ASTA last week launched a video campaign to promote all that travel agents do to help consumers, and the group’s continuing effort to advocate on behalf of agents in Washington.

A new collaboration by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Facebook lets travelers check in for flights and obtain boarding passes through Facebook Messenger—and marks another step into the travel space by the social media giant.

Conde Nast Traveler today ran an interesting article that travel agents might want to share urging travelers not to exclude Istanbul from their itineraries.