Travel Agents, travel consultants, travel advisors, travel specialists, and travel counselors are terms used interchangeably to describe the travel professional who helps to arrange travel for clients. Travel itself has always been in a state of transition.
The industry has evolved significantly since travelers carried paper tickets to the airport, paid in cash, and engaged in a tedious back-and-forth process to confirm their travel plans. What we may now view as cumbersome was once the height of convenience, given the technology available at the time.