:NPR : Traditional Travel Agents Seek to Compete with Net

Compete? He makes it sound like we’re destined for a museum, with little labels in Latin marking us out by subspecies, translated as in “Corporate Agent, var. SABRE2th Tigress.”

So far, I’m one of those niche people, but who knows for how long? And sometime next year, the travel interface will be all point and click, and my mad SABRE booking skillz will be about as useful as a velociraptor’s toenail in a display case.

Audio only – with perhaps a text transcript in 7 days.