| Outsourcing of jobs has become all too common | | | | Case in point, the local travel agent may only have |
| here for United States companies looking to save a | | | | deals with Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways but |
| buck. But one trend that saves the American | | | | another travel agent, say from Tokyo, Japan, could |
| consumer a great deal of money has been the | | | | have a deal with Japanese Airlines or Lufthansa. So |
| outsourcing of travel agencies. | | | | this allows for even more cost savings by opening up |
| With travel agencies being opened up to the global | | | | more potential airlines for customers to purchase. |
| economy, it gives consumers a greater choice in | | | | There is going to be a great deal of people in the |
| whom and where to purchase their products. No | | | | United States shopping with travel agents from all |
| longer is a consumer forced to go with the local | | | | over the world over the next several years as the |
| travel agent and eat the costs they give. The global | | | | cost of oil is driving up the prices of airlines in droves. |
| economy keeps all the agents honest, provides a | | | | It has been stated by famous economist Peter Schiff |
| cheaper rate for those who are searching for a deal. | | | | that the airlines will be doubling the prices of their |
| The other issue that is very beneficial for an open | | | | tickets but shrinking the size of their planes by half |
| and wide industry like this is the fact that international | | | | to ensure their incomes are the same but the cost |
| travelers may need to find brokers and agents that | | | | savings of gas prices in tact. Gasoline is hurting the |
| have deals with most any other airline. | | | | airlines industry but taxes can help. |