Can we throw in instagram influencers too ???

Is this a job?

I think there's always going to be money to be made from this so it's going nowhere. As infuriating as it is.

Elon...is that you?

Some people cannot access or even know how to use the internet but want to book holidays. Also it can help to speak to an adviser about a holiday to give you more ideas.

We booked so called holidays of a lifetime through travel agent and it was absolutely fantastic. We are in Europe, trip was to Peru. We have never even been to the continent. They planned and booked everything - flights, local transfers, guides, hotels and entry tickets to sites. I would not use agent for holidays on the beach or a city break but in this case it was worth it. They even rearranged schedule and sorted new transfer/hotel when our flight to Peru was delayed by 18 hours, they made it stress free and smooth for us.

-cough cough- school trips, large event trips, just trips with a c**p ton of people -cough cough-

I have recectly started using travel agents again and they are great! Most of the time they have been to where you want to go and can give you great insight. The trips cost the same or even less than booking online. Lastly, if anything goes wrong they are one phone call away to help with any issues. Lastly, they do all the booking.

Booking flights can be complicated if you want to save some money by not booking the most direct route

Oh man, we have a travel agent we use for cruises and I will ALWAYS use her. She gets us way better deals than we could ever get on the internet. Cruises can be complex to book - she knows all the best staterooms, gets us perks we wouldn't be able to get on our own, has been to many of the locations the ships visit so knows about the tours. I will NEVER book one on my own - she's that good. And I love planning vacations, so this says a lot.

If you book a trip through something like Expedia, or FlightHub and have to make a change you have to call that Travel Agency which employs TRAVEL AGENTS.

very useful for complex trips, like I have to spend 3 days in London, then 2 days in Frankfurt, then to Cairo for 2 days, back to London for a 1 day meeting and I have to be in Mexico City the day after the London meeting. ---- Try booking that on Expiedia

Considering some of the travel nightmares folks have experienced during and since Covid, professional travel agents can really help dealing with cancelation, rebooking, refunds, etc

Travel agents to book regular flights are on the way out but they continue to be a thing for more specialized, high end or boutique vacations.

Travel agents can actually be really helpful and can help you save money because they may work with a company to get discounts for clients. But this is why I changed my major from travel/tourism.

I have a friend who's a travel agent and doing really well! It's not just for the technically unsavvy either. She leverages her experience in travel (she used to sing on cruise ships and is married to a S. African safari director) to get really good experiences for people, and leverages her good relationships with travel companies to get really good deals. The companies pay her commission, so it saves the traveler quite a bit of money.

Please add REALTORS 6% to show lazy people houses?

Do people not realize that travel agents are also behind the scenes of the travel websites as well? They are very useful, my friend's wife was one for decades, she mainly booked business travel for large companies but she helped me plan my honeymoon, the honeymoon was through a site that i could have booked on my own but she saved me the hassle of searching and planning everything, it cost me the same and she got a good commission.

Travel agents can do more flexible bookings than websites, not all destinations can help with issues if you book through a site like expedia or travelocity. In Ontario Canada, you want to book with someone that is TICO certified, we get our money back if the supplier goes out of business...They will deal with the crappy stuff so you can enjoy your trip.

Travel agents may not be necessary for, say, a one leg return flight and an hotel, but they are indispensable when multiple legs and stops and modes of travel are involved! Doubly so if the trip is cancelled; just try to get the refunds on your own!

I will always use my travel agent. With the decades of experience and genuine trading and knowledge she has (in stark contrast to Flight Center, Travelocity, and other online sites which often lie about flights, price and availability until you actually go to pay), it is an enormous benefit to have someone who genuinely knows what to do watching your back in case things don’t go as planned.

I think that now I'm older and have some money, giving the details to a person and having them coordinate and set it all up, plus the deals they get access to because of their network-- makes life simple and voila!

If you have a credit card that has travel points, they often have a travel agent that you can arrange your trip.

The older I get the less I want to do things myself and I'm not old haha I would rather have a travel agent plan an amazing trip for me.

I've booked a weekend trip to London including two nights in a hotel room for a better package price than I managed to find myself online.

My inlaws will always use a travel agent to book. We always book online. It's a generational thing.

Some years ago, we planned a trip for our 10th anniversay. It involved taking a train the LA to visit Disneyland, renting a car to drive to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas, flying to San Francisco and taking the train back home. Booking travel on the internet wasn't as much a thing as it is now, but if we were planning that trip today I would still go to a travel agent. Way too many parts to book on my own.

Rather plan it myself

I guess the people behind travel booking sites attending to the questions coming from travellers?

someone still uses typewriters apart from Tom Hanks?

I was just talking with my friend about this the other day. It does seem that apps and streaming are replacing tv and radio. Kinda miss the "wacky weatherpeople" from back in the day though

This is awful. Siri is powered by the financial muscle of Apple and it still can't understand my accent.

In the US and it would be really nice to have a more straightforward way to buy a car, regardless of how it happens. (For any not familiar with the system, we do have listed prices, but those can be negotiated and historically men tend to get better final prices.)

Outside of *very* small micro-markets, hasn't this already happened? Clear Channel (and Sinclair, I believe) bought up most, if not all, of the large regional stations since the early '90's. They have worked their way down to progressively smaller stations. College stations were being bought up last decade.

This has already been happening gradually over the last century

That'd also mean a serious detriment in quality for the genre, though. A lot of those hand-drawn details aided by AI/CG are what make animated media so amazing and full of life.

I don't think so. Even the best copy generators produce content that needs time-consuming tweaking. In many cases it would have been faster to just write it from scratch. And then there's the campaign development/conception part of a copywriter's job. That takes tons of research, creative thought and collaboration.

Never gonna happen! Just take a look at famous, successful or rich people. They all wear MECHANICAL watches. Classic never dies, in fact just gets more expensive as they age. Try to find a vintage Omega, Rolex or Tudor under $5000, and they are just a silly example. There are automatic watches that cost more then $100.000.

I don't trust ATM deposits. I once had the machine eat my money and say it wasn't adding it to the account, and it took a long while to ever see that cash again. I am officially paranoid.

That is kind of scary too because you can have a computer create any kind of photo, even ones depicting innocent people doing crimes. There is a software that can mimic people’s voices too.

Noooo. Too many people should be banned from self-serve.

Nope I want a licensed person who knows where things are.

Learn 3D printing. That is replacing most machinist positions now.

we have this already in SA. Most of our insurance companies have apps. Latest one you just walk around your car doing a pano or video and they give you a quote which you accept. It then asks for credit card details. Done. It's great. no talking to human idiot call centre people.

not in africa. Our strongest economy (SA) has major problems supplying electricity merely to citizens and businesses; forget cars for now.

Again this depends on country. You need good infrastructure and trustworthy roads. Our roads have lots of potholes which requires an intelligent driver to avoid.

Language is such a nuanced thing. Translators will be required for some considerable time.

not at all. As our economy grows and people need to do tax returns, there will be more demand.

I am not convinced by this. As a programmer, I want to be able to strictly control what my app does. I do not want drag and drop code blocks. I do not want inexplicable crashes from objects I have not coded myself. I do not want backdoors. Forget it. I barely trust things that let me drag and drop UI elements. Never mind "hey siri make me an app that does xyz"

I'm not aware of any management automation. What does this refer to?

Sure! I wanna see a robot do that. I need a good laugh.