definition
strict definition
travel agency
A service location where travel planners arrange transportation, accommodation, tours, cruises, or related travel services.
A travel agency is a service area where persons expert in making travel arrangements sell various travel tickets, secure hotel arrangements, plan tours and cruises, and handle many other travel-related services for their customers.
The service can combine transport and accommodation arrangements with planning of the trip. The agency itself need not operate the vehicles or hotels it books.
Ticket sales identifies a place specializing in admission or passage tickets. A travel agency can offer those sales within a wider travel-planning service.
