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Show Trips Without Traps Travel, once a luxury for the rich or daring, is now an accepted feature of modern American life. And more and more people on the go are preceding their journeys with a visit to those very accommodating accom-modating people known as travel agents. A good agent knows which tickets will get you from here to there in the style best suited suit-ed to you, and he can help get the most out of the precise pre-cise time in between. He reserves re-serves hotel rooms you will enjoy, near the sights you will want to see. He arranges car, train, bus or air transportation trans-portation to gel you where you want to go. He books theater tickels, lines up guides, and makes other special arrangements. ar-rangements. In short, he adds zip to your trip. Many people don't realize that plans set up by travel agents usually don't cost any more. The agents are payed commissions by airlines, hotels and others. The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) is the largest professional travel trade association in the world and the only organization of all elements of the travel industry. indus-try. Its purpose is the promotion pro-motion and advancement of the interest of the travel agency agen-cy industry and the safeguarding safeguard-ing of the traveling public against fraud, misrepresentation misrepresenta-tion and other unethical practices. prac-tices. When you go to a travel agent who is a member of ASTA, you will be assured of a journey well planned. No reservation about it. |