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Definition of travel agency

called also travel bureau

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1898, in the meaning defined above

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“Travel agency.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/travel%20agency. Accessed 18 Sep. 2024.

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Definition of travel agency noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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• You can book at your local travel agency.

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travel agency

• a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
• an agency that arranges and negotiates flights, holidays, etc, for travellers

Derived Forms

• travel agent , noun

Example Sentences

Already, travel agencies have seen unprecedented levels of interest.

Similarly, Virtuoso, a network of travel agencies around the world, has seen a 50 percent increase in the number of people seeking out travel advisers since January.

Rosalind Smith, general manager of the nationwide travel agency Superior Cruise & Travel, noted March 31 that her firm had lately been working with a higher-than-usual volume of essential workers hoping to get out of town ASAP.

Businesses that Google competes with directly, like online travel agencies or review platforms, maybe feeling the pinch on their organic traffic.

I think businesses that compete with Google, such as online travel agencies or other search engines, need to add values in ways that Google can’t.

“Mostly people on a budget use it,” Franz Dobersberger, managing director of a Bangkok travel agency, told The Daily Beast.

Tashi Tshering, a young Bhutanese man, operates a travel agency for filmmakers and documentarians.

Mukesh Gupta, who operates the oldest travel agency for Bhutan, Bhutan Travels, disagrees.

Hotel Viru quickly became the pride of Intourist, a Soviet travel agency that was founded in the 1920s by Joseph Stalin.

In 1998, Agee settled in Havana and started a travel agency.

He arranged for his ticket and reservations at the bank's travel agency, then went back to his hotel to pack.

Exploding pagers: How Israel is suspected of using technology against its enemies

A wave of deadly explosions across Lebanon and parts of Syria has targeted Hezbollah officials whose handheld pagers have blown up. One bomb expert suggests high explosives could have been planted into pagers.

Security and Defence Editor @haynesdeborah

Wednesday 18 September 2024 06:15, UK

Israel is accused of carrying out an audacious, high-tech and targeted attack on Hezbollah.

The unprecedented mass explosion of handheld pagers used by Hezbollah fighters came after the military group switched from mobile phones as a means of communication to reduce the risk of being tracked by Israel .

No one has claimed responsibility but Lebanese officials have accused Israel, which has not commented on the blasts.

There is a long history of Israel being accused of using inventive methods to eliminate its enemies.

Pager explosions: Middle East latest

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A security expert, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Sky News someone could have tampered with these devices before they were distributed - such as by hiding explosives inside them that could be detonated remotely when a certain signal is sent to the pager.

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Pagers pre-date mobile phones and are now uncommon in most Western countries, but were widely used in the 1980s and 1990s. They are a one-way communications device, allowing people to send a short message via radio signal to the pager. Often, in the past, it would have been a phone number inviting people to call back.

The source said the "general view I am hearing is that this was an impressive attack" which required a certain amount of co-ordination.

"It looks likely that the pagers they [Hezbollah] purchased may have been compromised and turned into remote bombs," the security expert said, stressing that this was just speculation based on his expertise.

"[It] seems too coordinated and powerful an explosion to just be malfunction," adding it was less likely to have been caused by the batteries overheating.

Injuries 'consistent' with high explosives

Bomb disposal expert and former British army officer Chris Hunter said: "We've seen this sort of similar MO [particular method] with mobile devices before."

In 1996, Hamas master bomb maker Yahya Ayyash "was assassinated using a mobile phone with a small amount of explosives in it," he said.

Mr Hunter says his initial theory - based on injuries - suggests the blasts are "consistent with 1 to 2 ounces of high explosive. And you could certainly get that amount in a pager.

"We've seen ETA [a separatist group operating in Spain], we've seen the Colombian groups, we've seen the provisional IRA use pagers as explosive devices," he said.

Israel's long history of high-tech warfare

Israel's spy agencies have a long history of being linked to assassinations and covert activities using high-tech bombs and devices. Here is a summary of some of them:

1972: Bassam Abu Sharif

He was injured in Beirut when he opened a package containing a book implanted with a bomb which exploded. He was the spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

He survived but lost several fingers, was left deaf in one ear and blind in one eye.

1972: Mahmoud Hamshari

A representative from the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was killed in Paris in 1972 when a bomb was planted under a telephone and remotely detonated.

1996: Yahya Ayyash

He earned the nickname "The Engineer" and apparently helped develop suicide bombs used in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

2000: Samih Malabi

A Fatah activist from the Kalandia refugee camp outside Ramallah, was killed when a booby-trapped mobile phone exploded next to his head.

2007: Stuxnet

A powerful computer worm designed by US and Israeli intelligence that is believed to have disabled a key part of the Iranian nuclear program.

Stuxnet was designed to destroy the centrifuges Iran used to enrich uranium as part of its weapons programme.

It is reported the worm was delivered to the facility on a thumb drive by an Iranian double agent working for Israel.

2020: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

An Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated in Iran by a remote-controlled machine gun mounted on a car.

Mr Fakhrizadeh was travelling in a bulletproof vehicle alongside three security personnel vehicles when he heard what sounded like bullets hitting his car.

After he reportedly left the vehicle, a Nissan fitted with a remote-controlled machine gun then opened fire killing him.

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What We Know About the Apparent Assassination Attempt Against Trump

Secret Service agents fired on a man with a rifle who had been hiding for hours in the wooded edge of a Trump golf club in Florida, officials said. Former President Donald J. Trump was unhurt.

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By Isabelle Taft

Follow live coverage of the apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump .

The F.B.I. is investigating the apparent attempt on Sunday to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump. His campaign said he was unharmed in the episode, which took place at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla., just over two months after he was grazed by a would-be assassin’s bullet at a rally in Butler, Pa.

Officials said Secret Service personnel fired on a suspect, who was armed with a rifle and was hiding in bushes around the golf course. The suspect fled the scene, but his vehicle was spotted shortly afterward and he was taken into custody without incident, according to officials.

The suspect was charged in federal court on Monday with two firearms counts. Additional charges may follow.

Here’s what we know.

What happened at the golf club?

A Secret Service agent was patrolling ahead of Mr. Trump on the golf course at about 1:30 p.m. when the agent spotted a rifle barrel sticking out of a fence, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Palm Beach County said at a news conference. He said Mr. Trump was about 400 yards away at the time.

Secret Service agents fired at the man holding the rifle, who fled on foot and got into a black Nissan, leaving the rifle and other items behind. Officials said on Monday afternoon that the man did not fire, and that he did not have Mr. Trump in his sight line.

Mr. Trump left the course and returned to Mar-a-Lago, his residence and private club, according to a person briefed on the situation, and his campaign office in West Palm Beach was locked down and secured.

The F.B.I. said it was investigating the incident as an apparent assassination attempt on the former president. At the scene, investigators found a semiautomatic rifle with a scope, and two backpacks containing ceramic tile that were hung on the fence. They also found some food and a video camera, and said they believed that the suspect may have intended to film the shooting.

The criminal complaint said the gun was an SKS-style rifle, and that it was found loaded. The SKS is a Soviet-era semiautomatic rifle developed in the 1940s; it is a rugged, reliable and fairly accurate weapon that has been seen in conflicts around the world and is popular in the United States, in part because it is relatively inexpensive.

Law enforcement officials said on Monday that they were trying to learn where the rifle had been sold and who had bought it. The serial number had been partially scratched away, they said, making the rifle more difficult to trace.

Mr. Trump spoke with friends and allies on Sunday afternoon, and joked about wishing he had been able to finish his golf game.

What is known about the suspect?

Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Ryan W. Routh, 58. He was charged on Monday with two federal felony counts, according to the Justice Department — possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The first charge is the more serious of the two, carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison. It is possible that additional charges may be filed.

The authorities have not said what they think the suspect’s motive was for attempting an assassination. Jeffrey B. Veltri, the F.B.I.’s top agent in Miami, said in a news conference on Monday that the agency had no information that the suspect was working with anybody else.

Mr. Routh is a former construction worker who has lived in Greensboro, N.C., and in Hawaii. He was interviewed by The New York Times for a March 2023 article about American volunteers who traveled to Ukraine to support the war effort against Russia. Mr. Routh said he was trying to recruit Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban to fight in Ukraine.

Mr. Routh was arrested in 2002 in Greensboro after barricading himself inside a building with a fully automatic weapon, according to The Greensboro News & Record. Federal court records show that he was convicted in December 2002 of “possessing a weapon of mass death and destruction,” a felony.

Sheriff William D. Snyder of Martin County, Fla., where the suspect was apprehended on Sunday, said that when his deputies arrested the suspect, he “was not displaying a lot of emotions.” He was not armed when he was taken from his vehicle, the sheriff said.

The F.B.I. said on Monday that cellphone records indicated that the suspect had been “lurking in the vicinity of the area along the tree line” at the edge of the golf course beginning at 1:59 a.m. on Sunday — roughly 12 hours before his rifle was spotted.

Mr. Veltri also said that Mr. Routh had been the subject of a 2019 bureau investigation based on a tip that he was in possession of a firearm as a felon. The case was closed after the agency interviewed the person who made the complaint and did not receive any additional information.

What happened in the earlier assassination attempt?

Mr. Trump survived an assassination attempt at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, when a sniper on the roof of a nearby building shot at him as he spoke. One bullet grazed Mr. Trump’s right ear.

A volunteer firefighter attending the rally, Corey Comperatore , 50, was killed, and two other attendees were critically injured in the shooting.

Mr. Trump was rushed off the stage and was found not to be seriously hurt. A photograph of him bleeding with his fist raised in the air as the Secret Service ushered him offstage became a defining image of his campaign.

The Secret Service said its agents shot and killed the sniper, who was identified afterward by federal law enforcement officials as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa.

Since that incident, the agency has added agents to Mr. Trump’s protective detail and stepped up intelligence efforts.

The incident prompted intense criticism of the Secret Service, and several investigations into what went wrong that day are underway. Kimberly A. Cheatle, the director of the agency at the time, resigned in late July following calls from lawmakers in both parties for her to step down.

What are the new questions about the Secret Service?

The apparent assassination attempt on Sunday quickly raised new questions about the agency’s ability to protect candidates.

“Certainly a second serious incident, apparently involving an assault weapon, is deeply alarming and appalling,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut and the chairman of the Senate subcommittee investigating the security failures at Butler.

President Joseph R. Biden told reporters on Monday that “the Service needs more help.”

As at Butler, the incident on Sunday appeared to involve a flaw in the security perimeter around Mr. Trump. It took place at the Trump International Golf Club, a facility Mr. Trump owns that is about five miles west of Mar-a-Lago. The suspect apparently hid undetected for about 12 hours at a location where he would be able to see Mr. Trump playing golf. Similarly, the gunman in Butler found a spot on the roof of a warehouse just outside the rally’s security perimeter where he was hidden from direct view from the ground and had a line of fire to the rally stage.

Sheriff Bradshaw said that the size of Mr. Trump’s security detail was smaller than it would be if he were a sitting president.

The Secret Service plans to conduct an internal review of the incident at the golf course, similar to the one initiated after the shooting in Butler.

Reporting was contributed by Jonathan Swan , Thomas Gibbons-Neff , Adam Goldman , Glenn Thrush , Eileen Sullivan , Kate Kelly , Patricia Mazzei , Hank Sanders and Michael Gold . Jack Begg contributed research.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated when Ryan Wesley Routh was convicted of “possessing a weapon of mass death and destruction.” It was in December 2002, not December 2020.

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Isabelle Taft is a reporter covering national news and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their career. More about Isabelle Taft

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