Should you use a Travel Agent to book your next trip?
Travel agents in 2025 don’t just book flights; they act as human search-engine killers. They have direct access to unpublished airline and hotel rates, can bundle weird multi-city itineraries that Kayak can’t price, and—most importantly—when a volcano erupts, a strike happens, or a cruise line cancels, they’re the ones on the phone for three hours fixing it while you sip coffee. They earn commissions from the suppliers (not from you), so the price is almost always the same or better than booking direct, and they save the average traveler 4–8 hours of research plus hundreds of dollars on complicated trips. For simple round-trip domestic flights, sure, use Google Flights. For anything with more than two legs, kids, points, or potential chaos, a real agent is quietly the highest-ROI purchase you can make with zero out-of-pocket cost.
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