Whois & Analysis for travelleaders.com

A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism related services to the public on behalf of suppliers such as activities, airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, travel insurance, and package tours.

In addition to dealing with ordinary tourists most travel agencies have a separate department devoted to making travel arrangements for business travelers and some travel agencies specialize in commercial and business travel only.

There are also travel agencies that serve as general sales agents for foreign travel companies, allowing them to have offices in countries other than where their headquarters are located.

A vacation or holiday is a leave of absence from a regular occupation, or a specific trip or journey, usually for the purpose of recreation or tourism.

People often take a vacation during specific holiday observances, or for specific festivals or celebrations.

Vacations are often spent with friends or family.

A business trip is a trip undertaken for work or business purposes, as opposed to other types of travel, such as for leisure purposes or regularly commuting between one's home and workplace.

Leisure has been defined as a quality of experience or as free time.

Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education.

It also excludes time spent on necessary activities such as eating and sleeping.

From a research perspective, this approach has the advantages of being quantifiable and comparable over time and place.

Leisure as experience usually emphasizes dimensions of perceived freedom and choice.

It is done for "its own sake", for the quality of experience and involvement.

Other classic definitions include Thorsten Veblen's (1899) of "nonproductive consumption of time." Different disciplines have definitions reflecting their common issues: for example, sociology on social forces and contexts and psychology as mental and emotional states and conditions.

A transport network, or transportation network is a realisation of a spatial network, describing a structure which permits either vehicular movement or flow of some commodity.