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Article: Travel switch hits agents.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2003
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FOR the first time, travel agents handle less than half of foreign trips booked in Britain, according to figures revealed yesterday.
Budget airlines and the Internet have brought a boom in DIY holidays where travellers organise their own flight, accommodation and extras.
Along with other methods of booking, such as by phone or from brochures, it means that 'direct sell' trips now account for 54 per cent of total outbound travel, ...