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Travel Agency

Definition: Travel Agency

Travel Agency

Noun

1. An agency that arranges personal travel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Travel Agency

DomainDefinition

General

Person or firm qualified to arrange for hotel rooms, transportation, cruises, tours, and other travel elements. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Travel Agency

Specialty definitions using "travel agency": MANAGER, TRAVEL AGENCY. (references)

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Modern Usage: Travel Agency

DomainUsage

Screenplays

There is fire at the travel agency. (The Longest Day; writing credit: Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, Cornelius Ryan, and Jack Seddon. based on the book by Cornelius Ryan.)

Some people find it ironical that although we run a travel agency, we've never been outside of Blaine. (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Travel Agency

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adventures in Ancient Egypt (The Good Times Travel Agency) (reference)

  • Guide to Starting and Operating a Successful Travel Agency (The Travel Management Library Series) (reference)

  • Manual of Travel Agency Practice (reference)

  • Professional Travel Agency Management (reference)

  • Travel Agency Services in Indonesia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Travel Agency

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

These factors will have an impact on tour operator and travel agency programs. (references)

Travel agency networks and purchasing groups in Italy are increasing in number and affiliates. (references)

The second largest agency, Cedok, the former State travel agency, has therefore bought a 50% share in Travel Servis, a charter flight operator in the country. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

However, the establishment of an insurance company or travel agency is subject to reciprocity. (references)

Poland

Orbis S.A., the leading Polish travel agency and owner of the largest hotel chain in Poland, has been privatized. (references)

Croatia

Other recent investments include: privatization of Grand Hotel Imperial in Dubrovnik sold to the hotel chain Hilton International; sale of the Argentina Hotel in Dubrovnik; sale of the Plava Laguna Hotel in Porec; sale of Atlas, the key travel agency; sale of the Excelsior Hotel in Dubrovnik; and sale of the Bonavia Hotel in Rijeka. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

In September and October, unknown persons, impersonating her work colleagues, inquired about her exact travel itineraries at the local travel agency she used. (references)

Travel

Cape Verde

However, one should guarantee booking, either directly or through a travel agency, before departing. (references)

Cape Verde

Tourist groups may be visa-exempt when they inform officials in advance through a local travel agency. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Travel Agency

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

travel agency

5,405

international travel agency

36

online travel agency

230

travel agency in toronto

35

hawaii travel agency

204

uk travel agency

34

travel agency canada

112

india travel agency

33

canadian travel agency

109

san diego travel agency

32

aaa travel agency

98

miami travel agency

31

toronto travel agency

96

american express travel agency

29

travel agency to the philippine

83

cruise travel agency

29

ontario travel agency

76

business travel agency

29

cuba travel agency

66

gay travel agency

28

singapore travel agency

63

start travel agency

28

travel agency ontario canada

63

florida travel agency

27

student travel agency

59

travel agency school

27

hong kong travel agency

51

travel agency chicago

27

liberty travel agency

49

edmonton travel agency

26

montreal travel agency

47

travel agency franchise

25

vancouver travel agency

46

travel agency new york

25

houston travel agency

42

travel agency job

24

discount travel agency

36

travel agency calgary

23

malaysia travel agency

36

japan travel agency

23
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Travel Agency

Language Translations for "travel agency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏وكالة سفر. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пътническа агенция. (various references)

   

Czech

  

cestovní kancelář (travel bureau). (various references)

   

Danish

  

rejsebureau (tourist agency). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

reisbureau (tourist agency, travel bureau). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

vojaĝagentejo (tourist agency). (various references)

   

French

  

agence de voyages (travel office), agence de voyage. (various references)

   

German

  

Reisebüro (tourist agency, travel agencies). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ταξιδιωτικό πρακτορείο (travel agent). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utazási iroda (tourist agency, travel bureau). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

ferðaskrifstofu. (various references)

   

Italian

  

agenzia di viaggi (travel agent, travel bureau). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

トラップ射' (electrical transistor, tradition, traditional, traffic, traffic builder, trance, tranquilizer, transaction, transactional analysis, Trans-Am, trans-American, transceiver, transcription, transformer, transistor, transistor glamour, transit, transnational, transparency, transponder, Transylvania, trap shooting, trappiste, trappistine, travel, travel bureau, travel set, travel watch, travelers check, travellers' cheque, travelling, traverse, trouble, trouble shot, troublemaker, trouble-shooting, trough, trunk, trunk room, trunks, work). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

トラベルエージェンシー . (various references)

   

Manx

  

oik turrysagh (Tourist agency), jantys troailt. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

reisebyrå (tourist agency). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aveltray agencyay

   

Portuguese

  

agência de viagens (travel-bureau), agência de viagem. (various references)

   

Romansch

  

biro da viada. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бюро путешествий (travel bureau). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

agencia de viajes (travel bureau), agencia de viaje (tourist agency). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

resebyrå (tourist agency, travel bureau). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Travel Agency

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-l-n-r-t-v-y"

-3 letters: averagely, rectangle, relevancy, vagrantly.

-4 letters: acervate, acrylate, argental, carageen, catenary, cervelat, cleavage, cravenly, elegancy, gynaecea, lacerate, layerage, levanter, recently, regental, relevant, vacantly, vagrancy, valerate, vernacle.

-5 letters: acerate, acreage, acylate, agentry, angerly, avenger, average, calvary, caravel, carnage, cartage, catenae, cateran, cavalry, centare, central, clanger, clavate, cleaner, cleaver, crenate, cyanate, eagerly, elegant, enclave, engrave, enlarge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Travel Agency


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 76 65 6C      41 67 65 6E 63 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101100 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#118 &#101 &#108 &#32 &#65 &#103 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0076 0065 006C      0041 0067 0065 006E 0063 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5484678871782357371806991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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