Why You Still Need a Travel Agent in 2025: Modern, Custom Trip Planning for Millennials & Gen Z
Not Hawaii or Mexico. Have you ever thought of a beach trip to Oman?
Okay, so picture this, you’ve saved ALL the best restaurants and cafes and most instagrammable spots into one folder. Almost all of those have been shared with your girlfriends! This is how it all starts!
Okay, now picture this you are inspired one night on the couch and so you start looking up activities or top 10 must do things in that same location. You’re starting to get so excited because – well, it’s coming together! It’s going to happen!! The girls are excited, you’re excited and you have a great night on the couch planning your future.
Okay, but now, fast forward three months – did the trip planning expand off the text chain? Are the images in your saved folder from others or are they your posts from those locations?!
This is a common situation, almost everyone I know has done this exact scenario. Know why? Because it’s overwhelming!! Planning a trip is so overwhelming, there’s too little time, everyone has opinions, the costs are just adding up beyond what you had ever imagined. Gah! Ah! Yes – it’s all that and so much more.
When you hear the term “travel agent” you probably have a reaction – whether that is positive or negative, it is a visceral reaction. But that problem I mentioned above, the one that so many of us are guilty of, well a travel agent could take that stress off your plate.
Let’s dig into that. Let me change your mind on why hiring a travel agent to prepare for your next trip will change how you travel moving forward!
It’s not cookie cutter, it’s as unique as you
Let’s start with the most important bit and likely why you haven’t worked with a travel agent yet. You need a custom, oh-so-special and perfect for you itinerary! Without this, well, you literally wouldn’t have anything. Working with a travel agency such as Newberry Travel, you can build from the ground up. You’ve got all of those saved tabs, Instagram posts or pinterest boards? Well, send them over! And don’t forget to include answers to the custom build questionnaire that will dig deeper into your actual travel goals and dreams for the trip.
How it looks when you work with Newberry Travel removes the day to day logistics and painstaking time planning to organize all the little details of your trip – and allows you to just keep pinning items, sharing content and finding interesting activities. We all know this is the most exciting part about a trip anyway! Well, other than actually being there!
If you love being part of the planning process, then keep doing it! A travel agent won’t take that away from you, but they will organize all your activities and find accommodations that allows for a seamless vacation. There does not need to be anything cookie cutter about working with a travel agent – we just help organize what you’ve already curated to make it effortless for you.
It's basically free 😉
Did you know that working with a travel agent to book simple things – such as hotels, activities or travel insurance may not even actually cost you money?!! And in fact, it might save you money! Wild right.
Let’s myth-bust this thing – being a travel agent allows you access to special perks, upgrades, rates and so much more. Part of this is that there is a commission that we receive from those providers – not from you! Some agents, include Newberry Travel, do have design fees for trips longer than 5 days, or trips that are more extensive than just hotels and a few activities – such as figuring out the train details to get from point A to point B. In the big picture though, those fees are nominal compared to cancelation or last minute cost increases by booking on your own.
Still feeling hesitant about this? Then, let’s connect. We can do some scenarios together to make sure that you feel comfortable moving forward with the partnership.
Expert Knowledge You Can Trust
Most travel agents are not experts in every location – but they typically can get in touch with someone who is! Working closely with a travel agent can allow you to get personalized recommendations based on your travel style and share their first-hand experiences about a location or hot tips on the hidden gems.
While we may not have the direct knowledge from visiting a location ourselves, we have plenty of tips and tricks to get you the best information possible. You can get ahead of potential fauxpaus or mistakes by working with agents. Didn’t realize that your country had a visa requirement – oops! Next time, let your travel agent gather those details for you. Didn’t know that the crosswalk buttons in South Korea were only for people with seeing impairments? Agents can stop the locals from rolling their eyes at you before you even do it!
Time-Saving & Stress-Free Planning
This is perhaps the most beneficial part of working with a travel agent – it should be stress free! The goal is never to take the excitement away from you as we build this trip – but rather, it’s to allow you to only be in the exciting stuff and leave the frustrating, boring, tedious stuff to me!
You may LOVE saving pictures of places you want to go and you may LOVE reading blogs to find all the interesting things to do. You can continue to do that, if you’d like and if it brings you joy and gets you pumped for your upcoming trip – keep doing that! But if you need some help researching neighborhoods to stay in and finding accommodations or organizing your timeline to ensure afternoon naps are had as well as 4-hour food tours, great! Let me piece together that puzzle so you can just enjoy the ooey gooey yumminess of dreaming about a perfect vacation!
Support throughout and after – both logistically and emotionally
Leading up to the trip, I want to be your main point person – the only person that you talk to, that you share your hopes and dreams of this one-in-a-lifetime trip to. From there you put it on me to have the conversation with all of the vendors to get organized. Do you need a hype girl as you pack your luggage – sign me up! Need to vent about how your mom is trying to take over the dinner plans – I’m here for ya. All of the hard conversations, both internally and with partners can be managed in a streamlined way by working with a travel agent.
During the trip, I will do my best to always be available for any help or fixes you need for your trip! Flight delayed or cancelled – let me dig into alternative options for you! Travel agents can be the real human support when things start to go sideways or things need to be adjusted.
After the trip? Send me your pictures, I’d love to help you get a memory book made. Need a recap of the locations you went to share with a friend, no worries – we’ll have a nice clean itinerary to share with them. I want to be the support you may after your trip to keep your memories alive. And, hey, I’ll be here for when you want to travel again! I got chu boo.
The VIP Treatment You Didn’t Know You Could Have
Let me let you in on a little secret. You know those people who somehow always get the room with the view, the welcome champagne, early check-in, late check-out, and the spa credit? It’s not just because they’re lucky - it’s because they booked through a travel advisor with industry connections (hi, that’s me!).
As a travel agent, I work with trusted partners around the world—hotels, tour operators and private guides—who take great care of my clients because we’ve built real relationships. That often means my clients get access to upgrades, extra amenities, and curated experiences that aren’t even available to the general public booking through a search engine.
Think: complimentary breakfast in the Azores, a room category upgrade in a boutique riad in Essaouira, a private driver waiting for you in Oaxaca or even a surprise birthday cake at that tucked-away vineyard dinner in Georgia (yes, the country—add it to your list). These kinds of touches turn a good trip into a truly unforgettable one—and they don’t cost you more. In fact, you’ll often get more than you ever imagined by skipping the booking engines and working directly with someone who knows how to unlock the magic.
Modern Planning for the Modern Traveler
Look, I get it. We’re all used to having endless options at our fingertips. You could spend hours scrolling TripAdvisor or Google Maps and think you’ve nailed it. But here’s the thing—being able to access information isn’t the same as knowing what to do with it. That’s where I come in.
This is modern-day travel planning. It’s curated. It’s collaborative. It’s designed around you. You don’t need to give up control—you just get to ditch the overwhelm. I’ll take what you love and layer in the details that make it sing. From VIP perks to knowing exactly when to book the train from Florence to Venice (and which side of the train has the best views)—I’m here to elevate the entire experience.
So if you’re ready to actually take that trip you've been saving in your Instagram folder, let’s build something beautiful together. You dream it, I’ll design it. Let's go!
