Running a travel agency company was considered to be a more profitable job in the early 19th century. But now it has become rare and not a profitable one. This phenomenon is due to growth of advance technologies that are common among normal people. The advent of internet and websites has made travelers to
directly visit the website of a travel company and book for packages. This decreased the customer’s visit to travel agencies and hence the later finds their ways of hopelessness and loss of capital. Travel agents have started to choose the alternate ways of running their business. This has initiated the hosting of websites where the travel agent deals display their services and online bookings and price comparison techniques.

They have also chosen to work from their home without spending money by running separate agency offices and controlling laborers under them. A home based travel agent can also have his website hosted and
hence provide his services from his residence. There are many companies with whom the travel agent deals his business of acting as a bridge between the customers and the travel companies. These deals are normally called as travel agency deals. The advent of new technologies has hence decreased the job
opportunities of many travel agencies and hence makes them to go for alternatives.