When a CBS MoneyWatch blogger included travel agents on a list of 10 endangered jobs, Travel Market Report knew readers could prove her wrong. So here’s proof, in the words of your colleagues, that retail travel sellers are alive and well –– and in no danger of disappearing any time soon.

Within hours of the resignation of Egyptian President Mubarak, El Sayed Khalifa, consul-director of the Egyptian Tourist Authority in New York, expressed his confidence that Americans will travel to Egypt “in bigger numbers” in the coming months – “because we share now the same values, freedom and democracy.”

Two river cruise companies this week announced expansion plans in response to increased demand from consumers for experiential vacations and from travel agents for commission-rich cruise products without NCFs. Avalon Waterways said it is upping the ante in river cruises with its new all-suite Avalon Panorama and fleet-wide enhancements designed to give its river ships the ocean cruise ambiance. And Viking River Cruises announced it will increase its capacity by 40% through 2013, with eight new river vessels and two total refurbishments in a $250 million commitment over the next three years.