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Government Prohibition on Using Commercial Travel Agents. Aug-:.:t
9, 1978. 7 pp.
Testimony before the Hcuse Committee cn Small Musiness: Special
Small Business Problems Subcommittee; by Donald J. Horan, Deputy
Director, Loqistics and Communications Eiv.
Contact: Logistics and Communications £iv.
Congressional Relevance: House Ccmmittee cu Small Eusiness:
Special Small 3usiness Problems Sutcomaittee.
Authority: International Air Transportation Fa' Competitive
Practices Act of 1974. Fly America Act.
A recent GAO review on the po©hibition against using
commercial travel agents to arrange transportation for
Government employees traveling on off.cial buainess included a
history of the prohibition and provided infcrmaticn on the
yearly expenditures of Federal departients and agencies
resulting from the prohibition. Responses to a guestionnaire
indicated that 1,526 Government employees spend, on the average,
over 40% of their time an travel agent-type functions at an
estimated cost of about $8.8 million. Agencies were asked to
discuss a proposed system for involving travel agents in
Government business. Eleven agencies were cpposed to the
proposal, and 14 had no objections. If the proposal could be
aoopted, rome problems viuld be eliminated tut raJ Frcblems,
such as potential increased fares and bow to deal with thousands
of competing travel agents, aould have to ke resolved. Nc
conclusion was drawn as to the desirability of changing the
present prohibition, but there were nc objecticns to doing so on
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