Originally Posted by spottie
The catch is that there are no more industry discounts given out to travel agents! Honest, the airlines haven't done this in many years... hotels, maybe you could finagle a discount, but often there are other better deals being offered to the public. What rare rare agent offers there are are nearly impossible to take advatange of ....
Well, out of 6 luxury Caribbean resorts that I contacted recently regarding "travel agent rates"--I have gotten replies from 4. All four offered 50% off of rack rate, and only 2 of them attached a 3-night maximum to that. 'Big deal' you might say, one can usually find an even better deal than that just by doing some web crawling. Doesn't appear to be the case for these types of properties though--there just aren't any deals to be had (especially not at 50% off RR).