicate Commissions in Hotel Industry
January 30th, 2009
With the emergence of the "virtual" or Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) came speculation and concern over the "death" of the brick and mortar travel agency community. Such a metaphoric death would leave many travel agents without employment and the travel industry without an integral part of its foundational infrastructure. The main issue that the team at http://www.aboutanywhere.com/ [AboutAnywhere.com] has studied is the high commissions hotels are required to pay OTAs. The original intention of the travel agent commission was to compensate the agent for sending a customer to a particular hotel. That process evolved into customers referring to an OTA and searching for a...
Source: Health Business Week (2009-01-30)
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