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| ***** | AIRLINE APPOINTED AGENCY. | A U.S. travel agency that holds airline ticket stock or has e-ticketing capabilities.
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| **** | HOST AGENCY. | A travel agency that provides booking services to home-based travel agents, operating as independent contractors in exchange for a negotiated share of the resulting commission. For more information, s
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| *** | REFERRAL AGENCY. | A travel agency using a network of outside sales agents to funnel travel requests to an inside sales force that makes the actual sale. Typically, these agencies seek to recruit as large an outside sal
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| *** | CRUISE-ONLY AGENCY. | A travel agency that specializes primarily or entirely in marketing cruise vacations. Such agencies typically do not have an ARC appointment, but may be members of CLIA or NACOA.
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| ** | CORPORATE AGENCY. | 1. A travel agency physically located on the premises of a corporation which it services. 2. A travel agency that specializes in corporate clients.
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| ** | FULLY APPOINTED AGENCY. | A travel agency that is accredited to sell airline, cruise, and other travel services.
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| * | CONVERSION AGENCY. | A formerly independent travel agency that has joined a chain. Typically, the conversion agency's name will be changed to or blended with the name of the chain.
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| * | TRAVEL AGENCY. | 1. Usually used in the travel industry to refer to an ARC-appointed storefront retailer. 2. Any business that refers to itself as a travel agency.
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| * | AGENCY. | 1. A legal relationship in which one person acts for another in a business dealing with a third party. 2. A travel agency.
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| * | COMMERCIAL AGENCY. | A travel agency that specializes in corporate travel.
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