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19/09/2025

Thinking about booking with a travel agent? Here’s why people are ditching online booking in 2023

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From Trailfinders to TUI, travel agents are opening high street stores to meet demand for face-to-face advice.

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On decimated UK high streets, travel agents are rising like phoenixes from the flames.

To investigate why these once-forgotten institutes are now booming in popularity, I checked out the newly opened Trailfinders shop in Kent, UK.

Once a major retail hub, Tunbridge Wells town center is now lined with boarded-up shops. Even before the pandemicbig brands were evacuating the mall as shoppers increasingly went online.

So how come a brick-and-mortar travel agent – seemingly antiquated in the age of online booking – is now opening up shop?

I spoke to marketing director Nikki Davies to find out.

Travel agents are seeing record-breaking bookings post-pandemic

Instead of putting on the brakes during the COVID-19 pandemic, Trailfinders hit the gas.

In 2020, new stores opened in Winchester and Solihull, followed by York and Cheltenham in 2021. By September, another will open in Southampton bringing their UK store count to 44.

This gamble seems to have paid off.

“We had a record year in 2019 and we’re currently beating that,” Nikki told Euronews Travel in September 2022.

“Basically, it has gone back

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07/05/2025

Bengaluru Travel Agency Couple Scams 9 Victims, Rs 1 Crore Fraud

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Bengaluru: Police are actively searching for a couple accused of duping at least nine people to the tune of over Rs 1 crore by enticing them with promises of lucrative returns on their investments in their travel agency business.

Syed Riyan and Rizwana allegedly defrauded a Goraguntepalya resident of Rs 23.9 lakh over a four-month period, from September to January. They then fled the city.

The RMC Yard police registered an FIR against them under IPC Section 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property).

Preliminary investigations revealed that the couple owned a travel agency on Mysuru Road, offering postpaid tour packages. Using their travel agency as a front, they are suspected of having defrauded nine people.

The couple, who would initially approach the victims through their friends’ circle, would invite them to invest in their business, promising high profits. On securing the investment, the couple would go incommunicado.

A police officer who was part of the investigation told DH that the couple lured the victims into explaining their business model. They would tell the victims that they facilitate postpaid intercity and interstate packages, claiming they had a sizable number of customers opting for the tours.

The couple would then

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