This Is the No. 1 Secret to Cheap Travel That Your Travel Agent Won’t Tell You

11. Travel tours might be traps

Tours increase the price tag. | mihtiander/iStock/Getty Images

Of course your travel agent won’t tell you that travel tours are traps, according to Travel Weekly. Travel agents use tours and day trips to increase the price tags on bookings and make more commission. “ … Without a doubt it is going to be cheaper to buy your tours and day trips at your destination, that way you avoid all commissions and pay the operator direct,” said a travel agent to Travel Weekly.

“One of my friends who works at a huge travel agency just told me about a incentive they have running called ‘pimp that file’ where they are encouraged to put every little tour, transfer, show and everything you don’t need just so that they can increase the cost of the package and in turn increase their take home pay,” he said.

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