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51.4% -- share of agencies citing rising operational costs as top operational challenge for travel agencies (2025-11)
51.4% of surveyed travel agencies cited rising operational costs as one of their biggest operational challenges.
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51.4%
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2025-11
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B
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95
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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TravelOperations
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Tier A
https://traveloperations.com/general/travel-agency-operations-why-disconnected-systems-are-slowing-a… ↗
Source Article
Travel agency operations: Why disconnected systems are slowing agency growth - TravelOperations
Travel agency operations: Why disconnected systems are slowing agency growth
Discover how disconnected systems create manual work, increase operational costs, and make it harder for travel agencies to scale, automate, and adopt AI.
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Many travel agencies view manual work, rising c…
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TravelOperations
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Worldwide 'State of Travel Agency Operations' survey conducted Oct 20 - Nov 20, 2025 by TravelOperations
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Industrymarketing
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travel agencies: 51.4% share of agencies citing rising operational costs as top operational challenge. Source: TravelOperations (2025-11). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/travel-agencies-rising-costs-challenge-2025
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