travel agency

travel agency
The business of making reservations on behalf of clients or customers with carriers by ship, rail or air, hotels, theaters, etc., booking tours, and advising people in reference to trips in prospect. The business of bringing together members of the traveling public and the operators of passenger automobiles who are not engaged in business as regularly licensed common or private carriers of passengers for hire. Francis v Adams, 54 Ariz 377, 96 112d 277, 126 ALR 190.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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