| Home based and traditional travel agents are set to | | | | the amount they pay agents for getting them |
| increase their revenue when booking London bound | | | | customers. |
| vacations and flights for their clients. | | | | Many ordinary travellers may think it's just them that |
| Various travel suppliers are springing up and bringing | | | | are being squeezed by airlines by being charged for |
| out add-on travel products and services that travel | | | | luggage and other things that were once free. |
| agents can sell to prospective clients going to London. | | | | But in many respects it's the ordinary home based |
| This type of add-on sale and in fact the add-on | | | | and traditional travel agent that is really being |
| travel market in general is increasing as more | | | | squeezed. For example many agents earn less than |
| travellers seek destination specific activities and | | | | $20 for flight bookings they make for their clients |
| services. | | | | and some agents earn a lot less than that. |
| London especially seems to be leading the way with | | | | Home based and traditional travel agents often voice |
| up to half a dozen companies offering these type of | | | | concerns that they should be paid better for the |
| add-on products and services to travel agents. | | | | work they do. Add-on products and services are an |
| This new add-on travel market could well help | | | | answer to that call as they generally earn agents a |
| reverse the fortunes of many Home based and | | | | lot more money than say a flight or car hire sale. |
| traditional travel agents who over the last few years | | | | If home based and traditional travel agents are to |
| have seen a steady decline in their revenue. Many | | | | survive into the future they will need to get more |
| have gone to the wall while others have had to work | | | | innovative in what they do and what they sell. Finding |
| harder just to stay afloat. | | | | travel products and services to sell as add-ons to the |
| One of the main problems agents have been facing is | | | | original sale could be a way forward and provide |
| that tour operators and airlines have greatly reduced | | | | agents with another stream of revenue. |