A good travel agent is hard to find, almost as difficult as finding a good doctor, dentist or any other service professional. This task is made that much harder as the United States is one such country in which travel agents are not required to have any formal training or registration. Finding a professional is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
A good travel agent will not limit your travel options by any degree. He/she will help you look for great travel and options and help you select the best travel choices for your next holiday or business trip. Look at these three factors when choosing a travel agent:
1. Ability to understand you and your travel needs
A good travel agent will initially ask you a lot of questions, which could include fifteen or more topics of discussion even if your travel needs were as simple as a roundtrip domestic air ticket. Once you become a regular, they will not need to ask you all of these questions every single time. The best type of travel agent is one whose focus is on you and not just on the travel they sell to you.
2. Knowledge
Your travel agent must know more about travel than you do. While some claim to know it all, such claims are absolutely unrealistic. With information available at your fingertips, a travel agent with low knowledge levels on travel is completely unacceptable and obviously not a good choice.
3. General competency
Make sure your travel agent is one of the better ones. Choose a fulltime agent who is bound to be more knowledgeable and experienced in the field.