Reply #5: Yeah. The travel agencies started disappearing after 9/11 [View All]

[lunatica]

Because so many people were afraid to fly. There was a domino effect and most of them simply shut down. I remember reading about it. I booked my first vacation ever to New York on Expedia the next year and got a huge discount on the flight and on the hotel. When I got to the hotel I had the confirmed email printout with me and they didn't know what it was. It was obvious they'd never seen it before, but my hotel reservation was in their system. I actually got some dirty looks as if they thought I was successfully pulling some scam on them.

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