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Local News - Local News - June 05, 2009 |
By Jeanne Gustafson
Of the Journal of Business
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The travel industry has arrived at a new destination.
Travel agencies, already reeling from the elimination earlier this decade of their main source of revenue—airline commissions—now also are adapting to reductions in consumer travel, first from 9/11 and now from the recession. Today, say those in the industry here, there are far fewer agencies, and they're filling their niche differently than before.
"There aren't many of us left," says Doug Huneywell, owner...
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Travel agencies, already reeling from the elimination earlier this decade of their main source of revenue—airline commissions—now also are adapting to reductions in consumer travel, first from 9/11 and now from the recession. Today, say those in the industry here, there are far fewer agencies, and they're filling their niche differently than before.
"There aren't many of us left," says Doug Huneywell, owner...
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