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travel agency

private retailer or public service that provides tourism-related services to the public
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Summary

travel agency ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,523 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: business[2], tourism organization[3]
  • Commons category: Travel agencies[4]
  • Industry: tourism industry[5]
  • Said to be the same as: travel agency activities[6], travel agent[7]
  • Official website: https://www.tamilnadutourism.com/[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Travel agencies[9]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: shop=travel_agency[10]
  • Equivalent class: https://schema.org/TravelAgency[11]
  • Different from: Cestovní agentura[12], tour operator[13]
  • Merchant Category Code: 4722[14]
  • Typically sells: holiday trip[15]
  • P14692: Montpellier[16]

Why It Matters

travel agency has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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business China Youth Travel Service Lion Travel Service TUI Group

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_travel-agency_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{travel agency}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/travel-agency}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-18}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Tamilnadutourism · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.tamilnadutourism.com/
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Official website: https://www.tamilnadutourism.com/"
  2. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Montpellier
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 11w ago · Putnik · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → kelioniu-agentura
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: kelioniu-agentura"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008669-cestovni-kancelare
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0008669-cestovni-kancelare, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Industry → —
    Typically sells → holiday trip
    Industry → tourism industry
    Said to be the same as → travel agency activities, travel agent
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 3915, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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