The travel agency acts

As advisory or warning ensuring formalities necessary for entry into a country. It also closes the destinations on sale as recommended by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (for France) and operates with its suppliers may encounter problems. It may be distributing agency, incoming agency or tour operator (tour operator). 

Travel agents can use the brochures of tour operators and computer reservation systems, or GDS (Global Distribution Systems) to compose a suitable offer to their customers. Increasingly, travel agencies are going to deal with these intermediaries themselves their products by assembling the various services used for this composition. Travel agencies have traditionally paid a commission on services sold. Increasingly, agency remuneration not just suppliers but their customers (travelers) who have to pay advisory fees and reservation. And emerged with the growth of mass tourism commercial airlines, travel agencies today are suffering from other distribution channels such as the Internet, which allows travelers to organize their trips directly compete, and competitors are emerging fully online as precursors Degriftour and Travelprice.com bought by lastminute.com (2000 and 2002) in France. Since 2005 new travel agency models appear Ecotour.com which has developed its own reservation system to reduce human intervention and process very large volumes of low margin or Private Travel which is modeled after Sale private applied to the resale of travel, hotels and rentals. The integrated travel agencies like Thomas Cook, or New Frontiers (Havas Voyages) network activity is as much of the distribution as the tour operator. 

Since the 2009 law on the regulation of the travel agency quality while traveling trader must be registered in a register kept by Trump France. This is a registration committee of professionals tourism issuing the authorization, within one month. The registration number contains the department number, date of registration and the serial number.