{"id":20288,"date":"2014-02-04T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/myth-busting-travel-agents-what-do-you-think-you-know-2\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T05:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T05:33:00","slug":"myth-busting-travel-agents-what-do-you-think-you-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/02\/myth-busting-travel-agents-what-do-you-think-you-know-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth busting travel agents. What do you think you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourismradiocityguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/travel-agent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tourismradiocityguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/travel-agent.jpg\" height=\"264\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Robert Fletcher, Active Travel <\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, going to a travel agent was a logical and critical step in planning your perfect holiday.<\/p>\n<p>However with the increasing presence of online booking websites and \u201cquick booking\u201d solutions  it seems that the travel agent has become somewhat of a mythical creature and a lot of misconceptions have arisen around travel agents and the value they offer.<\/p>\n<p>Well we\u2019re here to bust some common myths about travel agents and the services we provide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/activetravel.com.au\/busting-myths-travel-agents\/\">Read the full story<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robert Fletcher, Active Travel Five years ago, going to a travel agent was a logical and critical step in planning your perfect holiday. However with the increasing presence of online booking websites and \u201cquick booking\u201d solutions it seems that the travel agent has become somewhat of a mythical creature and a lot of misconceptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}