Ever wondered, “Why use a travel agent?” Or a Missionary Travel Agency? I mean, with thousands of travel sites online, can’t I book trips myself? Sure, but there are often over-looked details that could easily ruin your vacation – and you likely won’t pay any more to have a customized trip prepared for you by your very own travel advocate. A travel agent at a Missionary Travel Agency(or travel professional, travel consultant, whatever you want to call them or they want to be called), should know the pitfalls and make solid recommendations based on your wishes and desires for a successful vacation.
And you know what?! You shouldn’t even have to pay a dime more for this elite, concierge service compared to that “internet-only special” that is made to believe may disappear the next minute. So go ahead, try using your travel agent again – the majority of vacations are booked by travel agents. Recent studies show that customers are coming back to travel agents in droves as there is an endless amount of information online and much of it is unreliable. It’s our job to know the trustworthy destinations, ships, resorts, suppliers, seasons & more. Here at MissionTravel.org – we look forward to serving you!
This is re-posted courtesy of columnist Ruthanne Terrero of travelagentcentral.com
1. You’ve Googled “Mexico vacation,” and come up with 17.8 million responses. Need a little help editing those choices?
2. Remember when you used that obscure website to book your hotel, and when you got there you spent your beach vacation overlooking a parking lot?
3. How many hours were you on hold with the airline when your flight was canceled because of a snowstorm?
4. Did you really mean to spend your honeymoon at that resort whose one tiny pool was filled all day with 12 screaming children?
5. Who knew that when you booked that “villa” in Tuscany, it would be a small room with a kitchenette and no air conditioning? Funny, it looked much better on your computer screen.
6. No one explained to you that in July, it’s winter time in Rio, and so you showed up there with nothing but five Hawaiian shirts and three pairs of swimming trunks.
7. How about the time you really needed a restful vacation, and you ended up in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and someone threw up on your shoes?
8. Yes, I guess that hotel must have used a telephoto lens when they took a picture of those guest rooms that you saw on their website.
9. I suppose contacting the Attorney General to resolve the fact that that Internet site has billed your credit card three times instead of once is the only route to take at this point.
10. It was definitely odd that there were no cab drivers at the airport at 3 o’clock in the morning when you finally landed in Costa Rica, but booking a transfer to your very remote hotel would have been a good thing to remember when you purchased your airline ticket and hotel online.
Just a few reasons to consider using Missionary Travel Agency. And there are many more serious ones, just ask…
