I need a data base of travel agencies in the United States.  These
travel agencies must have the capabilities of sending people to New
York City as their destination / vacation.

Data base must include at least - Name of company, address & phone
number.  Any other information would be very helpful.

Please do not include links to compaines that will require additional
fees for data info.

Thank you,

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 11 Apr 2003 08:28 PDT

The United States is a pretty big country, and I doubt anyone will be
able to supply you with a listing of the tens of thousands of travel
agencies throughout the country.

Is there a way to scale down this request to a reasonable number of
listings...perhaps in one city?

Dear dantheman23-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.

Here you will find a database of all the travel agencies listed in US
telephone directories nation wide. Click on the name of the state to
see listing for the entire state or you can click on the listed city
names to see the most commonly searched agencies within each state.
There are literally thousands of travel agencies listed here. A quick
search, for example revealed 14,000 travel agencies listed in
California and New York State alone, for example.

SWITCHBOARD.COM
http://www.switchboard.com/Find/Travel_Agencies.asp

If there were more I could say about this list I’d mention it but
frankly this is the largest comprehensive list of travel agencies out
there that I know of and it basically speaks for itself. As you
requested this list of travel agencies in the United States shows each
agency’s phone number and address as well as a map, driving
directions, etc.

I hope you find that that my research exceeds your expectations. If
you have any questions about my research please post a clarification
request prior to rating the answer. I welcome your rating and your
final comments and I look forward to working with you again in the
near future. Thank you for bringing your question to us.

Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga



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SWITCHBOARD.COM
http://www.switchboard.com/Find/Travel_Agencies.asp


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Request for Answer Clarification by dantheman23-ga on 11 Apr 2003 13:31 PDT

Thank you for your rapid reply.  However, I didn't want a general
list.  I needed a list that specified travel agencies that send people
to New York as their destination / vacation spot.

The switchboard.com you suggested was already used by me and I didn't
find it useful.

Are you able to get me a more detailed list?

If the task is to great, can you at least provide a list of travel
agencies under the above specifications for Texas, California and
Florida only?

Thanks for your help

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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 11 Apr 2003 15:11 PDT

As with any service, we can only know what you tell us. Of course,
there was no way to know what you had tried and what you had not
tried. The database provided is likley the most complete list there
is. Assuming that any travel agency is in the business of booking
travel to any location, the agencies found in the database would all
qualify as capable of booking travel to New York.

If your "Plan B" is to obtain a list of all agencies in Texas,
California and Florida which provide travel booking to New York,
again, these can be obtained from the database provided. If you are
asking if it is possible to contact each and every one individually
and inquire if they can book travel to New York, you are asking for
someone to make 15,218 long distance phone calls in your behalf. If
the phone calls cost only .10 cents each (which they do not) this
would cost approx. $1,518 to do and would take about 3 weeks to
complete, which is not feasible.

I suggest you choose the best agencies in each state that interests
you and call them to see if they provide the services you need, or
search for the agency in the internet and email them. Alternatively,
there are some online toll-free directories but it would still take an
enormous amount of time to contact all 15 thousand + agencies. Even
then the agency's would undoutedly have questions regarding the mode
of travel, dates of travel, etc, which no one knows but you, and this
would untimately be necessary in order to determine whether or not
they provide the service at all.

Having said this, do you have any other suggestions as to how we can
provide a better answer to your question?

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

Thank you for your answer the website will be of great help!